He has developed teaching and research interests in a wide range of areas related to Latin American literature and film, with particular emphasis on Mexico during the mid-twentieth century. Much of his recent scholarship has examined Mexican author Juan Rulfo’s connection to the visual image in film. Weatherford’s translation of Rulfo’s second novel, El gallo de oro (The Golden Cockerel and Other Writings) will appear this coming May (Deep Vellum Publishing), the centennial of that author’s birth.