Southwest, inter-American studies, and immigration studies. She is the author of Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States, which explores cultural productions about the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico in the context of inter-American studies and theories of globalization. She has published several essays on cross-ethnic approaches to immigration, border theory, literatures of the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders, and on the internationalization of American studies. She is currently working on a project on comparative immigration and transnational adoption to the Americas. return to top