Her research focuses primarily on narratives of capitalist modernity and modernization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America. Her first book, Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age (Minnesota, 2013), studied how literature represented the incorporation of the region’s economies into world markets at the end of the nineteenth century. She has also published a number of scholarly articles. Her current book project, tentatively titled Vanishing Horizons: Reading Rural Modernity in Latin America, looks at how literary fiction imagined the making and unmaking of rural worlds in the long twentieth century, particularly as the result of three historical transformations: the commercialization and mechanization of agriculture, urban out-migration, and land reform.