Milian teaches courses on U.S. Latina/o cultural productions, comparative African American and U.S. Latina/o epistemologies, Central American literature, and critical race studies in the Americas. Among her research interests are approaches to mestizaje and creolization, transnational identities and cultural representations in new world postcolonial studies, with an emphasis on migration, the malaise of alienation, and citizenship. Milian is currently working on a book that remaps how double consciousness, color-lines, and the borderlands are deployed by Africana, Chicana/o, and Latina/o subjects. At the same time, she is working on a new theoretical grammar that explores the relationship between (Africana) blackness and (Latina/o) brownness, their intersections, overlapping discourses, and differences.