His research focuses in Francophone Studies, with a special interest in music, film and teaching reading at the intermediate level. His recent article “At the Edge of the Abyss: A Case for Teaching Race and National Identity in Victor Hugo’s Bug-Jargal” was accepted for publication by EAPSU Online. He has presented on topics related to Mexican and Chicano literature and the use of Chicano literary texts and songs in the language classroom. His first published article, “Unsettling Experiences: Transnational Dialogues of Necessity in Journal, Nationalité: immigré(e) and Paletitas de guayaba” (in Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s & Gender Studies) is available at:http://appweb.cortland.edu/ojs/index.php/Wagadu/issue/view/27.