His research is primarily centered on issues of gender, subjectivity and the urban space in contemporary Hispanic narratives. A secondary area of research concerns the cinematic production of Spain and Latin America. He has published articles in such journals as Hispanic Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, and Symposium, in addition to several chapters in critical editions. He has edited journal issues on urban studies, masculinity, and cinema, and is the author of two books: The Body as Capital: Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction (Arizona, 2015), and New Maricón Cinema: On Outing and Feeling Latin America (Texas, 2016). He is currently researching the aesthetics and politics of superheroes in Latin American moving images.