Her work has appeared in Southwestern American Literature, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and Southern Literary Journal, and she is currently working on a book manuscript, which focuses on Chicana/o literature and culture of the twentieth-century from the perspective of critical regionalism. Her teaching pedagogy is interdisciplinary and focuses on twentieth-century American literature, regionalism, and Chicano/a cultural studies, with attention to identity formation and the politics of representation.