Her research interests include Iberian Studies and Luso-Hispanic relations, Transatlantic and Transnational Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese imperial discourse and memory. Her current project is a comparative analysis of the literatures of the nineteenth-century Spanish and Portuguese empires, and examines the imperial ideologies and corresponding colonial practices that accompany their respective turns to the Antilles and Africa as new sources of wealth and prestige after the Age of Atlantic Revolutions.