Her research interests are comparative literature, cultural studies, and inter-art semiotics. She has been a visiting scholar at Brown University and Harvard University and a visiting professor at Delhi University, Beijing Language and Culture University, and Kazakh National University. In 2007, she established the research program Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation (SIIM). Currently, she is on the Executive Committee of the European Network of Comparative Literary Studies and is part of the Association of Alumni of the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University. She is also an external evaluator for the EU’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) and Horizon 2020.