Ph.D., University of Oregon
Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
Chair of the Graduate Committee of the Master's Program
Former Chair of Women's and Gender Studies
Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America (Houston: Texas A & M, 2006 [Rice University Press 1995]).
Más allá de la ciudad letrada: crónicas y espacios urbanos, co-edited with Boris Muñoz (Pittsburgh: Insitituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Biblioteca de América, 2003).
Misplaced Objects: Transatlantic Subject Matters and New Cultural Geographies in the Americas (forthcoming University of Texas Press).
Women and mestizaje in Latin/o American
Women writers of the borderlands
Roots of Feminism
The Borderlands: Latin/a Writing in the US
Women's Identities in Migration
