Latin American Theater, emphasis on the transmission of history and memory in the theater of the Southern Cone. Human rights and post-dictatorial literatures and, Staging in the Academe.
Research Interests: nationalism and national identity (with a particular focus on Latin American cases); sociology of religion; sociology of literature; Venezuelan politics and society
Interim Program Head, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (2012-2013)
The Novel in Spain and Latin America; Literary Naturalism: Women Writers of Spain, Latin America, and the U.S.; Feminist Theory; Immigrant Populations in the U.S.