• 20th-century Portuguese literature
• The myth of Antigone in 20th-century Portuguese drama
• Feminist criticism

• Hispanic Cultural Studies
• Cultural Memory in Romance Cultures

•Issues of race, nation and gender in the media in Cuba, and Spain
•Cuban press and journalists of the 20th Century

• 19th and early 20th century Spanish literature and culture, with a particular interest in gender
• PhD project was on saintliness in Spanish novels published between 1870 and 1915
• Appropriations of the figure of Teresa of Avila in ideological discourses from 19th and early 20th century Spain

• Peruvian cinema and political violence
• Issues of world / transnational cinemas
• Cinema and memory

• Latin American literature

• Contemporary women writers
• Carmen Martin Gaite

• Twentieth century Mexican literature
• Mexican history
• Literature of the US-Mexico borderlands
• Theory of the canon
• Gender studies

• Spanish American theatre
• Theatre in translation and performance
• Cultural Studies
• Gender

• 20th-century Brazilian literature and culture
• Brazilian Modernist poetry, specifically João Cabral de Melo Neto
• Contemporary Brazilian prose fiction
• African literature in Portuguese

• Exile and identity in Latin American women’s fiction
• Chile

• Women’s studies
• Nationalism and gender
• Popular music, cinema, and memory/amnesia

• Chilean and Argentinian Poetics
• Gender Studies
• Latin American films
• Film Studies

• Utopias in Brazilian literature
• Brazilian poetry and poetics from 1880 – 1950
• Language pedagogies, with particular reference to materials development, the use of interlanguage and historical linguistics in language teaching
• Re-readings of Portuguese canonic authors
• Some contemporary Portuguese society and culture

• Medieval epic and historiography
• Golden Age theatre
• Collective identity

• Portuguese language and literature
• Comparative and inter-arts studies / feminist criticism
• Lusophone poets project

• Lesbian identity in contemporary Spanish culture
• Spanish film
• Hispanic detective fiction
• Environment and ecology
• Web-based language acquisition

• Portuguese linguistics and language learning methodology
• Lusophone cultural studies
• Gender in lusophone cultural studies and sociolinguistics

•Second Language Acquisition: Learning Strategies in Second Language Acquisition
•The year abroad experience

• Spanish 20th and 21st century poetry, in particular Luis Cernuda, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Luis García Montero, Esther Zarraluki, María Antonia Ortega and Almudena Guzmán

• Spanish and Latin-American cinema
• Basque nationalism

• Spain and Latin America
• 19th and 20th century
• Literature, culture, and history
• AHRC Gendering Latin American Independence project

• Visual arts
• Spanish and Latin American Film
• Chilean and Cuban cultural studies

• Gender issues in Hispanic literature and cinema
• Hispanic women writers

• Latin-American Medical Discourse, 20th century
• Cancer; Psychiatry; Female body; Eugenic ideas
• Gender and Welfare
• Social representations of motherhood (religion, journalism, literature and visual culture)

• Cultural studies
• Ethnography
• Latin American studies

• Managing editor, Tamesis

• Contemporary Mexican literature and film
• Chicano and Latino Narrative
• Feminist Critical Theory
• Latin American Visual Culture

• Latin American literature
• 19th-century Peruvian literature

• Popular culture of Latin America and Spain
• Latin American and Spanish minorities' issues
• Educational psychology
• Curriculum and module design
• Information technology in language teaching and learning
• Intercultural competence in language learning and teaching

• 20th century Spanish poetry
• Latin American women poets and novelists

• Latin American literature and film
• Studies of memory
• Dictatorship
• The body

• Cultural Politics in Spain, 1898 – 1939
• Spanish Cinema
• Politics of Migration in Contemporary Spain
• Spanish Civil War and International Brigades

• Spanish Cultural Studies
• Gender Studies and Feminist Theory
• Spanish Women’s Writing
• Spanish Civil War
• Spanish Transition
• Testimonial Literature
• History and memory

• Twentieth-century Chilean literature, culture and history, with a particular interest in the work of Diamela Eltit
• Contemporary Latin American fiction, with a particular interest in gender
• The relation between contemporary Latin American and Western feminist and cultural theory

• Gender and cultural memory
• Oral history
• Women’s political subjectivities in Spain and Latin America
• Gender and political violence
• Women and Basque nationalism
• Sexuality and the Cuban revolution

• Medieval Iberian literature and culture; esp. female voice
• Lyric in narrative contexts
• Don Juan Manuel & Juan Ruiz
• Medieval Iberian drama
• Humour, ideology, pollution, and power

• Spanish Cinema
• 20th century/contemporary Spanish narrative and theatre
• Ramón Gómez de la Serna and the Avant-Garde culture
• Memory and History in Cinema and Literature
• Representations of motherhood in Spanish literature and cinema

• Galician Studies
• Postnational, Transnational, Migration and Diaspora Studies
• Hispanic Liverpool
• Spain’s women intellectuals, 1890-1920 (website)
• Literary translation – from Galician, Spanish, and Polish

• The Cuban novel of the 1940s and 50s
• The Spanish novel of the 1940s and 50s
• Cross-cultural influences in literature between Spain and Cuba
• 20th century Latin American literature
• Adaptation of the Latin American novel to film
• Theories of spatiality in literature and film

• Gender, Health & Development
• Women’s Organising and Social Movements in Latin America
• Qualitative Methodologies

• Translation and ideology
• Cultural and postcolonial aspects of translation
• Translation of minority languages
• Translation of children’s literature

• Cuban culture and cultural policy
• Self-writing in theory and practice
• Latin American women’s writing
• Theories of reading and reception

• Postwar Galician literature
• Alvaro Cunqueiro
• Canon formation
• Contemporary Galician narrative

• 19th and 20th-century Brazilian and Portuguese literature
• Comparative literature
• Paula Rego

• Memory and exile in modern Spanish poetry and prose
• Luis Cernuda
• Border-crossing in literature

• Modern and contemporary Spanish theatre with special emphasis on women playwrights
• Spanish language methodology and intercultural pedagogy
• EBL and interdisciplinarity

• Hispanic Cultural Studies
• The interface of law and culture
• Critical theory
• The media, gender, and popular culture

• Gender
• Cultural studies
• Modern and contemporary literature
• Avant-garde culture
• Culture and modernity
• Republican exile
• Memory
• Spanish Transition and culture

• Latin American women’s writing

• Cross-cultural voyaging to the Atlantic and the Pacific
• Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Literature and Culture (especially women writers)
• Early Modern Colonialism
• History of Cartography
• Spanish and European Film and Media Studies

• Latin American Culture
• Colombian film, painting and literature
• Laura Restrepo (author)
• Débora Arango (painter)
• Gender Studies
• Visual cultures and theories
• Documentary film
• Popular culture

• Literary representations of the “post-colonial exotic” in Mozambican and Portuguese literatures (Paulina Chiziane and Lidia Jorge)
• Postcolonial and feminist studies in Portuguese-speaking contexts

• Argentine women’s movements

• Contemporary Spanish Poetry
• Spanish Cultural Studies
• Spanish Women Writers
• Spanish Film
• Literary theory

• Latin American women’s writing, with a particular interest in Mexican women’s writing

• Gender and literary historiography
• Translation and reception studies
• Gender, nationalism and sexualities
• Contemporary Galician literature
• Co-editor of (Galicia21: Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies)

• Censorship
• Cultural studies
• Postwar novel by women
• PhD Project on ‘The censorship of women’s literary production in Franco’s Spain'

• Seventeenth-century women writers: in particular, María de Zayas, Ana Caro, Leonor de Meneses, and Mariana de Carvajal
• Cervantes
• Evolution of the Spanish novella
• Portrayals of women in the ‘comedia’
• ‘Comedias de santos’
• PhD project was on women’s interrelationships in the prose works of María de Zayas

• Post-war novel by women
• Popular literature (novelas rosa)
• Twentieth-century Spain
• Comparative literature

• Portuguese literature
• Uruguyan literature

• 20th century Latin American literature and film
• Politics and literature

• Cultural studies
• 20th-century Spanish literature

• Women writers and images of women
• Genre and gender
• Canon-formation
• Personal and national identities

• Popular music
• National identity
• Gender and sexuality

• Latin-American travel writing
• Cyberculture Latin-American Cyberculture project
• Chicano studies

• Mythologies of the feminine
• Gender and representations of self in poetry and visual art of the avant-garde and Generation of 1927
• Mamory and the Spanish civil

• Contemporary women’s narrative, especially Belén Gopegui
• The Spanish transition to democracy and post-Franco Spain

• Latin American Literature and Cultural History
• PhD thesis on narratives of nation-building in the Argentine radionovela of the 1930s

• Aragonese popular music
• River Ebro as an aspect of Aragonese nationalism
• The role of intellectuals in Aragonese nationalism

• Contemporary Portuguese Literature (Women's literature)
• Lusophone Literature and History (in particular, Angola)
• Comparative literature and Critical theory
• Creative writing

• Contemporary Spanish and Portuguese Fiction

• Translation Studies (cultural and intersemiotic translation, manipulation of literature through translation, intercultural communication)
• Latin American colonial literature

• Jorge Luis Borges, especially Kafka’s influence on Borges

• Migration
• The city
• Language acquisition
• intercultural competence

• Modernism
• Visual arts
• Cinema
• Women’s studies

• History of women in photography
• The photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero
• Agnes Beatrice Warburg

• Spanish cinema
• Gender and Ethnicity in Spain
• Cultural studies, Postcolonial Studies, Transcultural Studies
• Member of AHRC ‘Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe’
• Coordinator Project www.justmessaging.com involving the Saharawi refugee camps (SW Algeria)

• Poetry translation
• Twentieth century and contemporary Mexican and Central American poetry

• Fifteenth and early sixteenth century literature with special reference to Celestina, cancionero poetry, and the sentimental romance

• Lusophone African countries

• 19c and 20c Spanish literature, culture and intellectual history
• Psychoanalysis; history of medicine; history of sexuality and sexual reform; eugenics
• Cultural exchange
• Unamuno
• Hildegart Rodríguez

• Textual Criticism
• Genetic Criticism
• Bibliographic Studies
• Literary Theory
• Translation Studies
• 19th Century Brazilian Literature
• 19th Century Book History, Press and Fashion History

•Latin American women’s writing, with a particular interest in Angel, Boullosa, Esquivel, Gambaro and Goródischer
• Latin American popular culture, with a particular interest in popular music and popular fiction
• Latin American cinema, with a particular interest in the films of María Luisa Bemberg
• Issues in postcolonial studies
• Latin-American Cyberculture project
• Leverhulme project: Gender and Women’s Writing in Latin America

• Latin American literature
• Mexican Studies with a particular interest in the representation of conflict in twentieth century Mexican film and literature
• Gender studies and queer theory with particular attention to how boundaries are constantly being erased and reinvented
• Latin American Film. Editor of journal Film and Film Culture
• New media and technology. Also the use of technology in the classroom

• Political participation and representation
• Spanish politics and society

• Spanish Cinema
• Alex de la Iglesia
• Women Filmmakers in Spain

• Fifteenth century Castilian and Catalan literature
• Marian doctrine and liturgy
• Marian literature
• Art and literature in the fifteenth century

• Representations of the body in the late 20th-century Spanish-American historical novel
• Modern Mexican fiction

• Cultural history and memory in Portuguese speaking countries
• Traumatic memory

• The implications of gender on the questions of authorship and literary self-consciousness in and after the transition from manuscript to print
• Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches (book history, sociology, and pragmatics)
• Women’s role in European print culture
• Currently writing up my PhD thesis: “Women and the Republic of Letters in the Iberian World, 1447-1700: An Interdisciplinary Approach,” which highlights and examines the rise of women as authors – whether they wrote and published in Catalan, Portuguese, or Spanish

• Modern and contemporary peninsular literature and culture especially the avant-garde
• Experimental poetry
• Catalan studies

• Spanish American women’s writing and US Hispanic Literatures
• 20th century/contemporary Spanish narrative
• postcolonial, ethnic and immigrant literatures
• Life-writing, contemporary detective fiction, and literature for children and young adults

• Post-war Spanish fiction
• Short fiction
• Urban fiction
• Novels and short stories of Carmen Laforet
• Literature and aesthetics

• Portuguese Language, Literature, History and Culture
• Contemporary Portuguese and Mozambican women's writing, especially the work of Maria Gabriela Llansol and Lília Momplé
• Storytelling and virtual orality
• Maternal genealogies
• Literary representations of the Brazilian favela

• Spanish political journalism during late Francoism

• Medieval Queenship; particularly Queens Regnant and their Kings Consort
• The research for my thesis is based on the Queens (Regnant) of Navarra in the Late Medieval/Early Modern period

• Lorca
• Don Juan
• Spanish cultural studies

• La novela de la selva
• Colombian literature
• Literature of the tropics (American Tropics Project)

• Performativity
• Flamenco performance