PhD (University of Pittsburgh), Research at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies (University of Notre Dame) and at the Centre for International Studies of the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She is a specialist in culture and literature in the Hispanic Caribbean and the author of El otro de Nuestra América: imaginarios frente a Estados Unidos en la República Dominicana y Cuba, Desde el fracaso: narrativas del Caribe insular hispano en el siglo XXI and the novel Penínsulas rotas. She has published several articles in journals such as Latin American Research Review, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, Sargasso: a journal of Caribbean literature, language & culture, América Latina hoy and Iberoamericana América Latina - España - Portugal.