Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Interactional Competence

Contemporary Latin American Film, Literatures, and Cultures

Specialty Hispanic Linguistics with emphasis on sociolinguistics. Research in learning strategies with authentic-language audiovisual materials

Contemporary Mexican and Latin American Literature and Culture, Cultural memory, Cultural complexes, Historical fiction in literature, film and television, Mexican television and film female directors, Feminist Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Nature and Culture, Environmental Humanities.

Post-Franco Spanish literature, twentieth and twenty-first century peninsular Spanish literature and film. 

20th and 21st Century Hispano American Narrative and Drama. Chilean Narrative, Drama and Film. Hispanic Film.