[1] She left Dartmouth in 2009 to create and develop the Spanish MFA at the University of Iowa that was inaugurated on 2011.
She has published two scholarly books on comics: El Comic Hispánico (Cátedra, 2003),Diez ensayos para pensar el cómic (Eolas, 2017), and a critical monograph on Chris Ware (Sinsentido 2005), a youth novel "El hombre de los dos corazones" (Anaya, 2009) and nine books of poetry, and was a recipient of the Adonais and Fray Luis de Leon awards for poetry.
In January 2020 she won the Nadal Award in Spain for her novel El mapa de los afectos.
She has served as curator for four comics exhibitions and is the author of the bilingual catalogue Fantagraphics creadores del canon (2003).
Book in Spanish by Reino de Cordelia (2013; 2 Edic 2014) publisher:http://www.reinodecordelia.es/libro.php?id=124 trailer; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwgwyO-0smE