She is the translator, from Spanish into English, of the first modern time-travel novel, The Anacronópete by Enrique Gaspar, edited by Michael Cooperson.

She has also written on book culture in the poetry of Lope de Vega and the Persian manuscript collection of the Fundación Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid.

She has published, in collaboration with Julie A. Cassiday, a study of the role of Persia in Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark, the procuress in the theatre of Mikhail Bulgakov, and the go-between figure in Leopoldo Alas' La Regenta.

Her other publications include a survey of Persian-language translations of Don Quijote and a critique of the mythologization of the singer Qamarulmuluk Vaziri.

She teaches all levels of Spanish language and a wide range of content courses on Spain as well topics in Comparative Literature.