[2] Although her writing specialty is the essay,[4] her books include Visión de Reyes (1990), El espacio deshabitado.
[2][4] She has also written on Mexican women writers of the 20th century such as Nellie Campobello, Josefina Vicens, Elena Garro, Rosario Castellanos and Maria Luisa Puga, focusing on their essays, journalism, poetry and more.
While the topics are of interests to academics as well, she writes in a direct style making the material accessible to the general public.
[1][5] She is also a member of Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Mondes Ibériques Contemporains in France.
[2] Her son is Rodrigo Rivera Castro, a Mexican researcher in artificial intelligence and machine learning.