Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, she is a recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
[3] In 2017 she won the Victoria Urbano Academic Achievement Prize (Premio Victoria Urbano de Reconocimiento Académico), given by the International Association of Hispanic Women's Literature and Culture (Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica), for her work in Hispanic women's and gender studies.
She has also published a book of poetry, My House Remembers Me / Mi casa me recuerda, and a novella, The Labor of Longing, a Finalist for the Prize Americana for Prose and for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in both the Novella and Regional Fiction categories.
[5] An interview with Host Laurence Sledak was recorded for Unwanted Artists on 11 March 2015 and released on 7 April 2015.
[7] In 2021, she was awarded the Cátedra Miguel Delibes/Miguel Delibes Chair and was also elected President of the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas, the International Association of Galdós Scholars, for a three-year term.