She holds a Bachelor's degree in Hispanic Language and Literature (FES Acatlán - UNAM); a Master's degree and a PhD in Modern Letters from the Universidad Iberoamericana. She is a Senior Researcher and Director of the North American Research Center; level D of PRIDE, member of the SNI and the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Specialist in the area of Canadian cultural studies and attached to the research lines of Migration and Borders, and Identities and cultural processes. Her most recent publications are: “Instructions for getting out of limbo. Arbitrary audiovisual representations of borders in North America” (2016), “Canada and Mexico under the Harper era: reconsidering trust”, with Silvia Núñez and Oliver Santín (2017) and “Cine y frontera. Unlimited territories of the gaze”, with Juan Carlos Vargas (2014), in addition to the first on Canadian culture in Mexico, “Sentenced to boredom? Canadian cultural topics“(1996). She is a Professor at the Colegio de Letras Hispánicas (FFyL - UNAM) and at the Graduate School of Political and Social Sciences.