Dr. Roybal specializes in Southwest Studies, nineteenth-century Chicanx and Latinx literature and history, and Cultural Studies. She teaches courses in literature, arts and culture, archival studies, Southwest/Borderlands history, and environmental justice. Dr. Roybal's book, Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960, was published by University of North Carolina Press in September 2017. In it, she argues that a feminist reframing and recovery of archives central to the territories lost by Mexico and won by the United States in the Mexican-American War expose the matrilineal dimensions of property ownership and herencia—inheritance, legacy, and heritage—and the resistance and negotiation by women of Spanish/Mexican descent after 1848. § Dr. Roybal is currently co-editing an edited collection with Dr. Bernadine Hernández on the life and works of Chicana author Ana Castillo, entitled New Transnational Latinx Perspectives on Ana Castillo. This edited collection seeks to demonstrate the theoretical capacity of Castillo’s work and the connections we can make through literature to larger cultural, political, and transnational concerns. The critical essays in the collection expand the discussion of Castillo’s work in a transnational Latinx context and from a Chicana feminist praxis to a global phenomenon. § Dr. Roybal’s other publications include: § “Hidden Histories: Gendered and Settler Colonial Landscapes in Northern California,” Chicana/Latina Studies. (Forthcoming: Vol 18 No 1, Fall 2018) § “Deep Roots in Community: Querencia and The Salt of the Earth,” in Querencia: Essays on the New Mexico Homeland. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. (Under Review. Expected publication date: Fall 2019). § “Rawhide Tough & Lonely: Eva Antonia Takes the Reins.” Southwestern American Literature. 40.1 (Fall 2014): 31-46. Print. § “Pushing the Boundaries of Border Subjectivity, Autobiography, and Camp-Rasquachismo.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. 38.2 (Fall 2013): 71-94. Print. § “History, Memory, and Ambivalence: Testimonio as Alternative Archive.” Culture, Theory and Critique 53.2 (2012): 215-232. Print.