Naomi is a scholar of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures and feminist and gender studies. Her current research project examines the ways that "queer" as an identity, theoretical frame, and verb has traveled and transformed throughout Latin America. Her May 2015 article “Sketches of Chica da Silva: Fictional, Filmic, and Choreographic Accounts” uses dance theory methodologies to connect the African diaspora in the Caribbean, Brazil, and Latin America. Her forthcoming article, “Publicando el placer: los gestos queer en la música y el performance de Kumbia Queers y Krudas Cubensi” look at two queer feminist musical performance groups and the ways that they question gay-rights rhetoric through queer of color critique and an emphasis on the pleasures of queer rather than the struggles of homosexuality.