Professor Claire Emilie Martin has been teaching at CSULB since 1988 a wide range of courses from composition and Spanish for heritage speakers to colonial literature, Latin American civilization and Twentieth-century Spanish American narrative. In the fall of 2004, she will be teaching a new course, "Nation Building and Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America".

She has published: Alejo Carpentier y las crónicas de Indias: orígenes de una escritura americana. Hanover, N.H.: Ediciones del Norte, 1995, and more recently she co-authored (with Cristina Arambel Guiñazú) a two-volume work on nineteenth-century Spanish American women writers, Las mujeres toman la palabra: escritura femenina hispanoamericana del siglo XIX. Volumen I and Antología de escritoras hispanoamericanas del siglo XIX. Vol II. Frankfurt-Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2001.

Since 1996, she has been contributing editor of "20th Century Prose Fiction in Argentina" in the Handbook of Latin American Studies, Volumes 56, 58, 60, 62 for the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.