Herrera teaches Victorian and multiethnic literature with a special concentration in colonial, post-colonial, and Diaspora literature and theory at the State University of New York College at Fredonia. She is currently working on a project that focuses on the Cuban Diaspora.

"To date, no [other] book representing such a wide and extensive sampling of views and experiences of the Cuban Diaspora exists." -Isabel Alvarez Borland, author of Cuban-American Narratives of Exile: From Person to Persona

To date, no [other] book representing such a wide and extensive sampling of views and experiences of the Cuban Diaspora exists. (Isabel Alvarez Borland, author of Cuban-American Narratives of Exile: From Person to Persona)