The content of her scholarship includes cross-disciplinary currents in feminist, island, performance, critical race, violence, and decolonial studies—particularly as applied to the Caribbean and the Puerto Rican diaspora. Drawing from Chicana, Puerto Rican and Indigenous Pacific Island studies, her dissertation, “Feminist Street Performances in Puerto Rico: Alternative Imaginaries of the Idealized National Body,” advances an island feminist perspective of two concepts: the idealized national body and alternative imaginaries. The idealized national body works as a gender paradigm intentionally inscribed on and experienced by female bodies—a body socially constructed and categorized as “female”. In the context of Puerto Rico, Rodríguez-Coss examines how the construction of the idealized national body has a direct connection to gender violence, and how alternative imaginaries in the form of feminist street performances operate by shifting heteropatriarchal narratives into alternative understandings of women’s multiple identities and experiences.Her research projects aim to advance transnational feminist pedagogies and praxes that can lead to new theories and actions addressing queer identities, discrimination and gender inequality specific to islands. In this sense, Rodríguez-Coss is a key collaborator with a group of international scholars from various disciplines—including sociology and political science—interested in advancing the emerging field of Island Feminist Studies.