Rosemary  specialises in modern Peninsular literature and culture but also lectures on the Golden Age. Research interests include verbal and visual reworkings of religious doctrine and traditional iconography; militarism and Holy War; Spain in Africa and post-colonial/post-occupation power play; myth, religion and migration in the configuration of community; Juan Marsé, Carmen Martín Gaite and Bernardo Atxaga.

Publications include a critical edition of José Luis Olaizola's La guerra del general Escobar (Manchester UP, 1993), Catholic Iconography in the novels of Juan Marsé (Boydell and Brewer, 2003) and Juan Marsé in the Dictionary of Literary Biography volume 322: Twentieth-Century Spanish Fiction Writers (forthcoming).