My dissertation traces the emergence of modern heterosexual identity in American fiction and film, 1890-1930. This research has informed my first book, Conflict of Interest, which is forthcoming from Liveright (US) and Hutchinson Heinemann (UK) in 2027. Other primary areas of research include visual art, trans studies, and psychoanalysis. 

I have given invited talks at diffrakt: zentrum für theoretische peripherie, the Estonian Academy of Arts, the Institute for Contemporary Art London, Kunstinstituut Melly, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Oxford. In summer 2021 I taught a seminar on histories and cultures of the global AIDS crisis to high school students as part of the Penn Summer Program.