His research is in the field of science fiction and gender. He has published articles and reviews in Extrapolation, Utopian Studies, Femspec, Science Fiction Studies, and Americana on topics such as Joanna Russ’s The Female Man, chicana feminist aesthetics and identity, and Philip K. Dick. He is a former president of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), and won its Mary Kay Bray Award in 2010. He was also the media reviews editor for the SFRA Review from 2008-2014. He served as a juror for the 2015 Philip K. Dick Award. He is a co-editor of SF 101: A Guide to Teaching and Studying Science Fiction (2014) and a forthcoming volume of feminist epistemology and science fiction (Palgrave).