She writes on postcolonial, diasporic and queer cultures. Her work draws on theories of trauma, affect and mourning to think through how narrative and art articulate the affective residues of history and provide the conditions for re-imagining political futures. Her book, The better story: Lessons from postcolonial monsters and queer affects (under review with SUNY Press), is a conversation among postcolonial studies, queer theory and psychoanalysis. With a focus on the Middle East, it considers the dynamics of political conflict, the histories and subjectivities they produce, and what it means to make an ethical relationship to the terrorized and terrorizing bodies that conflict produces.