Her scholarship sits at the intersection of queer theory, cultural studies, and disability studies, and focuses on the cultural politics of pain. Her dissertation, The Logic of Accounting: Pain, Promises and Prescription, traces the logic binding seemingly disparate cultural discourses of pain and outlines crip queer interventions into this logic. She has articles in Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television, The Feminist Wire, Disability Studies Quarterly, Crip Magazine, Somatechnics and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Patsavas is also a writer and producer on the forthcoming documentary film Code of the Freaks that examines crip culture’s response to Hollywood representations of disability.