Her research and teaching areas include contemporary American literature, culture, and film; environmental humanities/ecocriticism; and gender and sexuality studies. Her first book, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination, won the 2015 Book Award from the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. She is currently working on her second book, Bad Environmentalism, which considers irreverent and anti-sentimental expressions of environment concern in contemporary literature, film, TV and performance art.