Her research focuses on queer and gender studies, and the histories of science, medicine, and technology. Her publications include two monographs: Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body, from 1700 to the Present (Liverpool UP, 2011; paperback 2013) and Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction (Palgrave 2009). She is currently working on two monographs: A Critical Genealogy of Normality, and Technology and the Training of the Senses. She is also currently involved in a series of collaborative projects with SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in the Biological Arts at UWA.