She is author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908–1934 (Rutgers University Press, 2016), and she coedited Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space (Indiana University Press, 2014), winner of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies award for best edited collection, and Unwatchable (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). She is currently researching the history of trans-made film in the United States and Canada.