His research interests include: the visual culture of disaster, cultural memory, theories of photography, new media and the portrait after WWII. Recent publications include: “Do Disappearing Monuments Simply Disappear? The Counter-Monument in Revision” in Future Anterior and “Two Kinds of Darkness: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Community of Cinema” in The Canadian Journal of Film Studies. His book, 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster, will be published by Indiana University Press in December of 2014.