Her research and teaching focus on U.S. literature and culture, from the late-nineteenth century through the present, and critical approaches to the intersecting histories of U.S. citizenship, sexuality, and racial formation. Her courses cover a wide range of materials and topics–from the gothic novel of the late eighteenth century to early twentieth-century “realist” fictions, from 1960s gay and lesbian pulp fiction to the graphic novel and electronic literature, and from queer and feminist theories to legal studies and U.S. case law.