He is the author of Like Andy Warhol (University of Chicago Press) and Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism (Harvard University Press). Flatley has authored numerous articles that appear in New Literary History, Criticism, and Afterall, among others. He has co-edited two volumes of Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts and Pop Out: Queer Warhol (Duke University Press).