His research focuses in the areas of African Diasporic literatures and cultures, LGBT and queer studies, trauma studies, urban studies, and critical HIV/AIDS studies. His current book project, tentatively titled, Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence, is an interdisciplinary study of black gay cultural movements in Washington, D.C., and New York City during the early era of the AIDS epidemic. Bost comes to SFSU from the University of Maryland-College Park, where he earned his Ph.D. in American Studies.