He works at the interstices of Performance Studies and Cultural Studies, focusing in particular on the constitutive role of violence, mortality, and pain in the production of political subjectivity. He is the co-editor, with Jisha Menon, of Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict (Palgrave-Macmillan) and the author of 'So Much Wasted': Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance (forthcoming, Duke University Press), as well as numerous journal essays and anthology chapters. His works-in-progress include a mixed-genre book on illness and reminiscence, and an historical study of the inter-relationships between architecture, ophthalmology, and empathy.