I am currently working on three monograph projects. The first, A Multiplicity of Pleasures: Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction's Pocket Publics, documents my ethnographic fieldwork in both physical and digital spaces for the circulation of slash fan fiction, from 2001-2007. This is a critical period for the transition of fan fiction from a predominantly print to a predominantly digital phenomenon. This work explores the identities, relationships, and possibilities for imagination fostered by slash communities and spaces, with a focus on the digital transformation, and the collective construction of a "pocket public" wherein radical pleasures may be protected within public space.

My second monograph project Remixed Eugenics: Race, Reproduction, and Genetic Technology, develops the concept of eugenic pastiche to explain the growing prominence of eugenic thinking in contemporary discourse both popular and political. The third monograph project, Worldbuilding from the Outside In: Transformative Fan Works as Amateur Transmedia, asks how academic analysis of transmedia narration may require reevaluation if amateur works are considered paradigmatic rather than ancillary. As a result, the chapters of this project analyze the way in which fan authors and creators construct unique forms of narrative ontology, seriality, and multi-modality partly because they are free to create beyond the economic and cultural strictures of the media industry.

In addition to these main projects, I also participate in several international collaborations:

-The international Fairy Tale Cultures and Media Today network for collaborative, interdisciplinary scholarship on the legacy of fairy tales and folk storytelling cultures in modern digital environments. 

-The Transmedia Serial Narration international seminar and scholarly network, which examines the intersection of the serial storytelling form with transmedia worldbuilding

Further, my research interests and publication history also center on the digital economy and finance, as well as critical race, feminist, and queer theory. My work in the area of economics is particularly invested in the use of political economy and critical legal studies to understand transformations in copyright law, financialization, and the concepts of property, authorship, labor, and ownership in an era of immaterial commodities. In terms of representational politics, I am especially interested in opening new spaces for imagining and articulating sexual identities, and understanding the overlapping structures of race, gender, and sexuality in the context of modern resurgent fascism and digitization.