Books

Group Work: How to Practice Queer and Trans Kinship, in progress.

Endless Love: Reading, Care, and the Work of Repair, cowritten with Elizabeth Freeman, in progress.

Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading. Palgrave, 2017.

Edited Collections

Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form, co-edited with Elizabeth Freeman. Duke University Press, 2022.

After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century, coedited with E.L. McCallum. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Special Issues

“Unaccountably Queer.” differences, 2024

“Lively Words: The Politics and Poetics of Experimental Writing.” College Literature, 2019

Articles

“Horny for Affect Theory,” Capacious, forthcoming.

“Gateless Gates in Trans Memoir,” Biography, 2024.

“Queer Metarelationality.” differences, 2024.

“Renarratable Bonds: Queer Relationality in the Scene of Redress.” differences, 2024.

“The Queerness of Character-Details.” MLQ, 2023.

“Graphic Attachment: Relational Formalism and Queer Dependency.” ASAP/J, 2023.

“Queer Narrative Theory and the Relationality of Form.” PMLA, 2021

“Sexual Disorientation: Queer Narratology and Affect Plots in New Narrative.” Textual Practice, 2021

“Slow Burn: Dreadful Kinship and the Weirdness of Heteronormativity in It Follows.” Studies in the Fantastic, 2020

 “The Promise of Experimental Writing.” College Literature, 2019

“Bad Reading: The Affective Relations of Queer Experimental Literature after AIDS.” GLQ, 2018

“Queer Exuberance: The Politics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson’s Visceral Fiction.” Mosaic, 2015

“Critical Immodesty and Other Grammars for Aesthetic Agency.” Stanford Arcade: Literature, Humanities, & the World, 2015

“‘Permeable We!’: Affect and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity in Eve Sedgwick’s A Dialogue onLove.” GLQ, 2012

Book Chapters

“Trans Kinship and the Problem of Passing,” Trans Modernisms, under contract.

“Genre Queer: On Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House,” Teaching Twenty-First Century Literature: Essays from the Classroom, under contract

“Foreword: Genre Flaunting and the Joy of Feminist Collaboration.” Reading Postures: On Close Reading, Feminism, and the Academy by Erica Delsandro and Jennifer Mitchell, forthcoming.

“Queer Formalism.” The Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer and Trans* Narrative Studies, 2025.

“Geometric Kinship: Sensuous Abstraction and the Accumulation of Forms in Black Queer Kinaesthetics.” Contemporary Queer Modernisms, 2025

“The Pleasures of Reading Camp.” The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature, 2024

“Affect and Aesthetics.” Routledge Companion to Literature and Politics, 2023

“Kincoherence / Kin-aesthetics / Kinematics,” with Elizabeth Freeman. Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form, 2022

“How Did It Come to This?: Talking Kinship with Kath Weston,” with Kath Weston and Elizabeth Freeman. Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form, 2022

“Inchoate Kinship: Psychoanalytic Narrative and the Performance of Queer Belonging in Are You My Mother?” The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In, 2020

“Thinking Sideways, or An Untoward Genealogy of Queer Reading,” with E.L. McCallum. After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century, 2019

“Literature in an Age of Plague: The AIDS Epidemic.” American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990, 2018

Public Writing

“Queer Narrative Lines: A Conversation with Judith Butler,” differences, 2024

“What Constitutes a Family? Don’t Ask Conservatives,” with Elizabeth Freeman, The Nation, 2022

“Queer Theory Now and the Pleasure of Movement,” with E.L. McCallum, FifteenEightyFour, 2019

Book Reviews

Review of Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment, edited by Scott Herring and Lee Wallace, American Literary History, 2023

“From Rogue Circulation to Queer Novel.” Review of Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel by Natasha Hurley, GLQ, 2019

Review of Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission by Kevin Ohi, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2018

Review of Education Out of Bounds: Reimagining Cultural Studies in a Posthuman Age by Tyson E. Lewis and Richard Kahn, symplokē, 2012

“How to Do History with Pleasure.” Review of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories by Elizabeth Freeman, Postmodern Culture, 2011

Review of Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race andSexuality by Dwight A. McBride, College Literature, 2006

Interviews

“Neopronouns and It Pronouns,” Queer Lit Podcast, hosted by Lena Mattheis, 2026

“Queer Kinship,” New Books Network, hosted by Sohini Chatterjee, 2022

“Queer Kinship,” Queer Lit Podcast, hosted by Lena Mattheis, 2022.

Recorded Talks

“Queer Theory for Everybody,” Keynote for Peter DiNardo ‘68 and Judith Waring Research Award, 2025