His research interests include narrative cinema, literary criticism and theory, and social and political theories. His first book, The Dismembered Community, was published in 2009 by University of Delaware Press. His eBook on Joshua Oppenheimer’s testimonial documentary on the Indonesian genocide of 1965-66, The Act of Killing, appeared in 2014 from WLU Press under the title The Dialectic of Truth and Fiction. He is currently working on a book-length project on allegories of the end of capitalism in contemporary film.