Her research broadly centers on technology and social media in relation to art, identity, politics, and education. More specifically, her current book project, Media Epidemics: Viral Structures in Literature and New Media, addresses the role of digital media as it circulates outside of broadcast paradigms and empowers or oppresses subjects in network society. She also has multiple research projects in progress on the topic of gendered identity and digital media, including her blog The Spiral Dance (http://thespiraldance.wordpress.com). Knight is a reviewer for Digital Humanities Quarterly, has curated for In Media Res, and has multiple entries in the forthcoming Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Humanities. She can be found on Twitter as @purplekimchi.