He is also an affiliated faculty with the Department of Performance Studies, Disability Council, and Asian/Pacific/American Institute. Before joining NYU, Yapp was an Assistant Professor and Mellon-Chau Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and Women's Studies at Pomona College and lectured at San Francisco State University. His research broadly engages the theoretical and methodological implications of queer, feminist, disability, and critical race studies for questions regarding the state. His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in American Quarterly, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, and Journal of Visual Culture, amongst other venues. He is also part of the Social Text editorial collective.