Her research focuses on two primary areas: HIV/AIDS and cultural production (largely in relation to the AIDS crisis experienced by gay men in the west during the 1980s and 90s) and the cultural production and social utility of young women's sexuality and sexual health, primarily through the figure of the bad girl and through HPV public health discourse. She is also interested in the representation of gender, sexuality, and race in film and media. Her co-written book, Zero Patience, was published in 2011 as part of the Arsenal Pulp Press Queer Film Classics series. She is currently revising a book, Affective Traces: AIDS Cultural Production and the Legacy of the Holocaust, for UBC Press.