Her first book, Ill Effects: Television, At Home in the Hospital is under contract with Duke University Press. Her second book project examines home, nation, and disaster in relation to Hurricane Katrina. She has published articles in the Journal of Television and New Media and Cultural Studies and is a board member of Console-ing Passions. For the present article, she received support from a PSC-CUNY research grant. She lived in New Orleans from 1997-2007.