Her first book, Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and 21st Century Culture (Stanford, 2016) explores the ways that U.S. culturefrom novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movieshas responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. She is also working on two new projects. The first explores discourses of economic stagnation, from classical political economy to Keynesian economics, focusing especially on the return of this anxiety in the post-2008 moment. The second is a cultural history of the rise of microeconomics, taking the measure of microeconomics influence on cultural production and critical theory across the long-20th century.