​My research explores race and disability (and their intersections). I take seriously Sami Schalk's contention that Black thinkers of disability have not been recognized by the white-dominant disability rights movement: I address such an omission by foregrounding the writings and activism of feminists of color, such as Audre Lorde and Saidiya Hartman. I engage with these writers and activists as theorists of disability in their own right.

My research analyses contemporary American literature and art, with a particular focus on life writing and popular music. I employ recent formalist approaches developed by critics like Anna Kornbluh, Caroline Levine, and Sianne Ngai that theorize aesthetic forms as essential to understanding the structures of social and political life. I follow these critics in tracing how forms move between or mediate art and society, linking the aesthetic and the social.

My research works toward imagining a coalitional politics ​grounded in the experience and expertise of marginalized peoples. I explore the varied forms that solidarity takes: from collectivities that organize beyond the family to the collaborative labor between artists. I turn to aesthetics to better understand how these emergent social relations have been and can be realized.