​My research explores race and disability (and their varied intersections). I take seriously the 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, treating these thinkers 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. In my work, I trace how forms (which I define broadly as any arrangements of elements) mediate (or travel between) art and society, linking the aesthetic and the social. I thereby theorize aesthetic forms as essential to understanding the structures of social and political life. 

My research works toward imagining a coalitional politics ​grounded in the experience and expertise of marginalized peoples. I turn to aesthetics to better understand which forms afford (or allow for) social solidarity. I explore the varied forms that solidarity takes: from collectivities that organize beyond the family to the collaborative labor between artists.

My research thus acts as a defense of humanistic inquiry, demonstrating that the humanities offer the tools necessary to understand and mobilize political power.