My research focuses on the intersection of media industries and the production of gender and sexuality. In my dissertation project Sometimes We Screw Things Up for the Better: The Shifting Discourses of Gender and Sexuality in the Arrowverse I theorize the economic, industrial, and production tensions between broadcast television and Netflix as being a materializing force in the increasingly queer portrayals of gender and sexuality in the Arrowverse and their contraction. Central to this is how viewers are both counted and thought of by Netflix and the CW. To this end I produce data visualizations juxtaposing traditional Neilsen ratings with Netflix's own ratings system of the three Arrowverse series (Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, Batwoman) to better illustrate the contradictions and overlap between broadcast television and subscriber funded streaming. It is the contradictory views and economic valuation of audience by CW and Netflix that lead to a shift in the representational content of the Arrowverse as these shows now must maintain two separate audiences. By treating industry as more than a benign economic base I challenge and create new case studies for understanding the materialization of gender and sexuality. 

On a smaller scale I have a forthcoming journal article that considers the failure of asexualities critical theory to consider and study its own media production by looking at the portrayal of asexuality in Manga.