Freeman's doctoral dissertation was entitled The wedding complex: Sex norms and fantasy forms in modern American culture and was supervised by Dr. Lauren Berlant and Dr. Bill Brown.
[3] Freeman was an 'Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities' at the University of Pennsylvania, where she conducted research for her work on weddings and taught undergraduate English classes.
[4] Freeman researched subjects within Queer studies, which she personally believed was defined by sex while accepting a broad definition for the term - including those who had a different approach.
[6] Her article “Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood” received the 2014 Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature.
[8] According to a book review by Ry Montgommery at the London School of Economics, Freeman's work took a "disruptive and inventive approach to questions of kinship, (post)coloniality and queerness".