His doctoral research, conducted under the supervision of Melani McAlister and Robert McRuer,[3] examined the cultural politics of superhero comics in the context of postwar American liberalism.
He is also a co-organizer of the Sexual Politics/Sexual Poetics Collective (SPSP), a group of early queer studies scholars working in new directions of the field.
He is drawn to the idea of cultural production, including the making of visual and written media (e.g. movies, books, comics), and he often explores this through the lens of marginalized and queer groups.
This transformation encouraged comic book writers and artists to develop various left-wing political ideals that were not socially acceptable in their work.
I Cherish My Bile Duct as Much as Any Other Organ': Political Disgust and the Digestive Life of AIDS in Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Special Issue On the Visceral, edited by Marcia Ochoa, Sharon Holland, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins.