books
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (BFI Classic)
Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory
El Cine Lésbico después de la Teoría Queer
translated into Spanish by Victoria Vidal and Sylvia Barba
peer-reviewed articles
Butch Barbie
Defensive Spectatorship, or, Watching as a Butch/Lesbian
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (forthcoming)
Ambivalent Masculinities in Contemporary Film and TV: On Lesbian and Trans Representability
On Teaching Diversity and Inclusion
"Unique Joy": Netflix, Pleasure and the Shaping of Queer Taste
Lesbian Legibility and Queer Legacy in Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Appropriate Feminisms: Ambivalence and Citational Practice in Appropriate Behavior
Firewatching: Notes on "Leaving the Cinema"
Algorithms for Her? Feminist Claims to Technical Language: Introduction to Special Issue
Feminist Media Studies 20:5 (2020) open access
with Sophie Bishop, Bridget Connor, Zeena Feldman and Rebecca Saunders
"Perhaps Too Passionate": Introduction to Special Issue: Feminist Pedagogies
Ambiguous Intimacy as Queer Potential: Touch, Desire and Adolescence in She Monkeys
book chapters
Bad Timing: The Lesbian Sex Scene's Queer Temporalities
Screening Sex: The Sex Scene, edited by Darren Kerr and Donna Peberdy (forthcoming)
with Susan Potter
The Translation of Desire: Queering Visibility in Nathalie... and Chloe
Desire, Outcast: Locating Queer Adolescence
Querying Postfeminism in The Kids Are All Right
film reviews
Review: Lesbian Road Trip Movies
Sight and Sound 34:4 (2024)
Review: Bottoms
Sight and Sound online (2023) open access
Review: The Song of Songs
Sight and Sound 33:8 (2023)
Review: Dolly Parton's America
Sight and Sound 32:7 (2022)
Review: Queen of Glory
Review: Ali and Ava
Review: Rúrangi
Sight and Sound 32:2 (2022)
Review: Parallel Mothers
Sight and Sound 32:2 (2022)
Review: La Cha Cha
Sight and Sound 31:9 (2021)
Review: Sweetheart
Review: How to Build a Girl
Review: Women Make Film: A New Road Movie through Cinema
Review: And Then We Danced
Review: Rafiki
Sight and Sound 29:6 (2019)
feature articles
Playing the Game
"They Were Right … I’m a Homo": Going to Lesbian Camp with But I’m a Cheerleader
BFI Flare 2021: Festival Highlights
Booksmart
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Ian Haydn Smith (2020)
Happiest Season is the First LGBTQ+ Christmas Movie from a Major Studio
Where There's Smoke: Seeing Sex in Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Watching Myself Watching Netflix's LGBTQ+ "Recommendations"
Straightforward Be Damned
Sight and Sound 29:6 (2019)
Trying to Figure It Out: The Queerness of Queer Cinema
Cornerhouse Quarterly Programme (2013)
videos & playlists
Critic Vote: The Greatest Films of All Time
Video Essay: Show Me Love: Did You Know She's a Lesbian?
Screening Introduction: Lesbian Camp: Yes It's F*cking Political: But I'm a Cheerleader
Video Essay: Basic Instinct
Playlist: Discovering Lesbian Film History through Mulholland Drive
Playlist: Queer Feminist Citations
Video Explainer: Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory
book reviews
Review: Rachel R. Martin, Alison Bechdel: Conversations
Review: Lucy Nicholas, Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come
Times Higher Education (2011)