Some of my work centers on teen subcultures such as heavy-metal fans, Florida surfer teens, teen groupies, and female football players, particularly in relation to social decay. Some of my work focuses on mental illness, trauma, and memory. Increasingly, I’ve been writing about health and illness in the contemporary world, especially illnesses that are not easily explainable, that are somewhere between psychological and physical, that might be the result of environmental poisoning or perhaps psychological poisoning. Related, and given the current presidency, I am interested in cognitive dissonance, to what extent are we willing to hold conflicting beliefs, to what extent will we do anything to ignore facts that counteract what it is we believe.