Todd is writing a book provisionally titled, Mourning, and the Day After, in which he argues for postmodern subjectivity as essentially riven by mourning. The book will trace the ethical limits of the subject—its presumption of beneficence, its diversity—and its metaphysical cousins (community, city, nation, and Humanism) and argue for a postmodern subjectivity that is essentially communal. 

Todd's strengths lie in the area of 20th century American and British Commonwealth literature/film/comics and literary theory. Todd has published on Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski, Samuel Delany's Dhalgren, Flann O'Brien's At-Swim-Two-Birds. He has a chapter in Peregrinations, Ruminations, and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to Doctor Who. In November of 2010, he chaired two panels, one on the cinematic sublime at M/MLA, and one on "love and sex" in the work of Alan Moore at Film and History.

With Dr. Joseph Sommers, Todd's collection, Lost Loves: Alan Moore and the Ideology of a Sexual Revolution is out in 2011 with McFarland. With Dr. Isaac Vayo, Todd is also (in the early stages) of editing a collection on Terror and the Cinematic Sublime.