Gooch's research focuses on intersections of work, power, and aesthetics in literature and film, particularly in relation to financialized service economies. His work includes analyses of the effects of the rise of the service sector on the Victorian novel, Charles Dickens and affect theory, studies of Samuel Butler and Joseph Conrad, and examinations of twenty-first century film and filmmakers, including Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, and Steve McQueen.
