Dr. DeLong is a lecturer with the WGSST Department at Ohio State. They received their PhD in WGSST in Spring 2025. Their dissertation, "Asylum Afterlives: Disabled and Incarcerated Ghosts, Popular Culture, and the Promise of Abolition" researched the histories of two former mental institutions and their modern commercialization into tourist spectacles. DeLong works with abolitionist feminisms, critical disability studies, and popular culture studies. She also teaches about disability, health and medicine in the United States. 

Her current research explores how 20th century jails and mental institutions are represented in media such as true crime, film, and documentaries. Like many carceral disability studies scholars, DeLong argues that eugenics is culturally and socially alive in the United States, and how abolitionist teachings help to both engage and uproot it.