Emily Coccia
@emcoccia.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovation in the Liberal Arts at Carleton College * PhD in English & WGS from UMich * teaching and researching 19th C. American working-class reading cultures, media and fan studies, and queer and trans histories
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Also don't forget that our #FSNNA2025 Discord w/all the videos stays live till Nov 9!
So make sure to use that time to catch up on any sessions you missed & to keep those amazing conversations going
So make sure to use that time to catch up on any sessions you missed & to keep those amazing conversations going
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Also don't forget that our #FSNNA2025 Discord w/all the videos stays live till Nov 9!
So make sure to use that time to catch up on any sessions you missed & to keep those amazing conversations going
So make sure to use that time to catch up on any sessions you missed & to keep those amazing conversations going
If anyone wants a little sneak preview of what’ll be the final chapter of my book, feel free to jump in and listen to this interview with one of my fan artist participants!
As we count down the days until the final installment of The Fastest Girl in New York, we've been sharing podcast interviews with archivists, student researchers, and fan participants! Check out today's chat with a wonderful cross-stitch fan artist: serialsensations.substack.com/p/cross-stit...
Cross-Stitching History: An Interview
Today we're chatting with a participant and fan artist from an earlier community read serialization project
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September 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If anyone wants a little sneak preview of what’ll be the final chapter of my book, feel free to jump in and listen to this interview with one of my fan artist participants!
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SIG members, remember we're having an election! Nominations for co-chair are due Friday, Sept. 19: forms.gle/w2g2C9cm4uq1...
2025 SCMS FaAS Election Nominations
As her three-year tenure as Fan and Audience Studies SIG co-chair has come to an end, Bethan Jones is stepping down from the SIG Steering Committee, and we're looking for a new co-chair to take her pl...
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September 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
SIG members, remember we're having an election! Nominations for co-chair are due Friday, Sept. 19: forms.gle/w2g2C9cm4uq1...
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In 2022, @emcoccia.bsky.social's "Femslash fan fiction’s expansive erotic imaginary" analyzes "the queer theoretical work fic writers do in interrogating dominant sexual scripts" in #TWC38. Read the full Article here:
Femslash fan fiction’s expansive erotic imaginary | Transformative Works and Cultures
As a genre largely unregulated by market trends and commercial interests, fan fiction can explore forms of bodily pleasure that might not otherwise be viewed as viable in mainstream pornography or…
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July 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In 2022, @emcoccia.bsky.social's "Femslash fan fiction’s expansive erotic imaginary" analyzes "the queer theoretical work fic writers do in interrogating dominant sexual scripts" in #TWC38. Read the full Article here:
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Two of my wonderful undergraduate student research partners have been hard at work creating an audiobook companion for our community read of The Fastest Girl in New York to help make the project more accessible! Try giving Part 1 a listen--they did an incredible job! substack.com/@serialsensa...
Audiobook Version of The Fastest Girl in New York, Part 1
For those who were interested in other modalities for following along...
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June 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Two of my wonderful undergraduate student research partners have been hard at work creating an audiobook companion for our community read of The Fastest Girl in New York to help make the project more accessible! Try giving Part 1 a listen--they did an incredible job! substack.com/@serialsensa...
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BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.
This is a major win for public health.
This is a major win for public health.
June 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.
This is a major win for public health.
This is a major win for public health.
Hey C19 and fandom/fan studies friends! I’m the one running this community reading project sharing a fun novella I talk about in the book project (which will, fingers crossed, be going out for review at the end of this summer!)
If you want to join me, check out the Substack linked below 🙂
If you want to join me, check out the Substack linked below 🙂
For those loving @draculadaily.bsky.social, Whale Weekly, and more, we bring you Serial Sensations! This project will share weekly updates from Colonel Cabot's 1873 queer, action-packed, serialized novella, "The Fastest Girl in New York" - subscribe for free here serialsensations.substack.com
Serialized Sensations | Substack
Serialized Sensations is an email newsletter for sharing weekly updates from the action-packed 1870s newspaper novella "The Fastest Girl in New York; or, The Beauty in Man's Clothes". Click to read Se...
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June 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hey C19 and fandom/fan studies friends! I’m the one running this community reading project sharing a fun novella I talk about in the book project (which will, fingers crossed, be going out for review at the end of this summer!)
If you want to join me, check out the Substack linked below 🙂
If you want to join me, check out the Substack linked below 🙂
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For MTC, Emily Coccia reads the class and political evolution of Severance and why love stories are bad actually.
mid-theory.com/2025/06/02/l...
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Love Will Keep Us Together (Trapped on the Severed Floor)
The shift from the outward-facing politics of severance to the intrapersonal desires of the severed is the political problem of season two in a nutshell. In a climactic, chaotic moment from the sea…
mid-theory.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
For MTC, Emily Coccia reads the class and political evolution of Severance and why love stories are bad actually.
mid-theory.com/2025/06/02/l...
mid-theory.com/2025/06/02/l...
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So many dimensions to this. But among them a failure to acknowledge the importance of highly skilled labor that is in fact a feature of the high costs of scholarly publishing. The collaborative work to produce scholarship requires expert/ paid editing, developmental and copyediting.
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
May 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
So many dimensions to this. But among them a failure to acknowledge the importance of highly skilled labor that is in fact a feature of the high costs of scholarly publishing. The collaborative work to produce scholarship requires expert/ paid editing, developmental and copyediting.
Very honored to share that “Workingwomen and Pleasured Reading: 19th C. Sensation Fiction and the Formation of Queer Readers” received the Working-Class Studies Association’s Constance Coiner Award for the best dissertation! Excited to be working on turning this project into a book!
May 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Very honored to share that “Workingwomen and Pleasured Reading: 19th C. Sensation Fiction and the Formation of Queer Readers” received the Working-Class Studies Association’s Constance Coiner Award for the best dissertation! Excited to be working on turning this project into a book!
The deadline has now been extended to May 19th, so you should take this as a sign to apply! We’d love to have you
And do note this year we have both a poster and paper track for presenters, as well as an undergrad-specific cfp to showcase student work and help build mentorship networks!
And do note this year we have both a poster and paper track for presenters, as well as an undergrad-specific cfp to showcase student work and help build mentorship networks!
📢 #CFP: Fan Studies Network North America Annual Conference 2025. "REPUTATION: Influence, Power, and Capital."
💻 Virtual conference.
🗓️ Deadline: the 16th of May, 2025.
fsn-northamerica.org/2025/04/11/g...
💻 Virtual conference.
🗓️ Deadline: the 16th of May, 2025.
fsn-northamerica.org/2025/04/11/g...
Get Ready - CFP for FSNNA 2025!
Call for Participation
Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2025 (virtual)
October 23-26, 2025
REPUTATION: Influence, Power, and Capital
FSNNA Annual Conference 2025
When fa...
fsn-northamerica.org
May 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The deadline has now been extended to May 19th, so you should take this as a sign to apply! We’d love to have you
And do note this year we have both a poster and paper track for presenters, as well as an undergrad-specific cfp to showcase student work and help build mentorship networks!
And do note this year we have both a poster and paper track for presenters, as well as an undergrad-specific cfp to showcase student work and help build mentorship networks!
Getting back on Bluesky/social media just in time for #scms2025 - echoing this enthusiastic invitation to come join us over at the Swissotel tomorrow late morning if you’ll be around!
SCMSers, please come to our panel tomorrow if you're able to: Friday, April 4th, 11:00 am -12:45 pm. Session G14. We'll be in the Geneva room in the Swissotel, so pop across the street from the Fairmont! And don't forget to check out the @scmsqtc.bsky.social zine! #SCMS25 🏳️⚧️🎓🏳️🌈
April 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Getting back on Bluesky/social media just in time for #scms2025 - echoing this enthusiastic invitation to come join us over at the Swissotel tomorrow late morning if you’ll be around!
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I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT
URGENT: Save the NEH
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April 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT
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Georgetown Law told a pregnant student due amid exams that she has to take her final with everyone else, because accommodation would be “inequitable” to “non-birthing” peers.
They suggested she bring her newborn to campus as she does her exam.
“Motherhood is not for the faint of heart,” they said.
They suggested she bring her newborn to campus as she does her exam.
“Motherhood is not for the faint of heart,” they said.
URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED: Support the Accommodations and Rights Protection for Brittany Lovely and All Pregnant Students
We, the Georgetown Law community and classmates of 2L Brittany Lovely, support her request for accommodations to her final exams this fall because of her pregnancy and the upcoming birth of her first ...
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November 22, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Georgetown Law told a pregnant student due amid exams that she has to take her final with everyone else, because accommodation would be “inequitable” to “non-birthing” peers.
They suggested she bring her newborn to campus as she does her exam.
“Motherhood is not for the faint of heart,” they said.
They suggested she bring her newborn to campus as she does her exam.
“Motherhood is not for the faint of heart,” they said.
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ACTION ALERT: Today is the LAST DAY to submit comments to the CDC urging them to recommend universal N95 masking in healthcare settings.
You can submit comments directly by email at HICPAC@CDC.gov or via their website form:
You can submit comments directly by email at HICPAC@CDC.gov or via their website form:
Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)
HICPAC is a federal advisory committee that provides advice and guidance on infection control and st
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November 22, 2024 at 6:27 PM
ACTION ALERT: Today is the LAST DAY to submit comments to the CDC urging them to recommend universal N95 masking in healthcare settings.
You can submit comments directly by email at HICPAC@CDC.gov or via their website form:
You can submit comments directly by email at HICPAC@CDC.gov or via their website form:
On the last day of classes, I ask my students to reflect on their learning and jot down one piece of advice they'd give to future students in the class. My favorite from this fall was: "Stay away from Henry James!!" Sorry James, the kids have officially crowned Poe & Melville kings of the syllabus!
November 21, 2024 at 10:19 PM
On the last day of classes, I ask my students to reflect on their learning and jot down one piece of advice they'd give to future students in the class. My favorite from this fall was: "Stay away from Henry James!!" Sorry James, the kids have officially crowned Poe & Melville kings of the syllabus!
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Since there seem to be a lot of new professors on Bluesky, I'll re-share this link to the AAUP's "Organize Every Campus" campaign. This is a critical time for faculty to organize in defense of our students, ourselves and co-workers, and the institutions we believe in. Join us!
Organize Every Campus
The AAUP is excited to be kicking off a new organizing campaign, Organize Every Campus. The program will help hone and develop member and leader organizing skills so that we can stand together, fight ...
www.aaup.org
November 11, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Since there seem to be a lot of new professors on Bluesky, I'll re-share this link to the AAUP's "Organize Every Campus" campaign. This is a critical time for faculty to organize in defense of our students, ourselves and co-workers, and the institutions we believe in. Join us!
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I changed my settings to prompt me to do it every time!
November 15, 2024 at 10:54 PM
I changed my settings to prompt me to do it every time!
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October 28, an amazing group of Palestinians. Diana Buttu, Noura Erekat, Ahmed Eldin, Tareq Baconi, Isabella Hamad.
October 21, 2023 at 11:32 AM
October 28, an amazing group of Palestinians. Diana Buttu, Noura Erekat, Ahmed Eldin, Tareq Baconi, Isabella Hamad.
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An independent assessment of UNCG's finances revealed that there is no budget crisis that justifies the proposed cuts, and indeed that the real issue is the cost of admin salaries and a significant deficit in the athletic department.
ncnewsline.com/2023/10/16/m...
ncnewsline.com/2023/10/16/m...
October 19, 2023 at 11:28 AM
An independent assessment of UNCG's finances revealed that there is no budget crisis that justifies the proposed cuts, and indeed that the real issue is the cost of admin salaries and a significant deficit in the athletic department.
ncnewsline.com/2023/10/16/m...
ncnewsline.com/2023/10/16/m...
I don't mean to brag, but giving up a few research/dissertation hours a week to volunteer at the humane society was definitely the best choice I made in grad school
October 2, 2023 at 2:39 PM
I don't mean to brag, but giving up a few research/dissertation hours a week to volunteer at the humane society was definitely the best choice I made in grad school