Education & Professional History
Georgetown University, MA; University of Michigan, PhD
Emily Coccia teaches and writes on nineteenth-century genres of working-class and mass-popular literature; queer history; and contemporary fan cultures. Her book project considers how American working women’s fannish reception practices allowed them to envision queer and trans futures and to cultivate spaces for pleasure and intimacy. Degrees: Georgetown University, B.A. and M.A.; University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Ph.D. in English and Women’s and Gender Studies
At Carleton since 2024.
Current Courses
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Fall 2025
ENGL 256:
Excavating Histories: Archival Research Methods
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ENGL 257:
Fandom and the Queer Digital Commons
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Spring 2026
Publications:
- “‘Dear Susie, please be corporal’: Epistolary Ambivalence in the Letters of Emily Dickinson.” The Emily Dickinson Journal, vol. 33, nos. 1/2, 2024, pp. 9-26.
- “Ambivalence as a Feminist Project.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 49, no. 4, 2024, pp. 779-805. Collaboratively authored with Lisa Harris, Sara McClelland, Cecilia Morales, Ava Purkiss, Catherine Sanok, Eshe Sherley, and Valerie Traub.
- “‘Oh Sumptuous moment / Slower go’: Emily Dickinson’s Sapphic Wor(l)d-Making.” Emily Dickinson Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, 2022, pp. 81-99.
- “Femslash Fandom and the Cultivation of White Queer Genealogies: Longing for Histories, Reading for Futures.” Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 37, 2022.
- “Femslash Fan Fiction’s Expansive Erotic Imaginary.” Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 38, 2022.
- “Producing Intimacy: Queer Attachments in Workingwomen’s Writings.” Legacy, vol. 37, no. 1, 2020, pp. 17-41.
- “Review: Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste by Jonathan Gray.” Journal of Fandom Studies vol. 12, no. 1, 2024, pp. 103-5.
Recent Public-Facing Research:
