Emily Coccia

Education & Professional History

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

Publications:

• “Producing Intimacy: Queer Attachments in Workingwomen’s Writings.” Legacy, vol. 37, no. 1, 2020, pp. 17-41.
• “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.
• “‘Oh Sumptuous moment / Slower go’: Emily Dickinson’s Sapphic Wor(l)d-Making.” Emily Dickinson Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, 2022, pp. 81-99.
• “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.
• “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.