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Emily Coccia serves as the Robert A. Oden Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovation in the Liberal Arts within the Department of English at Carleton College, having joined the institution in 2024.
Her educational credentials include a B.A. and M.A. in English from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in English and Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dr. Coccia’s research centers on nineteenth-century working-class and mass-popular literature, queer history, and contemporary fan cultures. Her current book project investigates how American working women utilized fannish reception practices to envision queer and trans futures while cultivating spaces for intimacy and pleasure, emphasizing intersections of gender, sexuality, and class. This work bridges literary studies, gender theory, and digital humanities through archival methodologies.
She teaches specialized courses including Being Queer in Nineteenth-Century America, Fandom and the Queer Digital Commons, and Excavating Histories: Archival Research Methods, reflecting her commitment to recovering marginalized voices in literary history.
Her scholarship contributes significantly to the revitalization of working-class cultural studies within queer and trans historiography, particularly through innovative analysis of fan communities as sites of resistance and world-building.
