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Emily E. RoachAfter working as a lawyer in London for over a decade, I returned to post-graduate study full time in 2016. I hold a B.A. Hons and M.A. (Oxon) in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, an M.A. in Children's Literature from Roehampton University (2012) and an M.A. in Contemporary Literature and Culture from the University of York (2017), where I am currently a PhD candidate, writing a thesis on post-ink poetry and the queer virtual stage of transgender performance poets, queering and theorising online space and exploring space, time and motion in trans performance poetry.
My previous M.A. dissertations focused on Harry Potter fanfiction (Roehampton) and queer temporalities in gay and bisexual male-authored twenty-first century YA fiction (York). My areas of research include queer theory, post-Stonewall LGBT American fiction, slam and spoken word poetry, LGBT YA fiction and LGBT fiction produced in virtual spaces, such as performance poetry on YouTube, fanfiction and related fandom communities. My research extends to media and celebrity studies, as my work on large internet fandoms frequently intersects with queer(ing) pop culture and/or offering queer perspectives on film, television and pop music. I am a freelance writer and volunteer for several LGBT charities, with a particular focus on LGBT youth, bisexuality and non-binary gender identity. Can be found on Twitter @dustlesslibrary, writing fanfic under a pseud or getting my hair dyed. Again. |
Media |
Fansplaining Podcast. Guest speaker. Episode 37: Queer YA and Beyond also briefly featured in Episode 55: Happy Anniversary #2
Bi Dean Podcast. Guest Speaker. Episode 4: Is It 'Too Late' For Dean to Come Out? Bi Dean Podcast. Guest Speaker. Episode 5: Is It 'Fanservice' To Make Dean Bisexual? |
Quoted |
‘Too closure for comfort: the death of definitive TV endings’ by Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 24 April 2017
‘The final frontier: how sci-fi is becoming less male’ by Dan Martin, The Guardian, 9 May 2017 |
Articles |
Your Fave is Problematic: Cyberbullying, Callout Culture and Toxic Activism in Fandom, The Mary Sue, May 2017
From Boyband to Beyond: Why Do Conversations About Pop Music Still Bash the Fangirl? The Mary Sue, April 2017 Queer Nostalgia: Reading LGBTQ+ YA as an Adult, Bustle, March 2017 How Queerbaiting Discussions Show Heteronormativity is Alive and Well, The Mary Sue, March 2017 Cosplay, Drag and the Transformative Nature of Living Out Your Fandom, The Mary Sue, January 2017 |
Chapters |
Haunted Families and the Specter of Queer Desire in The Haunting of Hill House (forthcoming, 2019)
Homoerotics and the Meta-Textual Fangirl in Supernatural (forthcoming, 2019) Supernatural: Wincest and Dean Winchester's Bisexual Panic (forthcoming, 2019) Polyjuice, Potterheads and the Changing Face of Harry Potter Fandom: From Livejournal to Tumblr (forthcoming) AIDS, Homophobia and the Monstrous Upside Down: The Queer Subtext of Stranger Things in Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series ed. Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., McFarland & Company, Inc., 2018 Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping, and ‘The Cursed Child' in Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse ed. Amanda Firestone and Leisa A. Clark, McFarland & Company, Inc., 2018 Epilogue? What Epilogue? Re-visioning the Harry Potter Canon in Fanon, Harry Potter Still Recruiting, Winged Lion Press, 2012 |
Journals |
The Homoerotics of the Boyband, Queerbaiting and RPF in Pop Music Fandoms, Journal of Fandom Studies, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2018)
The Class Divide: Creditors Fight for Equality as the SIVs Collapse, International Insolvency Law Review, Volume 2, 2010 |
Conferences |
The Specter of the Boyband Closet, One Direction and Homosocial Desire, Queer Celebrity Conference, University of Portsmouth (June 2019, forthcoming)
Transgender Performance Poetry and The Ghosts of Childhood, Queer Art of Feeling Conference, University of Cambridge (May 2019, forthcoming) This Paper is Problematic: The Impact of Changing Platforms on Fandom Content, Fan Studies Network Conference, Cardiff University (June 2018) Tales of the City: America's Queer Geographies in Gay Male Authored Fiction, York Explore Library (2018) Homoerotics, Homonormativity and Big Gay Hogwarts: Queer Perspectives on the Internet's Biggest Slash Fandoms, University of York (2018) Queer Temporalities and Gay Male Identities in Twenty-First Century American YA Fiction, University of Northampton (2017) Queerbaiting, Queer Coding and Queer Visibility from Sherlock to Stranger Things, University of York (2017) Harry Potter and the Quest for Family: Heteronormativity and Homonormativity in Canon and Fandom, ‘Leviosa’ Harry Potter convention, Las Vegas (2016) Queer Identity in Contemporary YA Fiction at ‘Let’s Hear it for the Girls’ interdisciplinary conference, Warwick University (2016) All Publicity is Good Publicity? On Selling and Silencing Fanfiction at the ‘Annual Great Creative Writing Conference,’ Imperial College London (2015) Sexualising Severus Snape: Slashing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at ‘Magic is Might’ international academic conference exploring the cultural influence of the Harry Potter books and films, University of Limerick (2012) Cross-Border Fannish Interaction: The Boundless Internet and Participatory Culture in the Harry Potter Fandom at ‘Cross Boundaries: Translations and Migrations’ the 33rd IBBY International Congress, Imperial College (2012) Queer Pleasure, Pornography and Romance in Participatory Culture: Slashing and Shipping the ‘Boy Who Lived’ at ‘The Pleasures of Romance’ Fourth Annual International Conference on Popular Romance Studies, University of York (2012) Dealing with Death: Tough Topics in Poetry for Children at the IBBY/NCRCL Annual Conference, Roehampton University (2011) Gay Gryffindors and Slashy Slytherins: Feminism and Gender, Pornography and Romance in Slash Fiction at DiaconAlley, a Harry Potter fan convention at the University of Kent (July 2011) Numerous panel roles at fan conventions, including Nine Worlds Geek Fest (London, England (2012, 2013, 2015)), Dragon*Con (Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2012)) and Leviosa (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (2016)). Panel topics have included queering popular culture, slash fiction and feminism, ageism and body image in femmeslash, writing the taboo and queer representation in young adult fiction. |
Volunteer Work |
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