Francesca Coppa
Francesca Coppa (born March 26, 1970) is an American scholar whose research has encompassed British drama,
performance studies and
fan studies. In English literature, she is known for her work on the British writer
Joe Orton; she edited several of his early novels and plays for their first publication in 1998–99, more than thirty years after his murder, and compiled an essay collection, ''Joe Orton: A Casebook'' (2003). She has also published on
Oscar Wilde. In the fan-studies field, Coppa is known for documenting the history of media
fandom and, in particular, of
fanvids, a type of fan-made video. She co-founded the
Organization for Transformative Works in 2007, originated the idea of interpreting
fan fiction as performance, and in 2017, published the first collection of fan fiction designed for teaching purposes. As of 2021, Coppa is a professor of English at
Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania.
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