Katharine McCain
Scholar, High School English Teacher
Katiemccain@gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae
Employment
High School English Teacher
Fall 2022 - Present
Delaware Valley Friends School
9th and 12th grade
Graduate Teaching Associate
Fall 2015 - Spring 2020
Department of English, The Ohio State University
Graduate Research Assistant
Summer 2014 - Fall 2014
Georgetown University
Manuscript Editor
Fall 2013 - Spring 2015
Private Employer, Washington, DC
English/ESL Instructor
Summer 2013
Westtown Friends School, West Chester, PA
Education
The Ohio State University
Ph.D. English 2020
Concentration in Television, Film, and Media Studies, specializations in Fan Studies and Transformative Works
Dissertation: Today Your Barista Is: Genre Characteristics in the Coffee Shop Alternate Universe
Georgetown University
M. A. English 2015
Thesis: Canon vs. 'Fanon': Genre Devices in Contemporary Fanfiction
Connecticut College
B.A. Literatures in English 2013
B.A. Classics 2013
Distinction in Literatures in English, Distinctions in Classics, Elizabeth C. Evans Awards (in Classics), Cum Laude, Dean’s Honors, Dean’s High Honors
Teaching and Research Interests
Fan Studies
Horror Media
Popular Culture and Media Studies
Queer and Feminist Theory
Sherlock Holmes
U.S. Television Studies
Articles
“The Journey to Flavor Town: Guy Fieri and Celebrity Fandom"
2021
The Food Network Recipe: Essays on Cooking, Celebrity, and Competition
Edited by Emily Newman and Emily Witsell, McFarland & Company
“Girls With Teeth: Fan Identity in The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon”
2020
Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King
Edited by Debbie Olson, Lexington Books
"Sensibly Organized: Filling in Gaps With Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality"
2018
Prequels, Coquels and Sequels in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
Edited by Armelle Parey, CRC Press, Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
“Epoximise!: The Renegotiation of Film and Literature Through Harry Potter GIF-sets”
2018
Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age
Edited by John Alberti and Andy Miller, Wayne University Press
“Feeling Exposed? Irene Adler and the Self-Reflective Disguise”
2015
Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Film and Television Adaptations Since 2009
Edited by Nadine Farghaly, McFarland
Misc. Publications
“Gotta Catch On: Intertextuality and the Popularity of Pokémon Go”
2016
In Media Res, A Media Commons Project
<http://mediacommons.org/imr/2016/10/15/gotta-catch-intertextuality-and-popularity-pok-mon-go>.
Conferences
"'Our Good Friend Jonathan': The Memetic Transformation of Dracula Daily"
October, 2023
Fan Studies Network North America
Virtual
"Fans Love It a Latte: The Rise and Participatory Nature of Coffee Shop AUs"
June 10, 2017
Fifth Annual Fandom & Neomedia Studies Association
The Fort Worth Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas
Published in The Phoenix Papers Vol. 3, No. 1
“Pray For Me, Preacher: Embracement and Celebration of Fan Anger in AMC’s Preacher”
February 25, 2017
English Graduate Organization Conference
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
“There’s a GIF for That: The Innovation of the Supernatural Fan-GIF”
February 18, 2017
SWPACA Conference
Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, New Mexico
“Not Two People, but an Experience: Queer Representation and the Renegotiation of Fanworks in Steven Universe”
June 16 2016
Console-ing Passions Conference
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Fiction
"Ocean Girl"
2017
Ohio's Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology, Z Publishing
“Selling Stars”
2016
Astral Projections: A Constellation of Poetry, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
“Hereditary”
2014
22 More Quick Shivers, Cosmonomic Multimedia
“I Walk a Path of Cyclicality”
2012
Sherlock’s Home: The Empty House, MX Publishing
Additional Experience
The Writing Revolution Training
Fall 2023
Six session course
Second Resident Director
Summer 2019
Supervising nine students for a one month study abroad trip to London
"Children's Literatures of Greater London, 1671-Present,” English Department, The Ohio State University
The Ohio State University's English 1110 Program Assessment Program
Autumn 2018
Includes training, reading, and scoring student essays for the purposes of evaluating the First Year Writing Program and comparing it to other universities
Research Assistant
Summer 2014
Doctor Caetlin Benson-Allott’s book Remote Control (Object Lessons), English Department, Georgetown University
Interviews
How The ‘Coffee Shop AU’ Went From Author J.M. Snyder’s Brainchild to a Fanfiction Staple”
January 29 2021
by Kristina Manentte, Syfy,
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/fanfiction-coffee-shop-au-origins-jm-snyder-fanfic
“Millennials Can’t Stop Writing Fanfiction About Coffee Shops”
September 28 2018
by Gavia Baker-Whitelawa, The Daily Dot,
https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/millennials-coffee-shop-fanfiction/