Jessica Hautsch

Jessica Hautsch is a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University. Her current research focuses on the intersection of cognitive theory and the reading and writing practices of digital fandom. She is in the process of writing her dissertation, tentatively titled Thinking Through Fandom: Mind, Body, and Feeling in Reception and Creation Practices of Fan Communities. She has published and presented on fanfiction, fan use of animated GIFs, and the Hogwarts Houses as interpretative frameworks. Her other work interrogates gendered and racialized representations in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and reads terraforming in Firefly and Serenity through the lens of the Anthropocene.