Francesca Coppa

Francesca Coppa is a long-time fan and also an academic. She is one of the founding board members of the OTW, serving from 2007 to 2012. She is a Professor of English and Film Studies at Muhlenberg College, where she teaches. Right now, she is writing and lecturing on vidding as a form of remix culture, but she has also written about: fan fiction, fandom history, dramatic literature, stage magic, and performance studies. She also directed a series of short films about vidding for MIT's New Media Literacy project.
Fans sometimes confuse her with Franzeska Dickson.
==OTW Biography==
==OTW Tenure==
She was the Secretary of the Board and served on several committees at various times over the five years she served: ADT, Communications, Open Doors, and Vidding. Like all Board members, she also served as the Board Liaison for several other committees at various times, including Legal and Journal. Coppa resigned from all her positions in the OTW at the end of the 2012 term.Board Resignations and Appointments for 2013. OTW news post 27 December 2012. (Accessed 4 December 2013.) In 2016 she rejoined the OTW staff as one of the soliciting editors of Transformative Works and Cultures's "Symposium" section.
==Advocacy==
While serving with the OTW, Coppa worked with OTW Legal to petition the Library of Congress for a DMCA exemption for noncommercial remixers like vidders. The OTW and EFF got that exemption in 2009, and Coppa worked with OTW Legal again in 2012 and 2015 to secure the renewal (and also the expansion to hi-def and Blu Ray) of the exemption. She and Rebecca Tushnet have also lobbied the House Judiciary committee to have fandom's voice heard in any future reconsideration of copyright legislation.
==Some 2019 Thoughts==
==Interviews==
* Fan Fiction (2005 radio show) (2005)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Francesca Coppa (2012)
* Bringing Fan Fiction into the Classroom: An Interview with Francesca Coppa (2017)
* Francesca Coppa, “The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age” (2017)
* Ten Years of AO3: Francesca Coppa (2019)
==Bibliography of Fandom-Related Work==
===Books===
*Vidding: A History, University of Michigan Press, 2022, a book that traces the history of vidding through a "critical, feminist lens".Tweet by University of Michigan Press, February 24, 2022. Accessed May 3, 2023. The title is open-access, something that was funded in part through a restricted donation to the Organization for Transformative Works from Harry Potter Education Fanon.We also received our first restricted donation: US$5,161.62 from HP Education Fanon, Inc., a fellow 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to promoting the benefits of reading that sadly ceased operations in 2018. The donation will go toward supporting Francesca Coppa’s book on the history of fan vidding for the University of Michigan Press, which is currently in production. The money will be used to pay for the University of Michigan to host the fanvids referenced in the book, as well as assist in making the book free for everyone to read and use. 2020 Budget Update Post, Organization for Transformative Works, October 7, 2020. (Accessed May 3, 2023).
*The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age, University of Michigan Press, 2017, a collection of fanfiction stories in major Western fandoms with contextual and analytical essays on each.
===Articles===
* "Vidding: The Art of Flow," MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition catalogue, Black Dog Press, 2016. p. 150 - 153.
* Fuck Yeah, Fandom is Beautiful. Journal of Fandom Studies 2. 1 (2014): 73-82.
* "Pop culture, fans, and social media," in Routledge Handbook of Social Media, edited by Theresa Senft and Jeremy Hunsinger (New York: Routledge, 2014) p. 76-92
* An Archive of Our Own: Fanfiction Writers Unite! Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking over the World, ed. Anne Jamison. Smart Pop Books, 2013.
* Fan/Remix Video: a special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, Issue #9, March 15, 2012. Co-edited with Julie Levin Russo. Introductory essay, "Fan/Remix Video (A Remix)" Online at: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/10
* Sherlock as Cyborg: Bridging Mind and Body. Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom, ed. Louisa Stein and Kristina Busse. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012.
* "An Editing Room of One's Own: Vidding as Women's Work" and "How To Suppress Women's Remix" with Rebecca Tushnet. Camera Obscura 77 (26.2) September 2011.
* "Girl Genius: Nyssa of Traken," in Chicks Dig Time Lords, ed. Tara O'Shea and Lynne Thomas (Mad Norwegian Press, 2010)
* "A Fannish Taxonomy Of Hotness." Cinema Journal 48.4 (Summer 2009). p. 107-113.
* "Vidding," for Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia, ed. Robin Reid. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008.
* "Women, Star Trek and the Early Development of Fannish Vidding," for Transformative Works and Cultures Issue 1, September 15, 2008.
* Writing Bodies In Space: Media Fanfiction as Theatrical Performance," in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, ed. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse, (MacFarland, 2006) p. 225-244.
* "A Brief History of Media Fandom," in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, ed. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse,, (MacFarland, 2006) p. 41-59.
===Selected Media Appearances===
* Guest, "Fanfiction." The Why Factor, BBC World Service radio show, broadcast: 3/28/16.
* Guest "The Power of Pop Culture," The Stream, Aljazeera, Feb 12, 2013. <http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201302120142-0022538>
* "When Harry Met Frodo: The Strange World of Fan Fiction" for BBC Radio 4, broadcast November 26, 2012.
* "Can Fans Change Society?" Off Book, PBS. Released 9/7/12 <http://www.pbs.org/arts/gallery/off-book-%7C-season-two/offbook-fan-culture/ > or < http://youtu.be/B9Zum7azNIQ>
* Interviewed for NPR's Morning Edition, "Original Fiction In All The 'Shades' Of Fandom." 7/13/ 12 <http://www.npr.org/2012/07/13/156681365/original-fiction-in-all-the-sades-of-fandom>
* Inteviewed by Margot Adler about Pottermore for NPR's All Things Considered. Pottermore Brings Harry Potter To The Digital World. June 23, 2011.
* Interviewed by Neda Ulaby about fanvidding for NPR's All Things Considered. Vidders Talk Back To Their Pop-Culture Muses. January 16, 2009. Broadcast: February 25, 2009. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101154811>
* Invited participant, "Will Code of Best Practices Help Video Mash-Up Artists Stay Legal?" by Mark Glaser, PBS MediaShift. Email roundtable on the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video. Part one, including Francesca Coppa: July 30, 2008; Parts two and three: Aug. 4 and 11, 2008. Part One - Part Two - Part Three
* "Remixing Television: Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground," interview by Jesse Walker, Reason: Free Minds and Free Markets. August/September 2008, p. 57-63.
* Talking Head/Interviewee, A Video Summit, Anthrovlog. 2008.
* NPR/PRI's "Open Source Radio" hour-long exploration of "Fan Fiction," broadcast on June 13, 2005, 6-7 PM.
* A 2009 Interview with Francesca Coppa
===Video Work===
Director, Vidding, a documentary on remix culture produced by the Organization for Transformative Works in partnership with MIT and New Media Literacy, 2008. Edited by Laura Shapiro. Sound by AbsoluteDestiny.
Segments include:
# What is Vidding? (2:48)
# Technology and Tools (3:09)
# Good Vids, Bad Vids (3:18)
# I like to watch (3:19)
# Collaboration and Community (3:03)
# Why We Vid (3:50)
Director, “5 Questions with Sandy and Rache of the Media Cannibals," a short film for TWC's history issue, March, 2011
Director, "5 Questions with Kandy Fong," a short film for TWC, 2014.
===Curation===
Coppa has curated shows of fan vids for Spectacle: The The Music Video at the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati; Cut-Up an exhibition at the The Museum of the Moving Image, NYC; MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery; and for the DIY 24/7 Video Summit at the University of Southern California.
===Class Syllabi===
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==References==
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