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Nicola Rene Govocek
Nicola Rene Govocek is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at Temple University. Her primary research areas include cultural studies, queer theory and disability. Through the intersections of these frameworks, she studies how popular culture and fan fiction depict issues of gender and sexual identity, bodily autonomy vs. commodification, trauma and interpersonal power dynamics. Her previous projects have addressed fan fiction that centres disability and sexual trauma in Mad Max: Fury Road; consent, gender and embodiment in Supernatural; and the significance of body language and physical touch as a mode of communication in the CW’s Flash, the MCU’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier and DreamWorks’s Megamind. She is currently working on a dissertation concerning how approaches from rhetorical genre studies can inform research into alternate universe fan fiction, with an emphasis on the Omegaverse.
Contact: Temple University, College of Liberal Arts – English, 1030 Mazur Hall, 1114 Polett Walk, Philadelphia, Pa 19122, USA.