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Cara Marta Messina
Assistant Professor of English
Bio
Dr. Cara Marta Messina centers everyday digital writers and rhetoric in her research and teaching. Her book, tentatively titled Writing Critical Fandoms: Tracing Representations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Fandoms, explores critical writing practices in fanfiction, specifically how fans challenge the heteronormativity, racism, and ableism in both the media they love and their own fan communities. The book is based on her open-access digital dissertation, Critical Fan Toolkit (), which received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Computers and Composition Hugh Burns Distinguished Dissertation Award. Besides her work in critical fan studies, she also examines the writing and rhetoric of code through feminist and game studies lenses. Her work has appeared in Written Communication, Computers and Composition Online, The Journal of Writing Analytics, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and other journals and edited collections. She is currently on the editorial board for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy as well as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Fandom Studies and Digital Humanities Quarterly.
Her teaching integrates digital writing and forms of authorship into the classroom, emphasizing the importance of diversity, equity, accessibility, and empirical research. Before coming to Marist, she taught at St. John鈥檚 University, Northeastern University, and Jacksonville State University in Alabama. She is originally from Queens and is thrilled to be teaching and living in her home state.
Education
PhD English, Northeastern University, 2021
MA English, St. John鈥檚 University, 2015
BA English, St. John鈥檚 University, 2014
Research Interests and Specializations
Digital Rhetoric, Fan Studies, Digital Humanities, Technical Communication, Writing and Rhetoric of Code, Mixed Methods (Qualitative and Computational Methods), Game Studies, Intersectional Feminism, Critical Digital Pedagogy
Selected Publications
Under contract. Writing Critical Fandoms: Tracing Representations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Fanfiction. University of Iowa Press, Fandom & Culture.
鈥淧rompting Reflection: Using Corpus Linguistics Methods to Improve the Teaching and Assessment of Reflections.鈥� Written Communication. 2023. With Cherice Jones and Mya Poe.
鈥淪ocial Knowledge Creation in the Digital Humanities: Case Studies.鈥� Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities, Volume 2, Iter Press, 2022. With Sarah Connell, Julia Flanders, Caroline Klibanoff, and Sarah Payne.
鈥淏lack Digital Humanities for the Rising Generation.鈥� Digital Humanities Quarterly, 16.3, 2022. Open-access special issue. With Alanna Prince and Izetta Autumn Mobley. .
鈥渞m monika.chr: Coding Rhetorics and Ephemeral Code in Doki Doki Literature Club.鈥� Computers and Composition Online, 鈥淢aking Games Matter鈥� Special Issue. 2022. .
鈥淏lack Lives Matter Digital Activism: Writing for Social Media Course.鈥� Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal, 3, 2021.
鈥淥n the Front Lines: Graduate Student Roles in Shaping Discourse in Digital Spaces.鈥� Xchanges Issue 15.1, 2020. With Mandy Olejnik.
鈥淭racing Fan Uptakes: Tagging, Language, and Ideological Practices in The Legend of Korra Fanfictions.鈥� The Journal of Writing Analytics, 3, 2019.
Selected Presentations
鈥淐ode-Sharing and Documentation as Digital Feminist Praxis.鈥� Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL.2023.
鈥淔an Composing as Digital Activism: Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Fanfiction.鈥� Computers and Writing. Greenville, NC. May 2022.
鈥淚 Am Not Functional, I Am Not A Function: Enacting Feminist Coding Rhetorics Through Disruptions.鈥� Conference on College Composition and Communication. Virtual. March 2022.
鈥淢ultilingual Students' Linguistic Identities and Languaging Practices: A Mixed Methods Exploration.鈥� With Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Cherice Jones, and Mya Poe. TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo. Virtual. March 2022.
鈥淐entering Feminist and Queer Pleasures: Tracing Fan Community Writing Practices using Network Analysis鈥� Conference on Community Writing. Virtual. October 2021.
鈥淭racing Fan Uptakes with Computational Text Analysis.鈥� Computers and Writing. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 2019.
Awards and Honors
Computers and Composition Hugh Burns Distinguished Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, 2022.
Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Humanics, Northeastern University, 2022.
College of Social Sciences and Humanities Teaching Award, Northeastern University, 2021.
Kairos Teaching Award. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2019.
Media Links
鈥淛SU鈥檚 new game studies minor.鈥� The Chanticleer. November 7, 2022.
鈥淛SU to get new Game Studies Minor.鈥� Anniston Star. February 16, 2022.
Cara Marta Messina, Dan Dissinger & Katie Robison. 鈥�76. Celebrating Critical Fan Studies w/ Cara Marta Messina.鈥� Writing Remix Podcast. December 2021. .
Cara Marta Messina & Charles Woods. 鈥淓pisode 70: Dr. Cara Messina (Emerging Scholar Series).鈥� The Big Rhetorical Podcast. April 27, 2021.
