Professor, Rhode Island School of Design. Fandom studies, popular music studies, sound studies, American studies. Views are my own. https://www.risd.edu/academics/history-philosophy-and-social-sciences/faculty/daniel-cavicchi
Daniel Cavicchi
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Agata Łuksza’s “Celebrities and Confectionary: The Edible History of Theater Fandom” argues that desserts and delicacies functioned as affective intermediaries for late 19th-C. theater fans, fusing memory, desire, and admiration. #FanStudies #TheaterFandom
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In my annual Fan Cultures seminar, the final assignment is a case study. Students’ recent topics ranged across media, language, and culture, including fandoms for Honkai Impact 3rd, Taskmaster, Cluely, LCK, Bato, Lypsinka, and American Girl. Wonderful reading—and mutual learning. #FanStudies
I just finished leading a 3-day faculty institute on “Difficult Conversations and Collaborative Learning.” Having extended conversations with colleagues about teaching was truly inspiring. However, I now also may need a couple of quiet days of jigsaw puzzling and watching cricket.
Nice piece by Barack Obama on “The Music That Made Us” in the current Rolling Stone (June 2026): “Great music has a way of helping us feel seen; more than that, it helps us see others, enlarging our hearts and our moral imaginations.”
In “’Long Live Mrs. Heiberg!’: Fame, Theater and the Birth of Fan Culture in Nineteenth-Century Copenhagen,” Clement Räthel explores fannish audience reactions to Danish theater celebrity Johanne Luise Heiberg.
#FanStudies #FandomHistory
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