Abigail De Kosnik

Abigail De Kosnik (she/her) is a Professor at University of California, Berkeley in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS), and an affiliated faculty member of Film and Media, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Folklore. She is currently Chair of TDPS. She researches media literacy and popular media, particularly digital media, film and television, and fan studies. She is particularly interested in the intersections of media and performance with issues of feminism, queerness, ethnicity, and transnationalism.

De Kosnik is the author of The General Library: Piracy and the Politics of Minority Access (forthcoming from MIT Press, 2027), Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom (MIT Press, 2026), and co-editor of The Media Crease: Theorizing Culture, Repetition, and Social Difference (forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic, 2027), #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation (University of Michigan Press, 2019), and The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era (University Press of Mississippi, 2011). She has published articles on media fandom, popular digital culture, and performance studies in Third Text, JCMS (Journal of Cinema and Media Studies), The International Journal of Communication, Modern Drama, Transformative Works and Cultures, Verge, Performance Research, and elsewhere. 

De Kosnik is Filipina American.