Writing Center Specialist

Colket Center

Professional history:

A cultural historian by training, Roy Jo has been working in writing centers since 2007 and joined CC’s Writing Center in 2014.  She has also been a magazine writer, book editor, wedding photographer, history teacher, and horse trainer.  She specializes in working with writers of high-stakes applications.

Roy Jo specializes in:

• Working with applicants for fellowships, grants, IDMs, and graduate school
• Advising for the Fullbright, Erasmus Mundus, and other post-graduate opportunities
• Teaching the GS 390 grant-writing adjunct

Current research interests and scholarship:

• Egyptomania (“Egyptomania as a fandom (or two): How fanon became canon in the world’s oldest fandom,” published in Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies Volume 18, issue 2)
• Fan tourism (“When the Pilgrimage Comes to the Fan: Fan Tourism in 19th-Century Egyptomania,” presented at the 2025 PCA Conference)
• Connections between Egyptomania and other fandoms (“The Mummy’s Curse: Creating Fans at the Intersection of Egyptomania and Horror”, to be presented at the 2026 PCA Conference)

Professional development and service:

• Member, The Popular Culture Association
• Member, The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania
• Member, National Association of Fellowships Advisors
• Chair, Fellowships subgroup of CC’s Student Success Operational Group

Personal interests:

• 80s pop music
• watching Asian dramas
• reading (and trying to write) genre fiction
• playing Horizon Zero Dawn and Tomb Raider