A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Rukmini Pande traces how mainstream narratives of fandom history and fandom spaces have been characterized by white-centricity, racism, and anti-Blackness.
Read moreLauren Rouse and Mel Stanfill examine COVID-19 fan fiction on the Archive of Our Own to see whose experiences of the virus are present—and absent—in these stories.
Read moreJosh Stenger argues that participatory fandom presents higher education with an opportunity to help undergraduates identify the skills and habits of mind they have already developed as fans, then strengthen and apply these in intentional, edifying ways in more traditional academic settings.
Read moreThe inaugural Fan Studies Network-North America Conference took place in October 2018. In case you couldn’t make it, Jenny Keegan is here to fill you in.
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