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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010 This unthemed issue centers on the preoccupation with the embodied fan. Essays discuss such topics as the concerns of the aging and the pregnant fan, the relationship of virginity and popular media texts among teen girl fans, and representations of ...
TWC Editor
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Acafan methodologies and giving back to the fan community
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021 In fan studies, researchers are encouraged to share their research with the fan communities they study, with some even suggesting that such a practice can be a way to ethically give back to the community.
Katja Lee
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2022 The compound term fan-historian may be used to describe fans who engage in a wide range of memory, archival, and other past-focused fan work, which helps make sense of the past and makes it usable for their communities.
E. Charlotte Stevens, Nick Webber
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021 Editorial to "Fan Studies Pedagogies," edited by Paul Booth and Regina Yung Lee, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 35 (March 15, 2021).
Paul Booth, Regina Yung Lee
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Acafan Identity, Communities of Practice, and Vocational Poaching
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021 In a conceptualization and critique of the implications motivating a set of teaching and learning sessions designed to introduce undergraduate students to the professional role of location scouts and managers, two main interventions are offered.
Ross Peter Garner
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Fan studies and/as feminist methodology
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 Feminist cultural studies and feminist theory in genealogies of fan studies are taken for granted. However, the implications of feminist methodological and epistemological frameworks within discussions of fan studies methodology are more often inferred ...
Briony Hannell
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Negotiating acafandom as a first-time researcher
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 This reflection on positionality draws on experiences from undertaking an undergraduate writing research project involving a series of email/chat server interviews with fan fiction authors active on Archive of Our Own.
S. Eliza Ader
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Interview with Louisa Ellen Stein: Whole self and felt scholarship in fan studies
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 Fan studies scholar Louisa Ellen Stein discusses her journey into felt scholarship and whole self scholarship in fan studies. Her fannish interests and personal identities are varied and affect her scholarship in different ways.
Julia E. Largent +2 more
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Toward some fanons of fan studies
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 Editorial for guest-edited issue, "Fan Studies Methodologies," Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 33 (June 15, 2020).
Julia E. Largent +2 more
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"She's a fan, but this was supposed to be scientific": Fan misunderstandings and acafan mistakes
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 I here reflect on my first forays into fan studies, two separate projects on fans' reactions to Tom Hiddleston's short-lived relationship with Taylor Swift. After discovering live tweets of my 2018 Fan Studies Network presentation that included yet-to-be-
Daisy Pignetti
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