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Negotiating acafandom as a first-time researcher [PDF]

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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Editorial policies, "public domain," and acafandom [PDF]

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2011
Transformative Works and Cultures' editorial policies are transformative in their own right, putting fans first and acknowledging the dual nature of acafans.
Francesca Musiani
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African American acafandom and other strangers: New genealogies of fan studies

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2015
Because scholars have paid insufficient attention to race in fan studies, a new genealogy of fan studies is needed, one that includes different kinds of primary and secondary texts that have explored responses of black fans.
Rebecca Wanzo
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The onus is not on us: Race and fan studies ten years after "African American acafandom and other strangers"

Transformative Works and Cultures
Rebecca Wanzo's landmark 2015 essay "African American Acafandom and Other Strangers" called for taking Black audiences, fandom, and critique seriously.
TWC Editor
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Historicizing the Fan Archive of Talia al Ghul

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2022
This personal essay reflects on an online fan archive for DC Comics character Talia al Ghul that was abandoned, after which time dramatic shifts in the fandom occurred, thereby situating the archive as an artifact of the recent historical past and as a ...
Tosha R. Taylor
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Teaching Fan Fiction: Affect and Analysis

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021
We reflect on the design and first iteration of an asynchronous online university English course focused on fan fiction, with a particular focus on the anticipated challenges of negotiating affect and analysis in the classroom and the structure of the ...
Kathryn Conrad, Jamie Hawley
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Fan studies, citation practices, and fannish knowledge production

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020
Mapping the fine line we walk as fan studies scholars engaging with fannish knowledge production.
Milena Popova
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Rhetorical moves in disclosing fan identity in fandom scholarship

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020
The position of the acafan in fan studies remains under negotiation, and authors must make choices about if and how identities as fans are disclosed within scholarship.
Adrienne E. Raw
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Placing fandom, studying fans: Modified acafandom in practice

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020
For nearly three decades, the field of fan studies has helped to shift the conversation on fandom from a study of pathological individuals to exploring how groups make use of and transform the contemporary media landscape. Fandom itself is also changing.
Abby Waysdorf
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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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