research masterpost
links to my published research & posts about my 2020 dissertation
Publications on Fanbinding
These are articles I have published on fanbinding (it’s been a busy year, as you can see!) Thanks to @renegadepublishing for always supporting the work of aca-fans.
“Binding fan fiction and reexamining book production models.” Transformative Works and Culture (March 2022).
w/ Kim Kennedy, “Reframing Monetization: Compensatory Practices and Generating a Hybrid Economy in Fanbinding Commissions.” Humanities (May 2022).
w/ Kim Kennedy, “Fanbinding and a Community-Generated Information Environment.” Proceedings from the Document Academy (August 2022).
Follow the Fans: The Real Live Dissertation
you can read the dissertation in full at this Google Drive link! I will keep this research masterpost here in some form so that anyone interested can look at how things changed over time (if that’s your jam, god speed)
Yes, you can totally send this to your friends, that’s why it’s on the internet
If you are interested in citing this dissertation in further scholarly work, please message me. I will almost definitely say yes, but let’s talk about it! Especially if you’re interested in the bookbinding chapter, we should hash out any ethics issues before I sign off.
Intro to Le Stuff
what will you find on this blog?
what am I actually talking about?
affirmational v transformational fic
Assorted Rage Posts
AC - additional commentary; OP - original post
why fandom needs to confront its racism (among other things) [AC]
why fanfiction is folklore [AC]
why book history should pay attention to fanfiction [AC]
why unsolicited feedback doesn’t really fit in w fandom community [AC]
why snooty book culture is historically unfounded [AC]
why coffeeshop AUs are a modern pastoralist fantasy [AC]
why fanfiction is a descendent of women’s coterie manuscript practices [AC]
why the gendering of fandom marginalizes it [AC]
why we write out of spite [AC]
why intimacy is fundamental to fandom [AC]
why fic preservation is important [AC]
why fanfiction is a preservation mechanism [AC]
why people enter fandom obliquely [AC]
why Penguin Books has a Penguin logo (and other history too) [OP]
why the word ‘ghost’ has an ‘h’ in it [OP]
why contradictions in fandom are actually a good thing [AC]
why fandom vocabulary shifts [AC]
research progress posts below the cut























