In #TWC46's first New Currents article, @julianeugarten.bsky.social explores the potential of a suite of natural language processing and machine learning tools to examine power and gender dynamics in fan fiction featuring characters from Greek mythology! Read it here:

Opening #TWC46's New Currents on Fans and AI, guest editors @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @ladylark.bsky.social identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom & fan studies arising from AI and suggest what the consequences might be. Read the editorial here:

#TWC46 features our first ever section titled New Currents! This section collects articles on new topics or approaches at a smaller scale than a special issue. In this issue, New Currents focuses on how fans and fan studies scholars engage with AI as a tool for transformative engagement! Stay tuned!

Taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to share some horror-related articles from our Archive!

#TWC46's Article section ends with @janpoi.bsky.social's "Intergenerational dynamics of children's music fandom: An enculturation perspective"! This study of intergenerational music fandom, also looks at the continuation of fannish attachments and practices over time. Read it here:

For #TWC46, James Brooks Kuykendall turns our attention to historical fan studies in his analysis of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society! Read "Fandom and the early years of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society (1924–45)" today:

In "Beyond the "fandom as religion" comparison: Measuring the sacred dimensions of Comic-Con fan devotion," Michael A. Elliott & Marissa Mowers challenge scholarship that considers fandom as a type of religious devotion via an exploration of Comic-Con attendees. Read it in #TWC46:

For #TWC46, @thekateprior.bsky.social offers a quantitative analysis of both platonic and romantic Spider-Man fan fiction in "Daddy issues/daddy kink: Remixing masculine authority in Spider-Man fan fiction"! Read it here:

In "Young women and fan fiction: Motives, reading practices, and reader types," Darina Valiakhmetova, Diana Shchelkanova, and Oxana Mikhaylova expand beyond the anglophone world with their work on Russian fan fiction readers! Read it in #TWC46:

In #TWC46, Jaime W. Roots shares her method for promoting knowledge development and critical reflection in classes through fan fiction writing! Read it here: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

In #TWC46, Kelsey Cummings's analysis of real person fiction (#RPF) reveals the importance of cultural and political context to RPF in their Article, "Real enough: Power and politics in real person fiction"! Read it here:

Ye Jiang's article in #TWC46 expands our understanding of the politics of Omegaverse fic by focusing on Chinese fans, whose localization of the genre's norms is complex and progressive. Read "Navigating gender in censored Chinese A/B/O fiction" now:

Next in #TWC46, Caitlin Joyce's ethnographic study of a #BL community reveals how queer men use BL texts to explore their identities and desires. Read Joyce's article, ""I wish my life was like this": Queer identity work in BL fandom," here:

Clare Sears shines a light on how femslash writers view their labor and contributions to their communities in their #TWC46 Article, "Come as you are: Sex, race, and writing in f/f slash fan fiction communities"! Read it here:

In "Surviving Armageddon (aka COVID-19) through "Good Omens: Lockdown" fan fiction," Rachel Loewen demonstrates how fans created health messaging that spoke to intersectional audiences through #GoodOmens fic! Read the Article in #TWC46:

Next up in #TWC46, Taylor Drake's analyzes how fans with eating disorders negotiate anti-anorexia messaging in media in "Disordered eating, disordered reading: Wintergirls and the fannish practices of pro-ana"! Read it here:

*NOT* about the game. In the new issue of @journal.transformativeworks.org "...this discourse analysis of otaku users' experiences with Waifu Labs, an AI anime portrait generator, suggests an alternative perspective on the relationships between human and AI." doi.org/10.3983/twc....

The first Article in #TWC46, by @takakusa.bsky.social, explores how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the fannish lives of anime song fans in Japan, highlighting the ways that in-person activities are often crucial to fans' social and mental wellbeing. Read it here:

My first journal article has officially been published! 🎉 journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

come copyedit for @journal.transformativeworks.org !

In the opening editorial for #TWC46, coeditors @melstanfill.bsky.social and Poe Johnson focus on diversifying "the scholarly grounds upon which we do our work" and aim to "make room for the fandom killjoys (Pande 2018) & troublemakers who can unsettle those foundations"! Read more:

My lovely friend Naomi Jacobs (@ladylark.bsky.social) and I wanted to explore the repercussions of the new-found prevalence of AI on fans, fandom and fan studies. Some excellent scholars contributed articles to a special section of @journal.transformativeworks.org, which is out now! Enjoy!

Proud to see my article 'Using Riveter to map gendered power dynamics in Hades/Persephone fan fiction' in @journal.transformativeworks.org, my favorite academic journal. Want to know how fanfiction portrays power dynamics between these two? Read on! journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

📣 #TWC is excited to announce the publication of #TWC46, our annual general issue! This issue, however, holds some new and exciting features. Dig in at this link: buff.ly/EHJTStO

I'm really excited that a collection of fascinating work on fandom, fans and AI that @suzannerblack.bsky.social and I co-edited is out today in the new volume of @journal.transformativeworks.org - and as the journal's first 'New Currents' section! Read our editorial here doi.org/10.3983/twc....

In 2019, we published #TWC31, a special issue on Fan Fiction and Ancient Scribal Cultures guest-edited by Frauke Uhlenbruch and Sonja Ammann! This special issue explores the potential of fan fiction as an interpretative model to study ancient religious texts. Explore it here:

NEW CFP ALERT! 📣 Check out the details of our upcoming special issue on Latin American Fandoms guest edited by Yazmín Carrizales and Libertad Garzón at the following link: buff.ly/9PupLIf ! Deadline is 1/1/2026!

NEW CFP ALERT 📣 Check out the details of our upcoming special issue on Music Fandom guest edited by @jenessawilliams.bsky.social & @lucykbennett.bsky.social at the follow link: buff.ly/YDOflaI...! Deadline is 01/01/2026!

Our 2025 Fans of Color prize-winning Article was published in #TWC44, our special issue on “Centering Blackness in Fan Studies,” on December 15, 2024. You can read it here: buff.ly/sycJso7

In 2019, @alexandriagriffin.bsky.social explores how fan works use #Daredevil as a site from which to examine and debate Catholicism and queerness! Read their Symposium piece from #TWC31 here:

In #TWC17, Shannon Fay Johnson explored models of fan fiction tagging in "Fan fiction metadata creation and utilization within fan fiction archives: Three primary models". This 2014 Article explores advantages and shortcomings in different models! Read it here:

NEW CFP ALERT 📣 Check out the details of our upcoming special issue on Music Fandom guest edited by @jenessawilliams.bsky.social & @lucykbennett.bsky.social at the follow link: buff.ly/YDOflaI...! Deadline is 01/01/2026!

NEW CFP ALERT! 📣 Check out the details of our upcoming special issue on Latin American Fandoms guest edited by Yazmín Carrizales and Libertad Garzón at the following link: buff.ly/9PupLIf ! Deadline is 1/1/2026!

Our 2025 Fans of Color prize-winning Article was published in #TWC44, our special issue on “Centering Blackness in Fan Studies,” on December 15, 2024. You can read it here: buff.ly/sycJso7

If you're researching #fandoms, #DIY, #zines or other forms of creative expression related to fan cultures, this CFP might be for you? Special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures on Music Fandom. Deadline for final articles 1 Jan 2026. For more info see the link!

Attention! 🪧 Submissions were so strong for our 2025 Fans of Color prize! So, TWC also awarded an Honorable Mention to "Public reception of young K-pop fans in Vietnam, 2011–19", by Becky Pham! Read the article here: buff.ly/My2hJcy

We're excited to announce Kristen Leer and @moniermel.bsky.social as the winners of the 2025 Fans of Color Prize for their article "Since the Moment Pictures Could Move, We Had Skin in the Game"! Read our full announcement and interview with both authors here: buff.ly/QhApARV

Can someone please do an analysis of modern fan discourses in K-pop demon hunters for this cfp please I would like that very much I do not have time or enough K-pop knowledge

EXCITING NEWS 📣 #TWC is officially launching a new section of the journal titled Multimedia, spearheaded by our newly (re)named Symposium & Multimedia Editors. You can read more about this decision here: buff.ly/TpjX9PG

NEW CFP ALERT! 📣 Check out the details of our upcoming special issue on Latin American Fandoms guest edited by Yazmín Carrizales and Libertad Garzón at the following link: buff.ly/9PupLIf ! Deadline is 1/1/2026!

Be sure to follow @journal.transformativeworks.org to get the latest on research into fans, audiences, and transformative works!

Can’t wait to read this

Oooh deciding what to submit for this is gonna be hard

Calling all music fandom researchers; hit us with your best ideas!

Very good read. Glad to have it in my shelf

NEW CFP ALERT 📣 Check out the details of our upcoming special issue on Music Fandom guest edited by @jenessawilliams.bsky.social & ‪@lucykbennett.bsky.social at the follow link: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...! Deadline is 01/01/2026!

#TWC is wholly run by volunteers, as is true for all of ‪@transformativeworks.org‬! Ever wonder who those volunteers are? Check out our full Editorial Team here:

Don't forget! We are still accepting submissions (through 01/01/2026) for our upcoming special issue on Latin American Fandoms! See the full CFP here:

Stevie Leigh's article "Fan fiction as a valuable literacy practice" was published in #TWC34! This article argues for more use of fan fiction in the classroom and emphasizes that fan fiction is a crucial and valuable practice. Read it here: