New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Lyan, Irina. 2025. “Waving a Korean Flag: Between Hallyu, Fandom, and Nationalism”. Korea Europe Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics, Society, and Economics, no. 9 (December). #FanStudies doi.org/10.48770/ker....

“Quenya is practically a main character: Elvish-English multilingualism in Tolkien-inspired fan-fictions”, Gloria Comandini & Francesco Dedè doi.org/10.13135/238... [EN] [15 p.] On the use of Quenya in Tolkien fanfiction #elvish #quenya #tolkien #lotr #thehobbit #fictionallanguages 6/6

“Fanfiction in Esperanto – Esperanto in Fanfiction”, Martine Mussies doi.org/10.59718/ees... [EN] [26 p.] On Esperanto’s presence in fanfiction #esperanto #europe #constructedlanguages 4/6

“Online Fanfiction for Language Teaching and Learning”, Shannon Sauro doi.org/10.4000/alsi... [EN] [13 p.] On how to include fanfiction in a formal educational context, with concrete examples #teaching 2/6

“Welsh Language Fanfiction in Light of Welsh Cultural and National Identity and Language Revitalisation”, Nikola Zduńczyk, Marta Rogulska, Daniel Sokulski doi.org/10.14746/scp... [EN] [24 p.] On Welsh-language fanfiction readers and writers #welsh #wales #cymru #cymraeg #nationalism 5/6

Today is 🥼 Academic Review day! Given the lack of academic papers on fanfiction and Christmas, I exceptionally deviate from this week’s theme to offer you some articles on fanfiction and language! #fanfiction #fanstudies #linguistics #languages 1/6

“Fanfiction as an Academic Tool for Advanced Language Fluency: A Study”, R. Surya & M. Aiswarya doi.org/10.17762/tur... [EN] [6 p.] On the use of fanfiction as a practice of English as a foreign language, with a sample survey of fanfiction readers #teaching 3/6

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Xu, Y., & Chen, J. (2025). From multimodal making to meaning: Transmedia storytelling and interdisciplinary assessment in higher education. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 1–16. doi.org/10.1080/1470...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Zhang, K., Tan, C., & Zhao, Y. (2025). Playing cosplay seriously: exploring cosplay as a form of serious leisure. Leisure Studies, 1–19. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/0261...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ The Handmaid’s Tale polysemic affects: Symbolism, cosplay and performance of the Handmaid in UK protest Kam Meakin Studies in Costume & Performance doi.org/10.1386/scp_...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Neill Hoch, I. (2025). Lies of P and a real boy in fake Bloodborne: Nostalgia and critique in Soulsborne fandom. Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, 16(2), 117–137. doi.org/10.7557/ejcg...

#2 was @briony.bsky.social discussing the fascinating Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr newbooksnetwork.com/feminist-fan...

✨GIFCon is back for 2026! ✨ We’re very excited to launch the Call for Papers for GIFCon 2026, with the theme “Technologies of the Fantastic” You can find out more here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

SFFTV 18.3 (a special issue on the Dark Fantastic guest-edited by S.R. Toliver and Autumn A. Griffin) is now live! This is a special one (including SFFTV's first venture into creative praxis). TOC and articles for subscribers at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3

New chapter ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Stever, Gayle S., and Rebecca Tukachinsky Forster, 'The Psychology of Fandom and Parasocial Experience', in Karen E. Shackleford, and Nicholas D. Bowman (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology, 2nd edn, Oxford Library of Psychology. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ PAN, S., (2025) “Tielian in Mixed Realism: Real Person Fan Fiction and Collective Memory in Contemporary Chinese Fandom”, Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images 5(1). #FanStudies doi.org/10.3998/gs.7...

@journal.transformativeworks.org published an amazing fanzine on the theme of friendships in fandoms. It's really nice to read about what is, essentially, the core and result of many fandoms ! You can read it for free on their website : www.transformativeworks.org/fandom-frien... #zine #fandom

Irissa Cisternino & Rebecca Radillo do a great job of laying out the stakes for creativity, especially fan creativity, in the wake of gen AI. They ask what it means to outsource 'labors of love' to a tool, a similar question asked by @elizabethminkel.bsky.social in ellipsus.com/blog/generat...

New issue of Journal of Anime and Manga Studies now available on open access! Ghibli/Loewe collabotation, Vision of Escaflowne, Attack on Titan, Akira, Junji Ito, Kaori Yuki and more! Plus back issues available on iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams

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Call for proposals We invite proposals for a new book series, Twenty-First Century Musical Theatre, which will focus on contemporary musical theatre on stages or screens anywhere in the world. Find out more 👉https://ow.ly/vjSL50XKg9G

New in Feminist Media Studies ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Gur-Ze’ev, H., & Kligler-Vilenchik, N. (2025). “Joss is (no longer?) Boss”: three layers of cancelling in the Joss Whedon fan community. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/1468...

A festive blog post from Henry Jenkins ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Fandom as Consumer Collective: Christmas Trees as Fannish Display #FanStudies henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/12...

New in Journal of Popular Music Studies ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Vibes, gender and musical affordance on the internet: A study of the Lofi Girl fandom and community Iván Navarro Flores, Jenessa N. Williams & Ivan Mouraviev #FanStudies online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...

Intellect is pleased to announce that East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 11.2 is out now! Including ‘‘It’s nuts or nothin’: Grotesque, carnival and postmodernism in Chainsaw Man’ by Ryan Johnson #PopularCulture Access the issue via discover👉 https://ow.ly/6tVJ50XJM6c

Amber Moore and Kaye Hare keep the focus on Nancy Drew and close this Special Issue with their article "Romance, Eroticism, and Intimacy in a Work of Nancy Drew Fanfiction: Cross-Reading Personal Pedagogies and Literacies": doi.org/10.70138/ORZ... #RomanceResearch

Apparently I'm out in paperback! And it looks to be on sale, so if you're looking for a £35 stocking stuffer, boy do I have a recommendation for you... #fanstudies

SIG members: We're compiling a list of fan- and audience studies publications by our members that came out in 2025. Enter yours here by Dec. 31, and we'll compile a list to share: forms.gle/V7zsgTowJahU...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Baudinette, T. (2025). Theorizing the Feminist Potentials of Japanese Women’s Fandom for Male Idols Through Usami Rin’s Oshi, Moyu. Japanese Studies, 1–18. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/1037...

New article in International Journal of Cultural Studies ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Gonzales, Y., Feng, F., Tecson, S., & Crowe, K. (2025). “Fixing” race across the Pacific: Transcultural reinterpretations in the Genshin Impact fandom. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1177/1367...

Call for Papers: The Third International Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference The Technologies of Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference University of Nottingham Ningbo China Date: 23–25 October 2026 live-china-uon.cloud.contensis.com/en/humanitie...

Hey academic humans, if you have a new book in film and media studies and want to do a podcast interview for the New Books Network about it, DM me. Or if you want someone in your discipline to interview you, fill out this form: newbooksnetwork.com/authors

cool work at #CHR2025 by @julianeugarten.bsky.social on the sentiment trajectories in fanfiction! @comphumresearch.bsky.social

My thesis abstract 🔥 "Over the last ten years, Japanese animation series–or anime–fans have often been associated with digital right-wing communities of the alternative web. This is better observed in anime been called an aesthetic of the “alt-right” by its most powerful actors ...

Closing out #TWC46 is Fiona Katie Haborak's review of Elizabeth Affuso & @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social's edited collection, "Sartorial Fandom"! Read the full review here:

🚨CFP Alert!🚨 "TV Matters" is a new series of short monographs (40K-50K words) on TV series- production history, cultural context, main themes, & fandom/audience reception Have a series you want to write on? Send short pitch! 🔗 www.intellectbooks.com/tv-matters #FanStudies #MediaStudies

Journal of Popular Music Education 9.2 is out now! Including ‘Defying gravity in the classroom: A critical pedagogy for analysing Wicked: Part One’ by Drew X. Coles. Access the issue via discover 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/jpme/9/2

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Bryant, E., & Gadir, T. (2025). Kylie Minogue as a gay icon: artistic reinvention as coming out, drag aesthetics and the diva. Continuum, 39(6), 950–968. doi.org/10.1080/1030...

New issue of East Asian Journal of Popular Culture ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Focuses on transnational circulation of East Asian popular culture, incl: K-drama fandom in Indonesia, K-pop & Japanese visual kei in Chile & the Blackpink concert in post-pandemic Hong Kong #FanStudies www.intellectbooks.com/east-asian-j...

New article in International Journal of Cultural Studies ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Gonzales, Y., Feng, F., Tecson, S., & Crowe, K. (2025). “Fixing” race across the Pacific: Transcultural reinterpretations in the Genshin Impact fandom #FanStudies doi.org/10.1177/1367...

New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Fandom Nationalism Participatory Censorship and Performative Patriotism in East Asia Erika Ningxin Wang & Qian Huang #FanStudies www.bloomsbury.com/us/fandom-na...

New book chapter in Gender, Intimacy, and Class in a Changing China Homohysteric Engagement and Male Bonding: Male Chinese Sports Fans and Athletic Bromances Altman Yuzhu Peng, Fengshu Liu, Chunyan Wu #FanStudies www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Decolonizing Media Fandom Disability, Race, and Marvel Superhero Fans Divya Garg #FanStudies uipress.uiowa.edu/books/decolo...

Excited to announce that we are hosting the BDiGRA (British Digital Games Research Association) 2026 Conference at the University of South Wales. Conference Announcement and Call For Papers below bdigra.co.uk/bdigra-2026-...

Got a burning hot piece of music fan studies research? There's still time to submit to our special issue! As a reminder, we welcome the following formats: Articles (8k max words) Symposium (4k max words) Book Reviews (2.5k max words) Multimedia: 10 images or 5–8 minutes of audiovisual content.

The deadline is approaching for 2(!) upcoming special issues CFPs! Both Music Fandom and Latin American Fandoms have a January 1st submission deadline--don't miss your chance! Find more information on our front page:

Some fantastic articles on fandom in this new special issue of Social Media + Society on Platform Economies in Digital Asia ⬇️⬇️⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

"The best of fandom isn't transactional. It’s moments of unlikely connection between strangers or friends who might not have crossed paths, let alone traveled them together, if not for loving the same thing." @kaytiburt.bsky.social on fan tourism—and how to make it collaborative, not extractive:

Call for Papers: The Third International Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference The Technologies of Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference University of Nottingham Ningbo China Date: 23–25 October 2026 live-china-uon.cloud.contensis.com/en/humanitie...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices, Rukmini Pande (2020) By Sarah Breyfogle doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...