We are presenting the most read articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last 6 months. This week's article is “‘I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans of Gone with the Wind negotiate anti-racist criticism”, authored by Marcel van den Haak, Liedeke Plate, and Selina Bick.

The CfP for the 1st themed issue of our journal Fandom | Cultures | Research is out & I'm especially excited for this one, since it combines two of the things I'm most interested in: #fanstudies & #memorystudies. Added bonus: a workshop in Marburg in Feb 26. journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...

Your weekend read! 💓 @bookshop.bsky.social digs into the complicated intersections between the skyrocketing Kpop Demon Hunters fandom vs the (real) K-pop industry & fans. As always, if you prefer listening, we've got a full audio version along with the text! www.fansplaining.com/articles/kpo...

Gather round my friends- It's time to announce our 2nd headliner for the 2025 FSNNA Conference It's DR. MEL STANFILL!! They're a media studies scholar & associate prof (University of Central Florida) & will be leading a roundtable session on Oct. 25th titled " #Fandom Is..."

In 2005, Twilight’s adolescent female readership made it a target for mockery. Today, that same demographic is the most coveted in publishing.

I've got a chapter in this collection on The X-Files (obviously) and have just found it it's available for pre-order from McFarland's website. I can't wait to read the rest of the essays. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...

Publishing today! From village rituals and fairytales to UFOs and fanfiction, witches, wizards and wickermen, British folklore is a living tradition that continues on. Available from all good bookshops and online now. @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social @odavies9.bsky.social #folklore #booksky

"Reylo and Dramione booms function like media franchises for book publishing, banking on and extending the reach of reliably lucrative IP. For publishing houses, it’s a clear win. These books can cash in on fannish enthusiasm through an always plausibly deniable connection to the fannish property."

📯 *cue trumpet noise* Announcing our 1st headliner for the 2025 FSNNA Conference 🥁 It's DR. ERIKA NINGXIN WANG!! She's an assistant prof (the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) & will be leading a panel on Oct. 24th titled " #Fandom #Nationalism: Comparative Insights from East Asia"

Fandom | Cultures | Research Call for Abstracts - Themed Issue 2/26 & Accompanying Workshop: “Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance” #FanStudies journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...

New special issue of Popular Communication Queer Women's Fandom #FanStudies www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/2...

CFP: DLC+ Presents Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference: "Smut" and "Lore" #FanStudies docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New article in Pacific Affairs ⬇️⬇️⬇️ "Fandom Makes the World Go Round: Institutional Entrepreneurship and Cultural Translation among Hallyu Fans" #FanStudies www.ingentaconnect.com/content/paaf...

This is all to say, I’m fascinated by what motivates fans to buy makeup and how they feel when they wear it, if you know of anyone 18 years or older who might have insights, please consider sharing this survey with them!

Congrats to SIG member @melstanfill.bsky.social whose new book FANDOM IS UGLY won the NCA's annual book award!

Last week I defended my thesis, "Yearning Hours: Desire, Darcymania, and Readerly Attachments in the Digital Jane Austen Fandom," published by Linköping University Press. It can now be ordered to your local library (or hmu for the PDF 🥰)!

It was an absolute pleasure to review @briony.bsky.social's brilliant book on feminist fandom for the EJCS. If you haven't bought her book yet (or forgot to ask your university library to purchase it), please let my review convince you to do so immediately: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Film International Special Issue Calls for Papers: ‘Transnational Horror Culture in Cinema’ This themed issue of Film International will explore the complex relationship between horror culture per se and cinematic expression. Deadline: 30 Nov 2025 👉ow.ly/XRiK50WZfAf

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...

one for the fan fiction (studies) crowd. my interview study with 23 femslash writers about sex, race, and writing is published in this issue. big thanks to the fic writers who gave me their time and trust

All Eyes, No Ears: Why Virality Isn’t Building Fandom 30th Sep 2025 at 4:30 pm BST www.midiaresearch.com/events/all-e...

Have you ever purchased makeup or beauty projects based on your fandom? If you are 18 years or older, please fill out this 10 minute survey for a research project on embodied fan identities. Share widely! Contact with any questions: [email protected]. utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Video papers from Evolution of Story III: Having a Larp, now available to view on YouTube #FanStudies m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Asian Media and Cultural Studies Network event on K-pop Fandom ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #FanStudies

A while ago, Lincoln Geraghty, @acafanmom.bsky.social, @memorieschild.bsky.social & myself did a special issue on “The Past, Present & Future of Fan Fiction”. This is now being reprinted in book format, & available for download for free #FanStudies www.mdpi.com/books/reprin...

Do you have experience copyediting or proofreading academic journals? Would you like to wrangle #AO3 tags? Can you read and translate from Chinese or Italian to English? Do you have experience in managing or leading people? The #OTW is Recruiting! otw-news.org/w8thejrv

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:

Angela Lansbury at 100: Celebrating her Stardom and Legacy Conference registration now open angelalansbury100.wordpress.com

📣 Calling all #FanStudies scholars & nerds! We are officially entering our Registration Era for our 2025 FSNNA virtual conference "Reputation: Influence, Power, & Capital"‼️ Registration 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/fanstudiesnetworknorthamerica1/1758163

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!

Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University tinyurl.com/2w2fuch6 #horrorNU

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...

Registration for the @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social conference is now open! Always a great event and all online Thu Oct 23 - Sun Oct 26, 2025 #FanStudies www.tickettailor.com/events/fanst...

Nee article in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Emotions in Fandom Crowdfunding: Investigating How Online Interactions Affect Collaborative Monetary Activities #FanStudies dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I'm in vol 1 of this but vol2 looks great also!

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Deng, Y., & Jiang, J. (2025). Emojis as mediators of digital communication: a social semiotic analysis of Taylor Swift’s Instagram posts. Popular Communication, 1–17. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/1540...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Anderton C, Goodge P. Alone in the Crowd? Live Music Audiences and Individual Experience. Popular Music. Published online 2025:1-15. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Annelot Prins reviewed Briony Hannell's "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" for us. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium “Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture” www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

📣 #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....

I really like the way Kpop Demon Hunters represents fandom, both the good and bad. (Your Idol, anyone?) So that's why I wrote a short read about the songs, Rumi's burn-out and more. Enjoy! #kpopdemonhunters nicollelamerichs.com/2025/09/15/r...

New essay on early 20th-century Gilbert and Sullivan fandom, by James Brooks Kuykendall, in the latest Transformative Works and Cultures (Vol. 46): doi.org/10.3983/twc....

Just got an email that they're doing a 2025 reprint of The Past, Present and Future of Fan-Fiction, which now is also free to download! Essays by a lot of good people: mdpi.com/books/reprin... #mdpi via @MDPI

i was interviewed in this article about harassment in fandom: collider.com/conservative...