My first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by @lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026! It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory. See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.

"The real question here isn’t why Heated Rivalry is a hit—it’s why this kind of romance series is so rare in the first place." The great @gavia.bsky.social returns to Fansplaining with an incisive piece on Heated Rivalry, romance publishing, and the TV industry. Read or listen to an audio version:

🚨 1 WEEK ALERT 🚨 Applications to join the FSNNA Organizing Committee close in 1 WEEK (Jan 31)! If you are interested in volunteering on the committee PLEASE make sure to fill out the form!! You can find more info & the application form here: forms.gle/6WT5BXkNMHjM... #FanStudies #FandomStudies

🚨 *insert alarm sounds* 🚨 It's time to announce our 2025 FSNNA #FanStudies Conference's 3rd headliner... It's DR. ALFRED L. MARTIN!! He's an assoc. prof (Uni of Miami) & will be leading the session on Oct. 26- "Rejecting the Reputed Center of #ReceptionStudies: #Blackness, #Capital, and Power"

Congrats to one of our 2025 FSNNA Conference headliners Mel Stanfill!!! Make sure to register for our #fanstudies virtual conference if you want to be able to attend their roundtable on Oct 25! ▫️Registration 🔗: www.tickettailor.com/events/fanst...

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..."

📣 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

📯 *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"

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!

#TWC42, published last year, is a special issue focused on Fandom and Platforms! Guest edited by @mariakalberto.bsky.social, @effietheant.bsky.social, & @lesleyawillard.bsky.social, this issue emphasizes putting forward platforms in fan studies! Read it here:

Attention scholars in #rhetoric #mediastudies #socialsciences #fanstudies #americanstudies #politics #literature #arts #history #globalstudies #english #music Have you applied to the 2025 Fan Studies Network NA Conference? Submissions are open until Monday, May 19! Full CFP: tinyurl.com/mvkhfd7n

Just a few more days to submit to the FSNNA 2025 #fanstudies conference! Our theme this year is Reputation: Influence, Power, & Capital. 🤔Pick from: poster OR poster + talk ✍️Due: Abstract, bio, keywords ⏰Deadline: Monday, May 19 Full CFP & form here: fsn-northamerica.org/2025/04/11/g...

#scms25 @effietheant.bsky.social describing how by using TikTok, fans can not just request representation, but actively edit themselves and culturally meaningful things (like HBCU practices) into storyworlds.

Next up is @effietheant.bsky.social on Collaborative (Re)Construction: Community and Storyworlds on TikTok. #scms25

🚨Settings->Siri->Apps->(pick an app)->UNCHECK LEARN FROM THIS APP🚫.🚨 Congratulations, now A.I. won't be learning from your apps without your permission on your iPhone. Took me a bit with a gazillion apps, but easy to do.

Thank you so much to @elizabethminkel.bsky.social & @flourishklink.bsky.social for having me!! If anyone wants to hear me talk about my research and all the fun quirks of self-inserts, check out this episode of @fansplaining.bsky.social!

In #TWC42's editorial, "Putting forward platforms in fan studies," editors @mariakalberto.bsky.social, @effietheant.bsky.social & @lesleyawillard.bsky.social focus on platforms as foundations and the importance of a collective understanding of and attention to them. Read more here: bit.ly/43qSinR

So excited this is finally out in the world!

My review of @Ebonyteach & @readingspark's edited collection "Harry Potter and the Other" quietly dropped on Christmas Eve in the latest issue of @jofpopcult! If you or your institution have access, you can read my review here (spoiler: I loved it!):

Everyone is loving the go karts at #FSNNA23, but I can't get enough of the dogs!

goodbye #SCMS23!

ready for day 1! #SCMS23

headed to #SCMS23 in Denver! ☺️

that’s a yikes from me

this just feels rude #MerrilyOnBway

#FanStudies friends! @llegrarosenberg and I are putting together a roundtable on recursive fandoms for #FSNNA22 -- send either one of us a DM if you'd like to join! @FSNNorthAmerica

Hi #FSNNA22 ! Is anyone interested in constructing a roundtable with me that is focused on fandom and new media platforms, ie TikTok? OR, a roundtable on the creation of OCs and their fandoms? OR, a roundtable on fictagging? I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS! @FSNNorthAmerica #FanStudies

#WesternU I'm running for Board of Governors and the polls just opened! Find out why you should vote for me by clicking here: 🥰

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excited to officially announce that i'm the new Outreach and Communications Editor at Transformative Works and Cultures @OTW_News #twc 🥳

Catch me talking about #fanstudies, #HarryPotter (duh) and #TikTok in 20 mins (!) at #PCAACA21

just gave my first full conference presentation on #fanstudies (aka not a poster session)! that surge of adrenaline....! #ccacc21

Currently attending a webinar wherein profs are emphasizing that receiving negative feedback from students on their teaching methods means that these methods should CONTINUE because 'you've clearly hit a pressure point' is just.... (1/2)

if I hear a government official start a sentence with “now more than ever” one more time, I swear

My first time at #SCMS and I’m kicking #SCMS21 off with B10 “New/Old, Archive/Platform: Histories of Media Fandom” feat a stellar cast incl my badass friend @MariaKAlberto 👏🏻🎉 #fanstudies #scmsfaasB10

everyone: your christmas tree is already up?? me: WE 👏🏻 DESERVE 👏🏻 AN 👏🏻EXTENDED 👏🏻 HOLIDAY 👏🏻SEASON 👏🏻 IN 👏🏻 2020

we (@DireJackalope and I) have created a discord server for #fanstudies graduate students! dm me and I'll send you the invite link!

if anyone's looking for me this week, i'll (virtually) be at #FSNNA20 and unavailable for... anything else 🤓

maybe this is silly but I am heartbroken right now about ruth bader ginsburg

INCREDIBLE conversation this afternoon with @RukminiPande following our reading of Squee from the Margins as part of our #fanstudies reading group 😍

The #FSNNA20 hashtag is getting me SO excited! I'll be doing a poster presentation on (you guessed it) Harry Potter fanfiction but I also can't wait to see everyone's amazing work! Might just block off all 3-4 days for *just* FSNNA goodness

really not a fan of the fact that I now live somewhere that gets tornado warnings 😬

#fanstudies : let's say you were doing your comprehensive exam on fan studies [fanfiction/young adult media focus], what would be your must-reads on that list? asking for a friend... 😅

the journal of fandom studies is looking for reviewers for the following books (threaded)! email me at [email protected] if interested #fanstudies

had a lovely chat with our #FanReads group & @iheartfatapollo (thank you SO much for joining us and being so generous with your time!) about her book #FakeGeekGirls earlier today and am feeling v motivated & intellectually/fannishly stimulated 🤓💪🏻