There’s much to look forward to in this epic conversation series. So if you would like to participate and represent those countries, reach out to me at and I will do my best to get you paired off. I am especially interested in filling holes from the Global South. I am still open to further participants, but only if they come from countries which are not currently represented. The series is currently scheduled to run from Mid-October through late April, representing all together 25 pairings of participants. I am thrilled by the scope and diversity of participation but also painfully aware of absences here.Įach week, we will present opening statements from 2-3 scholars doing loosely related work, whether organized around shared objects or themes, followed by several posts worth of back and forth conversations among them about whatever these statements inspired. The terminology here is challenging - global, transnational, transcultural will all crop up in our discussion here. To date, the series has participants from almost 40 countries. I spent time this summer tapping my various networks seeking to identify early career scholars - advanced PhD candidates, junior faculty, independent scholars - who were doing work on fandom broadly defined to include cult media, comics, sports, and music - and who were willing to engage in conversations with other scholars doing similar work somewhere else on the planet. I have sought to map fandom and fandom studies across as many different countries as I can. This year, I am putting this blog, Confessions of an Aca-Fan, into the service of an ambitious project.
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