Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works. TWC publishes articles about transformative works, broadly conceived; articles about media studies; and articles about the fan community. We invite papers in all areas, including fan fiction, fan vids, film, TV, anime, comic books, fan community, video games, and machinima. We encourage a variety of critical approaches, including feminism, gender studies, queer theory, postcolonial theory, audience theory, reader-response theory, literary criticism, film studies, and posthumanism. We also encourage authors to consider writing personal essays integrated with scholarship; hyperlinked articles; or other forms that test the limits of the genre of academic writing.
Board
Nancy Baym, U of Kansas -
Rebecca Black, UC Irvine -
Will Brooker, Kingston U -
Rhiannon Bury, Athabasca U -
Wendy Chun, Brown U -
Melissa Click, U of Missouri -
Abigail De Kosnik, UC Berkeley -
Paul Draper, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith U -
Catherine Driscoll, U of Sydney -
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona C -
Sam Ford, Convergence Culture Consortium -
Jonathan Gray, U of Wisconsin -
Judith Halberstam, USC -
C. Lee Harrington, Miami U -
Heather Hendershot, City U of New York -
Matt Hills, Cardiff U -
Henry Jenkins, USC -
Derek Johnson, U of Wisconsin -
Roz Kaveney, Independent -
Derek Kompare, Southern Methodist U -
Anne Kustritz, Brockport College-SUNY -
Elana Levine, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee -
Geoffrey Long, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab -
Mark McLelland, U of Wollongong -
Farah Mendlesohn, Middlesex U -
Helen Merrick, Curtin U of Technology -
Jason Mittell, Middlebury C -
Lori Morimoto, Indiana U -
Roberta Pearson, U of Nottingham -
Sheenagh Pugh, U of Glamorgan -
Aswin Punathambekar, U of Michigan -
Bob Rehak, Swarthmore C -
Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M-Commerce -
Sharon Ross, Columbia C Chicago -
Cornel Sandvoss, U of Surrey -
Avi Santo, Old Dominion -
Louisa Stein, San Diego State U -
Catherine Tosenberger, U of Winnipeg
Upcoming issues
- No. 5, September 15, 2010: General issue (CLOSED)
- No. 6, March 15, 2011: Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction special issue (close date: May 15, 2010)
- No. 7, June 15, 2011: Race and Ethnicity in Fandom special issue (close date: October 1, 2010)
- No. 8, September 15, 2011: General issue (close date: March 1, 2011)
- No. 9, March 15, 2012: Fan/Remix Video special issue (close date: April 1, 2011)
- No. 10, March 15, 2012: Transformative Works and Fan Activism special issue (close date: April 1, 2011)
- No. 11, September 15, 2012: Nationbending (Avatar: The Last Airbender) special issue (close date: November 1, 2011)
Announcements
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Special issue: Transformative Works and Fan Activism (March 2012) |
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We invite submissions to a special issue on Transformative Works and Fan Activism guest edited by Henry Jenkins and Sangita Shresthova (University of Southern California).
Contributions are due April 1, 2011, and interested submitters are encouraged to contact the guest editors with their ideas. |
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| Posted: 2010-05-25 |
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Special issue: Nationbending (September 2012) |
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TWC is pleased to announce an upcoming special issue on Nationbending, focusing on Avatar: The Last Airbender (September 2012), guest edited by Madeline Ashby.
The complete call for papers is under the jump. Please disseminate widely! |
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| Posted: 2010-05-11 |
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Special issue: Fan/Remix Video (March 2012) |
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TWC is pleased to announce an upcoming special issue on Fan/Remix Video (March 2012), guest edited by Francesca Coppa and Julie Levin Russo.
The complete call for papers is under the jump. Please disseminate widely! |
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| Posted: 2010-05-05 |
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Vol 4 (2010)
"Saving People, Hunting Things," special Supernatural issue of TWC guest edited by Catherine Tosenberger, University of Winnipeg
Table of Contents
Editorial
| Love! Valor! "Supernatural"! |
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Catherine Tosenberger |
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Praxis
Symposium
| Tlon, fandom, and source texts: The effect of fan works on the narrative of "Supernatural" |
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Deepa Sivarajan |
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| "What you don't know": "Supernatural" fan vids and millennial theology |
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Louisa Ellen Stein |
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| What are little ghouls made of? The "Supernatural" family, fandom, and the problem of Adam |
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Kristin Noone |
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| "Supernatural" bodies: Writing subjugation and resistance onto Sam and Dean Winchester |
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Suzette Chan |
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| Infernal redemption |
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Babak Zarin |
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| From canon to fanon and back again: The epic journey of "Supernatural" and its fans |
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Melissa Gray |
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| "I'm glad we got burned, think of all the things we learned": Fandom conflict and context in Counteragent's "Still Alive" |
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Katharina Freund |
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| A box of mirrors, a unicorn, and a pony |
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Jules Wilkinson |
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Interview
| Interview with Keith R. A. DeCandido |
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Catherine Tosenberger |
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| Interview with the Super-wiki admin team |
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Deborah Kaplan |
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| Interview with Wincon organizer Ethrosdemon |
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Review
| "In the hunt: Unauthorized essays on 'Supernatural,'" edited by Supernatural.tv |
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Alysa Hornick |
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| "Supernatural role playing game," by J. Chambers |
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Douglas Schules |
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| "Scare tactics: Supernatural fiction by American women," by Andrew Jeffrey Weinstock |
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Germán Gil-Curiel |
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| "Contemporary Gothic," by Catherine Spooner |
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Martin Fradley |
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| "Haunting experiences: Ghosts in contemporary folklore," by Diane E. Goldstein et al. |
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Linda Levitt |
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| "Pretend we're dead," by Annalee Newitz |
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Christopher M. Moreman |
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