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 -
Paul Booth, DePaul U -
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 -
Elana Levine, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee -
Mark McLelland, U of Wollongong -
Farah Mendlesohn, Middlesex U -
Helen Merrick, Curtin U of Technology -
Jason Mittell, Middlebury C -
Lori Morimoto, Independent -
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 -
Julie Levin Russo, Brown U -
Cornel Sandvoss, U of Surrey -
Avi Santo, Old Dominion -
Catherine Tosenberger, U of Winnipeg
Upcoming issues
- No. 9, March 15, 2012: Fan/Remix Video (CLOSED)
- No. 10, June 15, 2012: Transformative Works and Fan Activism (CLOSED)
- No. 11, September 15, 2012: General issue (CLOSED)
- September 15, 2013: General issue (close date: January 1, 2013)
Special issues coming in 2013–2015
- Transnational Boys' Love Fan Studies (close date: March 1, 2012)
- Appropriating, Interpreting, and Transforming Comic Books (close date: April 1, 2012)
- Materiality and Object-Oriented Fandom (close date: March 1, 2013)
- Fandom and/as Labor (close date: March 1, 2013)
- Performing Fandom (close date: March 1, 2014)
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Special Issue CFP: Materiality and Object-Oriented Fandom (March 2014) |
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This special issue seeks historically and theoretically informed essays that explore the role of objects and their associated practices in fandom as instances of creativity and consumerism, transformation and affirmation, private archive and public display. We are particularly interested in work that complicates or transcends the binaries of social versus solitary, artwork versus commodity, and gift versus monetary economies to engage with object-oriented fandom as self-aware and playful in its own right. Guest edited by Bob Rehak (Swarthmore).
Contributions are due March 1, 2013, and interested submitters are encouraged to contact the guest editor with their ideas. |
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| Posted: 2012-01-30 |
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Special Issue CFP: Performing Fandom (March 2015) |
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This special issue considers fandom as a performed set of practices. We seek investigations into intersections between the disciplines of fan studies and performance studies around such issues as identity performance and participant/performer ethnography. Guest edited by Jen Gunnels (New York Review of Science Fiction) and Carrie J. Cole (University of Arizona, Tucson).
Contributions are due March 1, 2014, and interested submitters are encouraged to contact the guest editors with their ideas. |
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| Posted: 2011-12-15 |
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Special Issue CFP: Fandom and/as Labor (March 2014) |
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This special issue invites contributions that ask after how labor relates to fandom, how labor happens in fandom, and what happens when we reconceptualize fandom as labor. Guest edited by Mel Stanfill and Megan Condis (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
Contributions are due March 1, 2013, and interested submitters are encouraged to contact the guest editors with their ideas. |
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| Posted: 2011-09-27 |
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Vol 8 (2011)
Double guest-edited issue: Race and Ethnicity in Fandom, edited by Robin Anne Reid and Sarah N. Gatson; and Textual Echoes, edited by Cyber Echoes
Table of Contents
Special Issue 1
| Editorial: Race and ethnicity in fandom |
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Sarah N. Gatson, Robin Anne Reid |
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Special Issue 2
| Editorial: Textual echoes |
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~ Cyber Echoes |
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Symposium
| Transmedial texts and serialized narratives |
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Maria Lindgren Leavenworth |
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| Why we should talk about commodifying fan work |
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Nele Noppe |
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Review
| "The young and the digital," by S. Craig Watkins |
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Melanie Kohnen |
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| "Adolescents and online fan fiction," by Rebecca Black |
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Laurie B. Cubbison |
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Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), ISSN 1941-2258, is an online-only Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit
Organization for Transformative Works copyrighted under a
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