Transformative Works and Cultures

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.

Submissions: Authors need to register as authors with the journal before submitting, or if already registered as authors can simply log in and begin the five-step process of submission.


Board

Nancy Baym, Microsoft Research - Rebecca Black, UC Irvine - Paul Booth, DePaul U - Will Brooker, Kingston U - Rhiannon Bury, Athabasca U - Melissa Click, U of Missouri - Francesca Coppa, Muhlenberg C - 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 - C. Lee Harrington, Miami U - Heather Hendershot, MIT - Matt Hills, Aberystwyth U - Henry Jenkins, USC - Derek Johnson, U of Wisconsin - Derek Kompare, Southern Methodist U - Anne Kustritz, U of Amsterdam - Alexis Lothian, Indiana U of Pennsylvania - Mark McLelland, U of Wollongong - Helen Merrick, Curtin U of Technology - Jason Mittell, Middlebury C - Lori Morimoto, Independent - Roberta Pearson, U of Nottingham - Whitney Phillips - New York U - Bob Rehak, Swarthmore C - Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M-Commerce - Julie Levin Russo, Evergreen State C - Cornel Sandvoss, U of Surrey - Avi Santo, Old Dominion - Suzanne Scott, Arizona State U - Catherine Tosenberger, U of Winnipeg - Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown U Law Center - Ika Willis, U of Wollongong - Berit Åström, U of Umeå

Upcoming issues

  • No. 13 (June 2013): Appropriating, Interpreting, and Transforming Comic Books (CLOSED)
  • No. 14 (September 2013): General issue (CLOSED)

Issues coming in 2014–2015

  • Materiality and Object-Oriented Fandom (close date: March 1, 2013)
  • Fandom and/as Labor (close date: March 1, 2013)
  • General issue (close date: January 1, 2014)
  • European Fans and European Fan Objects (close date: January 1, 2014)
  • Performing Fandom (close date: March 1, 2014)

Vol 12 (2013)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Transnational boys' love fan studies HTML
Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma

Theory

Doing Occidentalism in contemporary Japan: Nation anthropomorphism and sexualized parody in "Axis Powers Hetalia" HTML
Toshio Miyake
Rotten use patterns: What entertainment theories can do for the study of boys' love HTML
Björn-Ole Kamm

Praxis

Transplanted boys' love conventions and anti-"shota" polemics in a German manga: Fahr Sindram's "Losing Neverland" HTML
Paul M. Malone
Simulation and database society in Japanese role-playing game fandoms: Reading boys' love "dōjinshi" online HTML
Lucy Hannah Glasspool

Symposium

Reflection on Chinese boys' love fans: An insider's view HTML
Erika Junhui Yi
Where program and fantasy meet: Female fans conversing with character bots in Japan HTML
Keiko Nishimura
The possibilities of research on "fujoshi" in Japan HTML
Midori Suzuki
On the response (or lack thereof) of Japanese fans to criticism that "yaoi" is antigay discrimination HTML
Akiko Hori

Review

"Mechademia Vol. 6: User Enhanced," edited by Frenchy Lunning HTML
Samantha Anne Close
"Writing the love of boys: Origins of 'bishōnen' culture in modernist Japanese literature," by Jeffrey Angles HTML
Emerald King


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 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Contact the Editor with questions.