Announcements

 

Special issue: Race and Ethnicity in Fandom (Summer 2011)

 
We invite submissions to a special issue on race and ethnicity in fandom guest edited by Sarah Gatson (Texas A&M University) and Robin Reid (Texas A&M University–Commerce). Contributions will focus on not only analyzing but also confronting hierarchies of race and ethnicity and their relationship to gender, sexuality, class, and disability.

The full text of the CFP is available after the jump. You may also download PDFs of the CFP as US letter or as A4.
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TWC releases general cfp

 
We have created a new general call for papers, updated with the latest guidelines. Please download the PDFs as US letter or European A4.

Feel free to print out and distribute widely!
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No. 2 released

 
TWC has just released its second issue! Read the PDFs of our full press release as US letter or A4.

We are already planning the upcoming issues. Besides a general issue for fall 2009, we are soliciting for two special issues.

"Saving People, Hunting Things" is guest edited by Catherine Tosenberger and planned for spring 2010 (call for papers here).

"Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" is guest edited by Nancy Reagin and Anne Rubenstein and planned for spring 2011 (call for papers here).

Click on the link to read the full text of our press release.
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Special Issue: Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Spring 2011)

 
This special issue, guest edited by Nancy Reagin, Pace University, and Anne Rubenstein, York University, will focus on the rich history of fans and their engagement with a variety of objects of fandom.

Click on the link to read the full text of the call for papers. A .pdf is available sized for US Letter–sized paper here.
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Special Issue: *Supernatural* (Spring 2010)

 
We invite submissions for a special issue on the CW television series Supernatural guest edited by Catherine Tosenberger. We are interested in essays concerning every aspect of the show, but especially in studies of Supernatural fandom and fan culture. More...
 
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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 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Contact the Editor with questions.