Transformative Works and Cultures
| Issue | Title | |
| Vol 4 (2010) | A box of mirrors, a unicorn, and a pony | Details HTML |
| Jules Wilkinson | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | "A comics studies reader," edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester | Details HTML |
| Geoffrey Long | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | A conversation with Paula Smith | Details HTML |
| Cynthia W. Walker | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | "A Jedi like my father before me": Social identity and the New York Comic Con | Details HTML |
| Jen Gunnels | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | "Adolescents and online fan fiction," by Rebecca Black | Details HTML |
| Laurie B. Cubbison | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | An archive of one's own: Subcultural creativity and the politics of conservation | Details HTML |
| Alexis Lothian | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | An examination of living through enjoyment: Live-action role-play | Details HTML |
| Amanda Odom | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | And now, a word from the amateurs | Details HTML |
| Dana L. Bode | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction | Abstract HTML |
| Monica Flegel, Jenny Roth | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | Autobiographical reasoning in long-term fandom | Abstract HTML |
| C. Lee Harrington, Denise D. Bielby | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | Becky is my hero: The power of laughter and disruption in "Supernatural" | Details HTML |
| Judith May Fathallah | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | "Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New perspectives on gender and gaming," edited by Yasmin B. Kafai et al. | Details HTML |
| Gina Serafin-Persson | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | Bowlers, ballads, bells, and blasters: Living history and fandom | Details HTML |
| Mark Soderstrom | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | "Boys' love manga: Essays on the sexual ambiguity and cross-cultural fandom of the genre," edited by Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, and Dru Pagliassotti | Details HTML |
| Nele Noppe | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | "Camgirls: Celebrity and community in the age of social networks," by Theresa M. Senft | Details HTML |
| Adriano Barone | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | "Coming of age in 'Second Life': An anthropologist explores the virtually human," by Tom Boellstorff | Details HTML |
| Adi Kuntsman | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | "Contemporary Gothic," by Catherine Spooner | Details HTML |
| Martin Fradley | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | Critics, Fans, Scholars and Survival Horror: A Genre Case Study | Abstract |
| Wendi A Sierra | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | Culturally mapping universes: Fan production as ethnographic fragments | Abstract HTML |
| Jen Gunnels, Carrie J. Cole | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | "Cyberspaces of their own," by Rhiannon Bury | Details HTML |
| Katarina Maria Hjärpe | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | Delegitimizing strategic power: Normative identity and governance in online R.E.M. fandom | Abstract HTML |
| Lucy Bennett | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | Diane E. Levin: Child's play as transformative work | Details HTML |
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| Vol 8 (2011) | Doing fandom, (mis)doing whiteness: Heteronormativity, racialization, and the discursive construction of fandom | Abstract HTML |
| Mel Stanfill | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | "Dungeons & Dragons": The gamers are revolting! | Details HTML |
| Rebecca Bryant | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | Editorial policies, "public domain," and acafandom | Details HTML |
| Francesca Musiani | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | Editorial: Race and ethnicity in fandom | Details HTML |
| Sarah N. Gatson, Robin Anne Reid | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | Editorial: Textual echoes | Details HTML |
| ~ Cyber Echoes | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | "Emotions-Only" versus "Special People": Genre in fan discourse | Abstract HTML |
| Louisa Ellen Stein | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | Endless loop: A brief history of chiptunes | Abstract HTML |
| Kevin Driscoll, Joshua Diaz | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | Excerpt from "IRL (In Real Life): The Bronze Documentary Project" | Details HTML |
| Stephanie Tuszynski | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | Exploring the body | Details HTML |
| TWC Editor | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | Extending transformation | Details HTML |
| TWC Editor | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | Fan filmmaking and copyright in a global world: "Warhammer 40,000" fan films and the case of "Damnatus" | Abstract HTML |
| John Walliss | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | Fan labor audio feature introduction | Details HTML |
| Bob Rehak | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | Fandom as industrial response: Producing identity in an independent Web series | Abstract HTML |
| Aymar Jean Christian | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | Fandom squared: Web 2.0 and fannish production | Details HTML |
| Jeff Watson | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | "Fandom: Identities and communities in a mediated world," edited by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington | Details |
| Katerina Serafeim | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | Fannish preferences | Details HTML |
| TWC Editor | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | "Fans: The mirror of consumption," by Cornel Sandvoss | Details HTML |
| Eve Marie Taggart | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | Fighting the fan sub war: Conflicts between media rights holders and unauthorized creator/distributor networks | Abstract HTML |
| Mikhail Koulikov | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | From canon to fanon and back again: The epic journey of "Supernatural" and its fans | Details HTML |
| Melissa Gray | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | From the edges to the center: Disability, "Battlestar Galactica," and fan fiction | Details HTML |
| - sasha_feather | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | Game over: Asian Americans and video game representation | Details HTML |
| Thien-bao Thuc Phi | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | Games as transformative works | Details HTML |
| Rebecca Carlson | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | H/c and me: An autoethnographic account of a troubled love affair | Details HTML |
| Judith May Fathallah | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | "Haunting experiences: Ghosts in contemporary folklore," by Diane E. Goldstein et al. | Details HTML |
| Linda Levitt | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | "Hey, check it out, there's actually fans": (Dis)empowerment and (mis)representation of cult fandom in "Supernatural" | Abstract HTML |
| Laura E. Felschow | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | History and fandom | Details HTML |
| TWC Editor | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | "I'm Buffy, and you're history": Putting fan studies into history | Abstract HTML |
| Nancy Reagin, Anne Rubenstein | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | "I'm glad we got burned, think of all the things we learned": Fandom conflict and context in Counteragent's "Still Alive" | Details HTML |
| Katharina Freund | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | Identity and authenticity in the filk community | Abstract HTML |
| Melissa L. Tatum | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | "In the hunt: Unauthorized essays on 'Supernatural,'" edited by Supernatural.tv | Details HTML |
| Alysa Hornick | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | Infernal redemption | Details HTML |
| Babak Zarin | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | Inside Scanlation | Details HTML |
| Alex Leavitt | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | Interview with Chris Bouchard | Details HTML |
| Emma Dollard | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | Interview with Doris C. Rusch | Details HTML |
| Clara Fernández-Vara | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | Interview with Elisa Kreisinger | Details HTML |
| Francesca Coppa | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | Interview with Henry Jenkins | Details HTML |
| TWC Editor | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | Interview with Jo Graham, Melissa Scott, and Martha Wells | Details HTML |
| TWC Editor | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | Interview with Keith R. A. DeCandido | Details HTML |
| Catherine Tosenberger | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | Interview with Mark Smith and Denise Paolucci | Details HTML |
| zvi LikesTV | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | Interview with Paul Marino | Details HTML |
| Geoffrey Long | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | Interview with Robert DeSimone | Details HTML |
| Jen Gunnels | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | Interview with Rusty Hevelin | Details HTML |
| Sarah Elizabeth Bewley | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | Interview with Sandy and Rache ("The Clucking Belles") | Details HTML |
| Francesca Coppa | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | Interview with the Audre Lorde of the Rings | Details HTML |
| TWC Editor | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | Interview with the Super-wiki admin team | Details HTML |
| Deborah Kaplan | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | Interview with Tony O’Driscoll | Details HTML |
| TWC Editor | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | Interview with Verb Noire | Details HTML |
| K. Tempest Bradford | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | Interview with Wincon organizer Ethrosdemon | Details HTML |
| TWC Editor | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | Interview with Wu Ming | Details HTML |
| Veruska Sabucco | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | Intrinsic motivation: "flOw," video games, and participatory culture | Details HTML |
| Braxton Soderman | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | "Introduction to Japanese horror film," by Colette Balmain | Details HTML |
| Alessia Alfieroni | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | John Lennon, autograph hound: The fan-musician community in Hamburg's early rock-and-roll scene, 1960–65 | Abstract HTML |
| Julia Sneeringer | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | "Kinda like the folklore of its day": "Supernatural," fairy tales, and ostension | Abstract HTML |
| Catherine Tosenberger | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | K-pop, Indonesian fandom, and social media | Abstract HTML |
| Sun Jung | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | "Let's get those Winchesters pregnant": Male pregnancy in "Supernatural" fan fiction | Abstract HTML |
| Berit Åström | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | Lifting the curse: Pearl Jam’s "Alive" and "Bushleaguer" and the marketplace of meanings | Abstract HTML |
| Kristine Weglarz | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | Love! Valor! "Supernatural"! | Details HTML |
| Catherine Tosenberger | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | Maps of many worlds: Remembering computer game fandom in the 1980s | Details HTML |
| Will Brooker | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | "Masculinity and popular television," by Rebecca Feasey | Details HTML |
| Lindsay Bernhagen | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | Masochist or machiavel? Reading Harley Quinn in canon and fanon | Abstract HTML |
| Kate Ellen Roddy | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | "May the journey continue": "Earth 2" fan fiction, or Filling in gaps to revive a canceled series | Abstract HTML |
| Francesca Musiani | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | Metaphor as Canon: The Fiction of Textual Poaching | Abstract |
| Juli J Parrish | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | Monstrous melodrama: Expanding the scope of melodramatic identification to interpret negative fan responses to "Supernatural" | Abstract HTML |
| Lisa Schmidt | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | Nothing but Net: When cultures collide | Details HTML |
| Cathy Cupitt | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | On productivity and game fandom | Abstract HTML |
| Hanna Wirman | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | On symposia: LiveJournal and the shape of fannish discourse | Details HTML |
| Rebecca Lucy Busker | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | One true threesome: Reconciling canon and fan desire in "Star Trek: Voyager" | Abstract HTML |
| Bridget Kies | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | Outside oneself in "World of Warcraft": Gamers' perception of the racial self-other | Abstract HTML |
| Thomas D. Rowland, Amanda C. Barton | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | Ownership, authority, and the body: Does antifanfic sentiment reflect posthuman anxiety? | Abstract HTML |
| Madeline Ashby | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | Painful pleasures: Sacrifice, consent, and the resignification of BDSM symbolism in "The Story of O" and "The Story of Obi" | Abstract HTML |
| Anne Kustritz | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | Participatory democracy and Hillary Clinton’s marginalized fandom | Abstract HTML |
| Abigail De Kosnik | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | Pattern recognition: A dialogue on racism in fan communities | Details HTML |
| TWC Editor | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | "Personal connections in the digital age," by Nancy K. Baym | Details HTML |
| Elizabeth Ellcessor | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | Playing Sue | Details HTML |
| Julia Beck, Frauke Herrling | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | Playing [with] multiple roles: Readers, authors, and characters in "Who Is Blaise Zabini?" | Details HTML |
| Anne Collins Smith | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | "Pretend we're dead," by Annalee Newitz | Details HTML |
| Christopher M. Moreman | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | "Pride and prejudice and zombies: The classic Regency romance—Now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem!," by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith | Details HTML |
| Craig B. Jacobsen | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | Renegotiating religious imaginations through transformations of "banal religion" in "Supernatural" | Abstract HTML |
| Line Nybro Petersen | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | Repackaging fan culture: The regifting economy of ancillary content models | Details HTML |
| Suzanne Scott | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | "Scare tactics: Supernatural fiction by American women," by Andrew Jeffrey Weinstock | Details HTML |
| Germán Gil-Curiel | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | "Second person: Role-playing and story in games and playable media," edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Details HTML |
| John Finlay Kerr | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | Sex detectives: "Law & Order: SVU"'s fans, critics, and characters investigate lesbian desire | Abstract HTML |
| Julie Levin Russo | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | Silence in the library: Archives and the preservation of fannish history | Details HTML |
| - Versaphile | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | Sites of participation: Wiki fandom and the case of Lostpedia | Abstract HTML |
| Jason Mittell | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | Snogs of innocence, snogs of experience | Details HTML |
| Dana Shilling | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | "So oft to the movies they've been": British fan writing and female audiences in the silent cinema | Abstract HTML |
| Lisa Rose Stead | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | Soap operas and the history of fan discussion | Abstract HTML |
| Sam Ford | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | Social dimensions of expertise in "World of Warcraft" players | Abstract HTML |
| Mark Chen | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | Stranger than fiction: Fan identity in cosplay | Abstract HTML |
| Nicolle Lamerichs | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | Subverting the canon in feminist fan fiction | Details HTML |
| Hui Min Annabeth Leow | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | "Supernatural" bodies: Writing subjugation and resistance onto Sam and Dean Winchester | Details HTML |
| Suzette Chan | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | "Supernatural role playing game," by J. Chambers | Details HTML |
| Douglas Schules | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | Taking a bite out of "Buffy": Carnivalesque play and resistance in fan fiction | Abstract HTML |
| Amanda L. Hodges, Laurel P. Richmond | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | "Teen television: Essays on programming and fandom," edited by Sharon Marie Ross and Louisa Ellen Stein | Details HTML |
| Mary Dalton | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | Textual evidence of fandom activities: The fanzine holdings at UC Riverside's Eaton Collection | Details HTML |
| Regina Yung Lee | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | The Contraband Incident: The strange case of Marion Zimmer Bradley | Details HTML |
| Catherine Coker | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | The Army rolls through Indianapolis: Fieldwork at the Virtual Army Experience | Abstract HTML |
| Robertson Allen | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | The birth of a community, the death of the win: Player production of the "Middle-earth Collectible Card Game" | Details HTML |
| Joe Bisz | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | "The epic love story of Sam and Dean": "Supernatural," queer readings, and the romance of incestuous fan fiction | Abstract HTML |
| Catherine Tosenberger | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | The everyday lives of video game developers: Experimentally understanding underlying systems/structures | Abstract HTML |
| Casey O'Donnell | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | The fan letter correspondence of Willa Cather: Challenging the divide between professional and common reader | Abstract HTML |
| Courtney A. Bates | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | The friends that game together: A folkloric expansion of textual poaching to genre farming for socialization in tabletop role-playing games | Abstract HTML |
| Michael Robert Underwood | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | "The function of role-playing games," by Sarah Lynne Bowman | Details HTML |
| Sean Duncan | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | The future of academic writing? | Details HTML |
| Avi Santo | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | The Impala as negotiator of melodrama and masculinity in "Supernatural" | Abstract HTML |
| Melissa N. Bruce | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | The labor of creativity: Women's work, quilting, and the uncommodified life | Abstract HTML |
| Debora J Halbert | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | The "lover" and early modern fandom | Details HTML |
| Vera Keller | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | The magic of television: Thinking through magical realism in recent TV | Details HTML |
| Lynne Joyrich | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | "The new influencers," by Paul Gillin | Details HTML |
| Barna William Donovan | ||
| Vol 7 (2011) | "The rabid fans that take [Twilight] much too seriously": The construction and rejection of excess in Twilight antifandom | Abstract HTML |
| Jacqueline Marie Pinkowitz | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | The romanticization of abstinence: Fan response to sexual restraint in the Twilight series | Details HTML |
| Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, Melissa A. Click | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | The unlearning: Horror and transformative theory | Abstract HTML |
| Michael A. Arnzen | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | The Web planet: How the changing Internet divided "Doctor Who" fan fiction writers | Abstract HTML |
| Leora Hadas | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | "The young and the digital," by S. Craig Watkins | Details HTML |
| Melanie Kohnen | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | "This isn't something I can fake": Reactions to "Glee"'s representations of disability | Details HTML |
| David Kociemba | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | Tlon, fandom, and source texts: The effect of fan works on the narrative of "Supernatural" | Details HTML |
| Deepa Sivarajan | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | "Too Human" versus the enthusiast press: Video game journalists as mediators of commodity value | Abstract HTML |
| Rebecca Carlson | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | Transforming academic and fan cultures | Details HTML |
| TWC Editor | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | Transmedial texts and serialized narratives | Details HTML |
| Maria Lindgren Leavenworth | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | (Un)gendering the homoerotic body: Imagining subjects in boys' love and yaoi | Abstract HTML |
| Mark McHarry | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | What are little ghouls made of? The "Supernatural" family, fandom, and the problem of Adam | Details HTML |
| Kristin Noone | ||
| Vol 4 (2010) | "What you don't know": "Supernatural" fan vids and millennial theology | Details HTML |
| Louisa Ellen Stein | ||
| Vol 5 (2010) | When normal and deviant identities collide: Methodological considerations of the pregnant acafan | Abstract HTML |
| Mary Ingram-Waters | ||
| Vol 6 (2011) | "White shoes to a football match!": Female experiences of football's golden age in England | Abstract HTML |
| Stacey Pope, John Williams | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | Whodology: Encountering "Doctor Who" fan fiction through the portals of play studies and ludology | Abstract HTML |
| Charles William Hoge | ||
| Vol 8 (2011) | Why we should talk about commodifying fan work | Details HTML |
| Nele Noppe | ||
| Vol 1 (2008) | Women, "Star Trek," and the early development of fannish vidding | Abstract HTML |
| Francesca Coppa | ||
| Vol 2 (2009) | “Once more a kingly quest”: Fan games and the classic adventure genre | Abstract HTML |
| Anastasia Marie Salter | ||
| Vol 3 (2009) | “The Hunt for Gollum”: Tracking issues of fandom cultures | Details HTML |
| Robin Anne Reid | ||
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