We are happy to announce our 2019 general issue, TWC 30!

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UPCOMING ISSUES

• Fan Fiction and Ancient Scribal Cultures, December 2019 (CLOSED)
• Fandom and Politics, March 2020 (CLOSED)
• Fan Studies Methodologies, June 2020 (CLOSED)
• General issue, September 2020 (ROLLING SUBMISSION)
• Fandom and Theatre, March 2021 (January 15, 2020)
• Fan Studies Pedagogies, June 2021 (January 1, 2020)
• General issue, September 2021 (ROLLING SUBMISSION)

This special issue seeks submissions that specifically address the pedagogical methods, styles, contributions, and concerns of the fan studies course, classroom, and online space(s).

We are proud to announce our new issue, Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color, edited by Abigail De Kosnik and andré carrington.

We are aware and working on the mobile display issue and the inability to print articles in Chrome and Safari.  If you encounter other issues, do email us with your results, your device type, the name of your browser, and a screenshot if appropriate (editor AT transformativeworks.org).

 We are proud to release TWC  issue No. 27, Tumblr and Fandom, guest edited by Lori Morimoto and Louisa Ellen Stein.

FUTURE ISSUES

• General Issue with emphasis on The Future of Fandom, September 2018 (CLOSED, email us for Symposium)
• Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color March 2019 (CLOSED, email us for Symposium)
• Fan Fiction and Ancient Scribal Cultures December 2019 (CLOSED, email us for Symposium)
• Fan Studies Methodologies March 2020 (January 1, 2019)
• Fandom and Politics June 2020 (January 1, 2019)
• Fandom and Theatre March 2021 (January 15, 2020)

This special issue of TWC explores intersections between theatrical performance and fandom.

This special issue specifically seeks research into the role of fandom in political discourse—both in terms of political organizations attempting to reach out to fans and fans attempting to mobilize to participate in political discussion.

This special issue of TWC explores the potential of fan fiction as an interpretative model to study ancient religious texts.

We seek submissions that address or challenge that shaping, and explore and theorize key methodological challenges and approaches within fan studies.

We invite essays that seek to historicize and contextualize fans, fan works, and fandoms across past, present, and future. Scholarship on fandom’s futures can open connections between technology and interfaces, fannish discussions and trends, fictions of imagined futures, and cultural and political changes in order to illustrate how fandoms may be understood in their historical contexts and cultural interactions.