UPDATE: The DOIs now hit. Apologies! We are aware that the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) numbers for Issue 38 are not functioning. This issue is being handled but is not yet resolved.
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Transformative Works and Cultures has released general issue No. 38, the first edited by new coeditors Poe Johnson and Mel Stanfill.
Read More Read more about TWC No. 38 releasedThis special issue centers Blackness in fandom studies. For this special issue, we seek to privilege and celebrate Blackness, not as a comparative but as enough on its own. We want essays that build on the relatively small but groundbreaking scholarly work that centers Black fandoms. We encourage work that engages, nuances, and challenges this foundational work, leading to novel reconsiderations of how fan studies defines and understands Black fandoms.
Read More Read more about Centering Blackness in Fan Studies (3/15/2024; 1/1/2023)TWC will be affected by upcoming network updates to our journal software, OJS, on May 15, 2022.
Read More Read more about TWC to have maintenance downtime May 15Transformative Works and Cultures has released No. 37, “Fandom Histories,” guest edited by Philipp Dominik Keidl and Abby S. Waysdorf.
Read More Read more about TWC No. 37 releasedThis special issue seeks to explore how, in the broadest sense, fans and fandom communities engage with platforms. We are particularly interested in essays that complicate a “black box” view of platforms or that engage critically with what platforms make possible for their users, as well as how and/or why. Ideally, such contributions will further understanding of how interactions among fans, fandoms, texts, and fan works are coconstitutive of the spaces in which they operate. We encourage contributions from fans as well as from fan studies scholars; we are particularly interested in works that cover or draw from global contexts.
Read More Read more about Fandoms and Platforms (3/15/2024; 1/1/2023)Transformative Works and Cultures has launched a new structure for submissions which takes effect as of issue No. 38. New co-editors Mel Stanfill and Poe Johnson expand on why they believe these changes are important and necessary to better reflect “the reality on the ground.”
Read More Read more about TWC Restructures Submission Guidelines [Press Release]"Article" replacing "Theory/Praxis" and Symposium expands word length as of No. 38.
UPCOMING ISSUES
We are happy to announce our 2021 general issue, TWC 36!
Read More Read more about New general issue TWC 36 publishedTransformative Works and Cultures is pleased to announce that Dr. Mel Stanfill and Dr. Poe Johnson will soon be joining the editorial team as coeditors.
Read More Read more about TWC New Coeditors [Press Release]This special issue seeks to widen our knowledge of trans fandom. We invite submissions that engage with trans theory as a lens for analyzing fandom, case studies of trans fans’ experiences of fandom, considerations of trans bodies in fan fiction, trans theorizations of cosplay cross-dressing, and so on. In particular, we seek work that centers trans people—that is, individuals who express their gender identities in a variety of ways, including but not limited to transgender, transsexual, nonbinary, gender fluid, genderqueer, agender, intersex, or otherwise gender nonnormative.
Read More Read more about Trans Fandom (3/15/2023; 1/1/2022)This special issue of TWC seeks papers reflecting on the changing nature of fandom in China and on the role of Chinese fans transcending national boundaries. It asks questions regarding the characteristics of Chinese fans/fans of Chinese media in the contemporary globalized media landscape, and it queries the impact that the media industry has on the formation and ongoing expression of fan cultures.
Read More Read more about Chinese Fandoms (DEADLINE EXTENDED: 12/15/23; 7/1/22)We are pleased to announce the publication of TWC 33 (2020): Fan Studies Methodologies, edited by Julia E. Largent, Milena Popova, and Elise Vist.
We are aware of various difficulties with the web site, especially the inability to download essays. For fan-created PDFs of issues, please see https://fanlore.org/wiki/Transformative_Works_and_Cultures.
UPCOMING ISSUES
The goal for this special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures is to explore the question of how fans produce knowledge about the past and actively engage with history. We are particularly interested in essays that show what fans do as historians, such as running publicly accessible archives and museums, and using archival materials for the production of nonfiction media.
Read More Read more about Fandom Histories (3/15/22; 1/1/21)We are pleased to announce the release of TWC 32 (2020): Fan Fiction and Politics, guest edited by Ashley Hinck and Amber Davisson.
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We are pleased to announce the release of TWC 31 (2019): Fan Fiction and Ancient Scribal Cultures, guest edited by Frauke Uhlenbruch and Sonja Ammann.
Read More Read more about TWC No. 31 released!
We are happy to announce our 2019 general issue, TWC 30!
We are aware of various difficulties with the web site, especially the inability to download essays. For fan-created PDFs of all issues, please see https://fanlore.org/wiki/Transformative_Works_and_Cultures.
Read More Read more about New general issue TWC 30 published
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).
Read More Read more about Fan Studies Pedagogies (3/15/21; 1/1/20)We are proud to announce our new issue, Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color, edited by Abigail De Kosnik and andré carrington.
Read More Read more about TWC No. 29 (2019): Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color
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).
Read More Read more about TWC No. 28 (2018): The Future of Fandom, special 10th anniversary issueWe are proud to release TWC issue No. 27, Tumblr and Fandom, guest edited by Lori Morimoto and Louisa Ellen Stein.
FUTURE ISSUES
This special issue of TWC explores intersections between theatrical performance and fandom.
Read More Read more about Fandom and Theatre (1/15/20; 3/15/21)Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), ISSN 1941-2258, is an online-only Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works (OTW). TWC abides by the OTW Terms of Service, which explain why and how we collect, use, and process information that you provide to us. TWC uses the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
