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

FUTURE ISSUES

• Fan Fiction and Ancient Scribal Cultures December 2019 (CLOSED, email us for Symposium)
• Fan Studies Methodologies March 2020 (CLOSED, email us for Symposium)
• Fandom and Politics June 2020 (CLOSED, email us for Symposium)
• Fandom and Theatre March 2021 (January 15, 2020)

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 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.

This issue invites the submission of short and long scholarly essays by and about people of color who self-identify as fans (“fans of color”), and about fan communities that have formed around media characters and texts that predominantly or prominently feature characters of color (“fandoms of color”).