Welcome to Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA)!

Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) is an annual conference for fan scholars, scholar fans, and everyone in between. We seek to create a supportive, welcoming community for developing and sharing research in the interdisciplinary field of fan studies.

Inspired by our UK-based colleagues in the original Fan Studies Network, the first FSNNA conference was held in October 2018 at DePaul University in Chicago.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, we have been holding our conferences online, using a range of platforms from Discord to Zoom to Gather to continue our mission of creating an accessible venue for fan studies scholars from around the world to share their work.

A stack of programs for the 2018 conference on a table next to some DePaul University–branded pens, stickers and buttons with the Organization for Transformative Works logo, and a sheet of pronoun stickers for people's badges.