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Call for Participation: Undergraduate Showcase Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2025 (virtual) October 26, 2025 Fandom REPUTATION: Influence, Power, and Capital For the first time in FSNNA conference history, we are offering an Undergraduate Showcase, highlighting the efforts of undergraduate students across disciplines who have undertaken fan studies work both in and out of …
What is an abstract? What should go into it? In academic terms, an abstract is a short overview/blurb which tells the reader what to expect from your work. When applying to conferences, an abstract should provide a broad overview of the specific project you hope to present, including: For a conference with a theme like …
Call for Participation Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2025 (virtual) October 23-26, 2025 REPUTATION: Influence, Power, and Capital FSNNA Annual Conference 2025 When fan studies first emerged as an undisciplined discipline, fandom was more of a niche activity whose practices (and even existence) still had to be explained to a general readership. Today though, …
Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) is excited to announce that we are seeking new members of our organizing committee! FSNNA held its first conference in October 2018 to gather fan studies scholars in one place to meet, share new research, and promote the study of fanworks and fan cultures. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we …
2024/10/15: The conference program has been updated! This year’s conference program is now available for download! Check out the full schedule, including plenary sessions, roundtables, and social events, as well as important information on our conference policies. For ease of reading, there are two versions available:
As we gear up for the FSNNA 2024 Conference, we’re excited to recognize the generous support of our sponsors. LSU Press, Intellect, and the University of Iowa Press are at the forefront of publishing scholarship in fan studies, providing invaluable resources for researchers, educators, and fans alike, and will be at the conference to present their …
All month we’ve been unveiling the special, plenary roundtables for our 2024 conference. Our fourth and final plenary session will be True Crime and Fan Studies, featuring Bethan Jones, Megan Hoffman, and Naomi Barnes and curated by none other than Monster of Fan Studies Judith Fathallah! Dr. Fathallah’s true crime roundtable will be held on …
We’ve been unveiling our special plenary roundtables for the 2024 conference all August. This week, we’re pleased to announce we will be joined by one of the OG Monsters of Fan Studies: Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, Education, and East Asian Language and Cultures at the University of Southern California and …
All month long, we’re unveiling the FSNNA24 headliners and the special plenary roundtables they’ve curated. On Friday, Oct. 18, we are pleased to welcome the voices behind the Fansplaining podcast, Flourish Klink and Elizabeth Minkel, for a discussion on Studying Fans Outside the Academy. Fansplaining—the podcast by, for, and about fandom—put out biweekly episodes from …
FSNNA24 will feature four plenary roundtable sessions, each curated by a specially invited conference “headliner.” The first MONSTER OF FAN STUDIES is Rukmini Pande, Associate Professor of Literary Studies and Writing at O.P. Jindal Global University. She is the author of Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race and the editor of Fandom, Now in …
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