Monster of Fan Studies Reveal #4 …

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 …

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Monster of Fan Studies Reveal #3…

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 …

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Monster of Fan Studies Reveal #2 …

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 …

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Monster of Fan Studies Reveal #1 …

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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Introducing the Monsters of Fan Studies

One of the many highlights of our annual conference is the special guest speakers we’ve been able to spotlight over the years. This year, in lieu of a traditional keynote lecture, we’ve invited four leading voices in fan studies to each curate a plenary session. Our headlining “Monsters of Fan Studies” were given carte blanche …

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