You like reading fanfics? How about reading about fanfics? đ
Hereâs what I've read so far (or am currently getting through) for my dissertation on fanfiction bookbinding! I'll be updating it as I go until the end of July. If you have any recs to add to the towering pile or any questions/opinions about something on there, Iâm all ears!
on fan studies & ficbinding â
Alexander, Julia, âMaking fanfiction beautiful enough for a bookshelfâ, The Verge, 9 March 2021 <https://www.theverge.com/22311788/fanfiction-bookbinding-tiktok-diy-star-wars-harry-potter-twitter-fandom> [accessed 12 June 2024]
Buchsbaum, Shira BelĂ©n, âBinding fan fiction and reexamining book production modelsâ, Transformative Works and Cultures, 37 (2022)
Dym, Brianna, and Casey Fiesler, âEthical and privacy considerations for research using online fandom dataâ, Transformative Works and Cultures, 33 (2020)
Jenkins, Henry, Textual Pochers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (New York: Routeledge, 1992)
Jenkins, Henry, âTransmedia Storytelling 101â, Pop Junctions, 21 March 2007 <http://henryjenkins.org/2007/03/transmedia_storytelling_101.html#sthash.gSETwxQX.dpuf> [accessed 12 June 2024]
Hellekson, Karen, âMaking Use Of: The Gift, Commerce, and Fansâ, Cinema Journal, 54, no. 3 (2015), 125â131
Kennedy, Kimberly, âFan binding as a method of fan work preservationâ, Transformative Works and Cultures, 37 (2022)
Minkel, Elizabeth, âBefore âFans,â There Were âKranks,â âLonghairs,â and âLionsâ: How Do Fandom Gain Their Names?â, Atlas Obscura, 30 May 2024 <https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fandom-names> [accessed 12 June 2024]
Penley, Constance, Nasa / Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America (London: Verso, 1997)
Price, Ludi, âFanfiction, Self-Publishing, and the Materiality of the Book: A Fan Writerâs Autoethnographyâ, Humanities, 11, no. 100 (2022), 1â20
Schiller, Melanie, âTransmedia Storytelling: New Practices and Audiencesâ, in Stories: Screen Narrative in the Digital Era, ed. by Ian Christie and Annie van den Oever (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), 99â107
on folklore, the internet, other background reading â
Barthes, Roland, âLa mort de lâauteurâ in Le Bruissement de la langue: Essais critiques IV (Paris: Ăditions du Seuil, 1984)
Blank, Trevor J., Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2009)
Mauss, Marcel, âEssai sur le don. Forme et raison de lâĂ©change dans les sociĂ©tĂ©s archaĂŻques.â, LâannĂ©e sociologique, 1923â1924; digital edition by Jean-Marie Tremblay, Les classiques des sciences sociales, 17 February 2002, <http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/mauss_marcel/socio_et_anthropo/2_essai_sur_le_don/essai_sur_le_don.html> [accessed 10 June 2024]
McCulloch, Gretchen, Because Internet: Understanding How Language is Changing (Random House, 2019)
Niles, John D., Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 1999)
hopefully coming up next (haven't started yet)
A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, ed. by Paul Booth (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018)
A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics, ed. by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021)
Dietz, Laura, âShowing the scars: A short case study of de-enhancement of hypertext works for circulation via fan binding or Kindle Direct Publishingâ, 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT â23), September 4â8, 2023, Rome Italy (ACM: New York, 2023)
Fathallah, Judith May, Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017)
Finn, Kavita Mudan, and Jessica McCall, âExit, pursued by a fan: Shakespeare, Fandom, and the Lure of the Alternate Universeâ, Critical Survey, 28, no. 2 (2016), 27â38
Hjorth, Larissa et al., eds. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography (New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017)
Jacobs, Naomi, and JSA Lowe, âThe Design of Printed Fanfiction: A Case Study of Down to Agincourt Fanbindingâ, Proceedings from the Document Academy, 9, issue 1, article 5
Jenkins, Henry, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York: New York University Press, 2006)
Jenkins, Henry, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning In A Networked Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2013)
Kennedy, Kimberly, and Shira Buchsbaum, âReframing Monetization: Compensatory Practices and Generating a Hybrid Economy in Fanbinding Commissionsâ, Humanities, 11, no. 67 (2022), 1â18
Kirby, Abby, âExamining Collaborative Fanfiction: New Practices in Hyperdiegesis and Poachingâ, Humanities, 11, no. 87 (2002), 1â9
Kustritz, Anne, Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction (New Work: Routeledge, 2024)
Lamerichs, Nicolle, Productive Fandom: Intermediality and Affecive Reception in Fan Cultures, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam Universtiy Press, 2018)
Popova, Milena, âFollow the trope: A digital (auto)ethnography for fan studiesâ, Transformative Works and Cultures, 33 (2020)
Rosenblatt, Betsy, and Rebecca Tushnet, âTransformative Works: Young Womenâs Voices on Fandom and Fair Useâ, in eGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girlsâ and Young Womenâs Voices, ed. by Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves
Soller, Bettina, âFiling off the Serial Numbers: Fanfiction and its Adaptation to the Book Marketâ, in Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence, ed. by Johannes Fehrle, Werner SchĂ€fke-Zell (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), 58â85














