Fan Studies Resources (WIP)
Bacon-Smith, Camille. Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Bickerdike, Jennifer Otter. The Secular Religion of Fandom: Pop Culture Pilgrim. Sage, 2016.
Booth, Paul. Crossing Fandoms: SuperWhoLock and the Contemporary Fan Audience. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Booth, Paul. Digital Fandom: New Media Studies. Peter Lang, 2010.
Booth, Paul. Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age. University of Iowa Press, 2015.
Bury, Rhiannon. Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online. Peter Lang, 2005.
Busse, Kristina. Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities. University of Iowa Press, 2017.
De Kosnik, Abigail. Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom. MIT Press, 2016.
Duffet, Mark. Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Edwards, Alexandra. Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom. LSU Press, 2023.
Fathallah, Judith. Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25984
Fathallah, Judith. Killer Fandom: Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer. MediaStudies.Press, 2023. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/79407
Goor, Sophie Charlotte. Theoretical Perspectives on Fan Scholarship in the Franchise Era. Routledge, 2024.
Harris, Cheryl. Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture and Identity. Hampton Press, 1998.
Hills, Matt. Fan Cultures. 1st ed. Routledge, 2002.
Hinck, Ashley. Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World. LSU Press, 2019.
Howell, Katherine Anderson. Disability and Fandom. University of Iowa Press, 2024.
Howell, Katherine Anderson. Fandom as Classroom Practice: A Teaching Guide. University of Iowa Press, 2018.
Jenkins, Henry. Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. NYU Press, 2006.
Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture. Routledge, 1992.
Jenkins, Henry, and Robert Kozinets. Fandom as Audience. Gateway Planet Press, 2025.
Kelley, Brit. Loving Fanfiction: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Online Fandoms. Routledge, 2021.
Korfmacher, Anne. Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review. Routledge, 2024.
Kustritz, Anne. Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction: Pocket Publics. Routledge, 2024.
Larsen, Katherine, and Lyn Zubernis. Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls. University of Iowa Press, 2013.
Lamerichs, Nicolle. Productive Fandom: Intermediality and Affective Reception in Fan Cultures. Routledge, 2018.
Linden, Henrik, and Sarah Linden. Fans and Fan Cultures: Tourism, Consumerism and Social Media. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Luetkenhaus, Holly, and Zoe Weinstein. Austentatious: The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans. University of Iowa Press, 2018.
Martin Jr., Al. Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences. NYU Press, 2025.
Pande, Rukmini. Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race. University of Iowa Press, 2018.
Pierce, Jennifer Burek. Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media. University of Iowa Press, 2020.
Pugh, Sheenagh. The Democratic Genre: Fan Fiction in a Literary Context. Seren, 2005.
Reagin, Nancy. Re-living the American Frontier: Western Fandoms, Reenactment, and Historical Hobbyists in Germany and America Since 1900. University of Iowa Press, 2021.
Reinhard, CarrieLynn. Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities. Lexington, 2018.
Salter, Anastasia, and Mel Stanfill. A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy: The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises. University of Mississippi Press, 2020.
Sandvoss, Cornell. Fans: The Mirror of Consumption. Polity, 2005.
Scott, Suzanne. Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry. NYU Press, 2019.
Stanfill, Mel. Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans. University of Iowa Press, 2019.
Stanfill, Mel. Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture. NYU Press, 2024.
Stein, Louisa. Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age. University of Iowa Press, 2015.
Waysdorf, Abby. Fan Sites: Film Tourism and Contemporary Fandom. University of Iowa Press, 2021.
Williams, Rebecca. Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures. University of Iowa Press, 2018.
Affuso, Elizabeth, and Suzanne Scott. Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity. University of Michigan Press, 2023. https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/v692t8628
Barton, Kristin M. and Jonathan Malcolm Lampley. Fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century. McFarland, 2014.
Bennett, Lucy, and Paul Booth, editors. Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Brennan, Joseph, editor. Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities. University of Iowa Press, 2019.
Booth, Paul, editor. A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies. Wiley, 2018.
Booth, Paul, and Rebecca Williams, editors. A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics. University of Iowa Press, 2021.
Click, Melissa, editor. Anti-Fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age. NYU Press, 2019.
Click, Melissa, and Suzanne Scott, editors. The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. 1st ed. Routledge, 2018.
Coombs, Danielle Sarver, and Anne C. Osborne, editors. Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom. Routledge, 2022.
Coppa, Francesca, editor. The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age. University of Michigan Press, 2017.
Driessen, Simone, Bethan Jones, and Benjamin Litherland, editors. Participatory Culture Wars: Controversy, Conflict, and Complicity in Fandom. University of Iowa Press, 2025.
Duffett, Mark, editor. Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music. Routledge, 2015.
Duffet, Mark, editor. Popular Music Fandom: Identities, Roles and Practices. Routledge, 2014.
Gray, Jonathan, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington. Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. 2nd ed. NYU Press, 2017.
Hellekson, Karen, and Kristina Busse, editors. Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays. McFarland, 2006.
Hellekson, Karen, and Kristina Busse, editors. The Fan Fiction Studies Reader. University of Iowa Press, 2014.
Jamison, Anne, editor. Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World. SmartPop, 2013.
Kies, Bridget, and Megan Connor, editors. Fandom, the Next Generation. University of Iowa Press, 2022.
Lam, Celia, Jackie Raphael, Renee Middlemost, and Jessica Balanzategui, editors. Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline. University of Iowa Press, 2022.
Larsen, Katherine, and Lyn Zubernis, editors. Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
Larsen, Katherine, and Lyn Zubernis, editors. Fan Culture: Theory/Practice. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
Lewis, Lisa A., editor. The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media. Routledge, 1992.
Pande, Rukmini, editor. Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices. University of Iowa Press, 2020.
Slade, Alison, Amber J. Narro, and Dedria Givens-Carroll, editors. Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture. Lexington, 2015.
Swalwell, Melissa, Angela Ndalianis, and Helen Stuckey, editors. Fans and Videogames: Histories, Fandom, Archives. Routledge, 2017.
Jenkins, Henry. “Pop Junctions: Reflections on Entertainment, Pop Culture, Activism, Media Literacy, Fandom and More.” Personal blog with guest writers. https://henryjenkins.org/
Click, Melissa, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey and Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz. Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise. Peter Lang, 2010.
Condis, Megan. Gaming Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Gendered Battle for Online Culture. University of Iowa Press, 2018.
Hedge, Stephanie, and Jennifer Grouling. Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age: Essays on Transmedia Storytelling, Tabletop RPGs and Fandom. McFarland, 2021.
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press, 2006.
Penley, Constance. NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America. Verso, 1997.
Radway, Janice A. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. University of North Carolina, 1991.
Wang, Yue, and Maria K. Alberto. Catching Chén Qíng Lìng: The Untamed and Adaptation, Production, and Reception in Transcultural Contexts. Peter Lang, 2024.
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