An article I co-wrote with Sarah Harman and Ruth Deller about Fifty Shades of Grey reader responses and our forthcoming special issue of the Sexualities Journal went up on Litro last week. You can read it here if you're so inclined: http://www.litro.co.uk/2013/02/reading-fifty-shades

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So, I had my first paper published in the Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures. It's the one I wrote on fan activism, and in which I conducted two case studies on X Files fans. The abstract is ( Read more... )

Abstract revised and sent! Just got to keep all my fingers crossed that it gets accepted, and that I can get ethics committee approval from uni for it (I'm planning on questioning/interviewing fans under the age of 16 so I need to put a good proposal forward to the committee). I also haven't told my supervisor (again) that I'm submitting this ( Read more... )

Anyone got the time/inclination to have a quick look at a proposal for me? It's for the above call for papers, deadline 31st May.

I've had a response from TWC about the fan charity paper I've talked about a couple of times. Broadly, they like it, but they want me to revise and resubmit with a larger focus on the question of celebrity culture and activism: "The reviewers suggest that the relationship between fan and celebrity is a complex one--even further complicated by ( Read more... )

I just submitted my paper on fan charity and fan activism to the Transformative Works and Cultures Journal. It's over the word count, even after me going through and cutting bits left, right and centre, and I've no idea how good it is or how well it will be received, but it's done ( Read more... )

Who send me calls for papers like this:

http://cstonline.tv/cfp-x-files-special

Three guesses who's going to be submitting an abstract?! Now, just to narrow down what to write about...

Purely for academic purposes, I swear! But it was interesting. ( Thoughts under the cut )

I posted this to xfstoryfinders but thought I'd ask you guys too. I'm looking for a post-ep to The Unnatural where the characters of Mulder and Scully come to life and tell DD and GA in no uncertain terms that it's about time they made CC get them together on the show. Any ideas? I want to say it was written for a pornbattle but I'm not 100% sure if it was ( Read more... )