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... )

I did it! And it went really well =D I had good feedback from the conference organiser (who chaired my panel) and various people who'd been listening. I had people nodding along to points I was making, and telling me they really enjoyed it, and I've had requests for copies of the paper and the bibliography. I've also been asked if I'd be interested ( Read more... )

So, another abstract I wrote has been accepted for a conference! In November (two-ish weeks after coming back from New York) I'll be at De Montfort in Leciester talking about gender in the Vampire Slayer and the Twilight series in front of a load of academics at the Vampires, VILFs and Fangbangers conference! This is the absstract I sent in ( Read more... )