Affect in Fandom

Dominika Ciesielska (PhD) is affiliated to the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). Her academic interests lie within fan culture, and her research focuses on fanfiction and fannish affect. She is the author of papers on queering fanfiction, fan writing as a myth-making practice, and the retelling of space. Nicolle Lamerichs (PhD) is a senior lecturer at creative business at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Netherlands). Lamerichs holds a PhD in media studies from Maastricht University (2014). In her book Productive Fandom (2018), she explores intermediality, affect, and creativity in fan cultures. She has published on fandom, media culture, and cosplay Agata Zarzycka (PhD) is an assistant professor at the University of Wroc.aw (Poland). Her interests include game studies, biopolitics, and identity. She has published two monographs: Socialized Fiction: Role-playing Games as a Multidimensional Space of Interaction between Literary Theory and Practice (2009) and A Goth Reflection: Self-fashioning and Popular Culture (2019).

• Introduction Part 1: Literary Production 1. Dominika Ciesielska – Fanfiction: Canon and Character-building in Alternate Universes 2. Elizaveta Kasilova – Reinterpreting Archetypes in Russian Harry Potter Fanfiction 3. Peng Qiao – Fans and Their Utterances in the Communications Circuit of Chinese Internet Literature Part 2: Characters and Play 4. Nicolle Lamerichs – Sustainable Fandom: A Virtual Ethnography of Sustainable Cosplay and Material Culture on Instagram 5. Joleen Blom – The Turmoil of Dating Game Characters: False Promises of Agency in Genshin Impact 6. Agata Zarzycka – Consumable Heroes: Fanfiction and Biopolitics Part 3: Affect and Time 7. Ross Garner – Curating Popular Dinosaur Ephemera: Reflections on the “Aca-Fan Archivist” and Sub/cultural Capital 8. Matt Hills – Fan Temporalities in/of the Archive: Tenet and Timescapes of “Fast Fandom” among Christopher Nolan Fans 9. Melanie Bourdaa – Archives, Preservation and Database: Creating the Cultural Memory of Fandom 10. Agnieszka Urbanczyk – Crossing the Divide: Shitposting as a Mode of Fan Production Part 4: History and Romance 11. Aldona Kobus – In Defence of Popular Culture: Affect and Engagement in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey 12. Madeleine Span – Fanning the Popular Romance Genre: Readers as Fans on the Contemporary Book Market 13. Micha. Mochocki – Historical Settings as Transmedia Storyworlds Abstracts, keywords and authors’ bios Index