Jade Alexander completed her PhD on roller derby culture at Western Sydney University, Australia. She currently tutors in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University in cultural studies, sociology, and gender studies subjects.Katarzyna Bronk is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She teaches the History of English Literature, but specialises in English theatre and drama and, thus, investigated the question of celebrity within it.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: (Extra)Ordinary? Jade Alexander and Katarzyna BronkPart 1: Constructing Celebrity1 “The Big Fellow Is Dead!”: Michael Collins as Celebrity and Nationalist MartyrAmber Anna Colvin2 Mediating Bieber in Canada: Authenticating Nation in FameSamita Nandy3 Literary Celebrity, Politics and the Nobel Prize: The Nobel Lecture as an Authorial Self-Fashioning PlatformSandra MayerPart 2: (Re)Envisioning Stardom4 Oscar Wilde’s Long Afterlife: Victorian Celebrity and Its Transformations in Modern CultureAnna Fomichenko5 Touching Fame: Exploring Interactional Dynamics between Local Celebrities and Fans in Sydney’s Roller Derby SceneJade Alexander6 Celebrity Awards, Fan Communities and the Reconstruction of “High” and “Low” CulturesMira Moshe

Jade Alexander completed her PhD on roller derby culture at Western Sydney University, Australia. She currently tutors in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University in cultural studies, sociology, and gender studies subjects.Katarzyna Bronk is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She teaches the History of English Literature, but specialises in English theatre and drama and, thus, investigated the question of celebrity within it.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: (Extra)Ordinary? Jade Alexander and Katarzyna BronkPart 1: Constructing Celebrity1 “The Big Fellow Is Dead!”: Michael Collins as Celebrity and Nationalist MartyrAmber Anna Colvin2 Mediating Bieber in Canada: Authenticating Nation in FameSamita Nandy3 Literary Celebrity, Politics and the Nobel Prize: The Nobel Lecture as an Authorial Self-Fashioning PlatformSandra MayerPart 2: (Re)Envisioning Stardom4 Oscar Wilde’s Long Afterlife: Victorian Celebrity and Its Transformations in Modern CultureAnna Fomichenko5 Touching Fame: Exploring Interactional Dynamics between Local Celebrities and Fans in Sydney’s Roller Derby SceneJade Alexander6 Celebrity Awards, Fan Communities and the Reconstruction of “High” and “Low” CulturesMira Moshe

Jade Alexander completed her PhD on roller derby culture at Western Sydney University, Australia. She currently tutors in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University in cultural studies, sociology, and gender studies subjects.Katarzyna Bronk is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She teaches the History of English Literature, but specialises in English theatre and drama and, thus, investigated the question of celebrity within it.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: (Extra)Ordinary? Jade Alexander and Katarzyna BronkPart 1: Constructing Celebrity1 “The Big Fellow Is Dead!”: Michael Collins as Celebrity and Nationalist MartyrAmber Anna Colvin2 Mediating Bieber in Canada: Authenticating Nation in FameSamita Nandy3 Literary Celebrity, Politics and the Nobel Prize: The Nobel Lecture as an Authorial Self-Fashioning PlatformSandra MayerPart 2: (Re)Envisioning Stardom4 Oscar Wilde’s Long Afterlife: Victorian Celebrity and Its Transformations in Modern CultureAnna Fomichenko5 Touching Fame: Exploring Interactional Dynamics between Local Celebrities and Fans in Sydney’s Roller Derby SceneJade Alexander6 Celebrity Awards, Fan Communities and the Reconstruction of “High” and “Low” CulturesMira Moshe