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[Commlist] Chapter Proposals Routledge Companion to Media Fandom

Mon Dec 05 23:04:20 GMT 2022







*DEADLINE APPROACHING: Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, 2nd edition *

*Call for Chapters on Transcultural Fandom *

Work has begun on a second edition of The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom <https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Media-Fandom/Click-Scott/p/book/9780367528065>, a 40+ chapter collection that provides reflection on and direction for the evolving field of Fan Studies edited by Suzanne Scott and Melissa Click. The project’s goal is to bring together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of established and emerging media fandom scholars to survey core concerns, evaluate the state of the field, and point to new directions of inquiry. The project will be organized into five main sections: Methods & Ethics, Fan Practices & Platforms, Identities, Transcultural Fandom, and Industry & Labor.

We are looking for new chapters for the collection’s section on Transcultural Fandom. In the Routledge Companion to Media Fandom’s first edition, the co-editors argued that “The absence of a robust dialogue in fan studies scholarship about race and transcultural fandom is one of the field’s most obvious deficiencies” (p. 241). Thus, we agree with Chin and Morimoto’s (2013) call for more work on transcultural fans and assertion that “... non-English (often non-Western) fandoms are not peripheral to ‘mainstream’ fan culture. Rather they are part of the transcultural interplay of fandom as much as any other, separated only by barriers of language, distribution and availability that have become eminently surmountable as fandoms have migrated online” (p. 105).

To continue to broaden our knowledge of the complex ways media fandom develops across cultures and national borders, we are seeking abstracts for the collection’s second edition section on Transcultural Fandom. *We are particularly interested in media and fandoms that develop in or evolve from the Global South. *

*Submission Instructions: *

Please submit a 500-word abstract and a CV by December 15, 2022 to the co-editors at (click /at/ gonzaga.edu) <mailto:(click /at/ gonzaga.edu)> and (suzanne.scott /at/ utexas.edu) <mailto:(suzanne.scott /at/ utexas.edu)>. Please include both co-editors on your email submission.

Authors whose abstracts are selected will be notified by January 15, 2023 and asked to submit the first draft of their full (5000-word) chapter by August 1, 2023. Final chapter drafts will be due May 1, 2024.

*References: *

Chin, B. and Morimoto, L. H. (2013). “Towards a theory of transcultural fandom,” /Participations, 10/, pp. 92-108.

Click, M. A. and Scott, S. (2018). “Race and transcultural fandom: introduction,” /The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom/, pp. 241-243.

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