[Commlist] Chapter Proposals Routledge Companion to Media Fandom

*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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