[Commlist] Special Issue: The Lonely Nerd: Cultural representations of nerds around the world

*Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal*

*Volume 9 No 3 (2022) – Special Issue Lonely Nerd*

*https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3* <https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3>**

/Table of Contents/

Gareth J Johnson./Going Where My Heart Will Take Me: Editorial, Volume 
9, Part 3/. pp. i-xii. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.1186 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.1186>.

Filippo Cervelli & Benjamin Schaper./Socially Inept?: The perceived 
loneliness of nerds/. pp. 1-10. 
DOI:https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.946 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.946>.

Benjamin Schaper./Conquering the Meatspace: The lonely nerd in David 
Fincher’s The Social Network (2010) and Baran bo Odar’s Who Am I 
(2014)/. pp. 11-29. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.866 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.866>.

Janée Burkhalter./‘Gus, don’t be the comma in Earth, Wind & Fire’: 
Understanding Psych’s (sometimes) lonely blerd Burton Guster/. pp. 
30-45.https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.869 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.869>.

Alena Cicholewski:/‘A place where everybody is a legendary hero… and a 
total dork’: Representing the American nerd community as an antidote to 
loneliness in G. Willow Wilson’s Ms. Marvel Comics (2014-2019)/. pp. 
46-61.https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.861 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.861>.

Sharon Coleclough./So Many Ways to be an Outsider: ‘Nerdism’ and 
ethnicity as signifiers of otherness/. pp. 62-83. 
DOI:https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.859 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.859>.

Rebecca Lewis./The Simultaneity of Loneliness and Popularity in Dear 
Evan Hansen/. pp. 84-103. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.864 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.864>.

Daniele Durante./From Misfit to Guide: Toward a corrective depiction of 
Otaku and Hikikomori in Japanese videogame Persona 5/. pp. 104-123. 
DOI:https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.854 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.854>.

Natalia Rumak./Sherlock and Shārokku: ‘Nerdy’ detectives in the West and 
in the East/. pp. 124-144.https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.860 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.860>.

Kwasu David Tembo./Social and Spatial Representations of the Nerd in 
Donnie Darko/. pp. 145-161. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.917 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.917>.

Carolin Fleischer-Heininger./Loneliness as the New Human Condition in 
Murakami Ryū's In za miso sūpu: Otaku-ness, space, violence and 
sexuality/. pp. 162-184. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.893 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.893>.

Christopher Smith:/Consumable Bodies, Consumable Self: The queer 
potential of otaku subjectivity in Kio Shimoku’s Genshiken/. pp. 
185-202. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.855 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.855>.

Filippo Cervelli./Saved by the Nerd: Otaku and the space of family in 
Summer Wars/. pp. 203-225. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.887 
<https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.887>.


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