Chapter 18 Further Reading

Historical Context

Bacon-Smith, Camille. Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Foundational ethnographic study of female Star Trek fan communities and the fan fiction they produced. First scholarly treatment to take fan creativity seriously as a cultural practice. The historical account of slash fiction's emergence is essential background for Section 18.1.

Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. Routledge, 1992. Jenkins's influential application of Michel de Certeau's "textual poaching" concept to fan creative production. The central theoretical work of fan studies, against which subsequent scholarship has defined itself. Particularly relevant to Section 18.5's analysis of the transformative tradition.

Coppa, Francesca. "A Brief History of Media Fandom." In Fan Fiction Studies Reader, edited by Hellekson and Busse, 41–59. University of Iowa Press, 2014. Compact, authoritative account of the history from Star Trek zines through the internet era. Essential reading for Section 18.1 and the chapter's broader historical argument.

Fan Fiction as Literary Practice

Hellekson, Karen, and Kristina Busse, eds. Fan Fiction Studies Reader. University of Iowa Press, 2014. The essential anthology for fan fiction studies. Covers community practices, genre, intellectual property, and affect. Multiple essays are directly relevant to this chapter; the editors' introduction provides an excellent overview of the field.

Busse, Kristina. Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities. University of Iowa Press, 2017. Contemporary analysis of fan fiction as both literary practice and social practice. Busse is one of the most rigorous scholars in fan studies; her attention to both the craft and community dimensions is directly relevant to Section 18.3.

De Kosnik, Abigail. Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom. MIT Press, 2016. Analyzes fan archives as forms of cultural memory and community gift-giving. Chapter 2 on the fan fiction archive as a form of literary production is directly relevant to Section 18.4's analysis of AO3.

AO3 and Archive Studies

Fiesler, Casey, Shannon Morrison, and Amy Bruckman. "An Archive of Their Own: A Case Study of Feminist HCI and Values in Design." In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2574–2585. Examines AO3's design choices through a feminist HCI (human-computer interaction) lens, analyzing how the archive's features encode community values. Directly relevant to Section 18.4.

Organization for Transformative Works. "About the OTW." transformativeworks.org. The OTW's own description of its mission, governance, and principles. Essential context for understanding AO3's institutional position.

Fiesler, Casey, and Nicholas Proferes. "'Participant' Perceptions of Twitter Research Ethics." Social Media + Society 4, no. 1 (2018). Examines researchers' and community members' different understandings of what fan creative work on public platforms is — relevant to the ethical questions raised in Sections 18.6–18.7.

Genre Theory and Fan Fiction

Coppa, Francesca. "Writing Bodies in Space: Media Fan Fiction as Theatrical Performance." In Fan Fiction Studies Reader, 218–237. Analyzes fan fiction in relation to performance theory, with implications for understanding genre as a form of community practice. Relevant to Section 18.2.

Woledge, Elizabeth. "Intimatopia: Genre Intersections Between Slash and the Mainstream." In Fan Fiction Studies Reader, 97–117. Analysis of slash as a genre that draws on and transforms mainstream literary forms. Essential context for understanding the literary sophistication of fan fiction genres.

Salmon, Catherine, and Donald Symons. Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality. Yale University Press, 2001. Controversial but influential analysis of slash fiction from an evolutionary psychology perspective. Relevant for understanding the demographic patterns in fan fiction communities discussed in Section 18.1.

The Dark Fan Fiction Debate

Williams, Rebecca. "Ontological Security, Authorship and Resurrection: A Case Study of Sherlockian Fan Fiction." Journal of Fandom Studies 3, no. 1 (2015): 27–49. Examines fan fiction as a response to feelings of narrative loss — relevant to understanding why fans write dark content.

Brennan, Joseph. "Queerbaiting: The 'Playful' Doctor and the Fans Who 'Noticed.'" Transformative Works and Cultures 19 (2015). Analysis of fan community responses to perceived queerbaiting in source texts — relevant to understanding why dark fic and explicit fic represent fan communities' refusal to accept what they are given.

K-Pop Fan Fiction and RPF

Cho, Joanna. "Policing K-Pop Fan Communities: The Regulation of Girl Groups' Fan Subculture." In The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global, edited by Youna Kim, 141–155. Routledge, 2013. Context for understanding K-pop fandom culture and its relationship to fan creative production, including RPF.

Boczkowski, Pablo J., and Zizi Papacharissi, eds. Trump and the Media. MIT Press, 2018. Chapter by Adrienne Russell on fan communities and political culture is tangentially relevant to the RPF ethics discussion, particularly regarding the line between public and private persons.

Ruberg, Bonnie. "Straight Gay Games." In Queer Game Studies, edited by Ruberg and Shaw, 159–171. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Theoretical framework for understanding how fan fiction's queering of source texts functions — applicable to both character-based slash and K-pop RPF.

For Advanced Study

Coppa, Francesca, et al., eds. Fan Fiction Oral History Project. Transformative Works and Cultures, 2012. Oral history interviews with long-term fan fiction community members. Essential primary source material for understanding the LiveJournal era and the transition to AO3.

Black, Rebecca W. Adolescents and Online Fan Fiction. Peter Lang, 2008. Study of fan fiction as a literacy practice for young writers, demonstrating the educational function discussed in Section 18.3. Empirically grounded analysis of how fan fiction develops writing skills.

Jamison, Anne. Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World. Smart Pop, 2013. Accessible overview of fan fiction's history and significance, with extensive primary material including historical fan fiction examples. Good entry point for readers new to fan studies.