Transparency and reciprocity: Respecting fannish spaces in scholarly research.

Fathallah, Judith. (2016). Transparency and reciprocity: Respecting fannish spaces in scholarly research. Journal of Fandom Studies, 2016, 4 (3), pp. 251-54

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Abstract

Most of us approaching fandom academically consider ourselves fans, and as such, may become accustomed to traversing back and forth across fannish and academic spaces with a degree of ease. Moreover, as fan studies gains in prominence, these spaces are beginning to converge in productive ways: not only have fans been producing meta longer than fan studies has been a subject, but The Archive of Our Own and Fanlore are maintained by fannish academics and academically minded fans. The Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures’ Symposia section welcomes essays from fans writing outside the academy, some of whom choose to employ their fannish pseudonym (see e.g. zvi LikesTv 2009, Versaphile 2011). Nonetheless, I want to argue that as academics situated within institutions, we have a responsibility of transparency and to the fans whose works we quote and whose subcultures we are sometimes guests in. This perspective has developed over the duration of my PhD research (Fathallah 2013), and its adaptation into a monograph on fanfic (Fathallah forthcoming).

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