Journal Articles:

• “The Trouble with Transmediation: Fandom’s Negotiation of Transmedia Storytelling Systems” (2010) in Spectator: “I’d like to…close by pointing towards one of transmedia’s greatest potential threats: its ability to fracture fandom and studies of fandom into two gendered camps, instead of focusing on its intersections and questioning binary assumptions about how fans consume and produce.”

• “Fangirls in Refrigerators: The Politics of (In)visibility in Comic Book Culture” (2013) in Transformative Works and Cultures: “I don’t mean to suggest that the comic book industry treats female fans as brutally as it occasionally treats its female heroes, but rather that female fans of comic books have long felt ‘fridged,’ an audience segment kept on ice and out of view.”

• “Towards a Theory of Producer/Fan Trolling” (2018) in Participations: “[Instances] of producorial or fannish trolling reveal a great deal about each groups’ esteem for one, but also function as part of broader efforts to reassert power and/or align one camp with the other’s distinct understandings of ‘appropriate’ affect.”

Publications on In Media Res (“Each weekday, a different scholar curates a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300–350-word impressionistic response.”):

• “‘Something to Prove?’ Contemplating the Fake Geek Academic” (2014): “If the ‘fake geek girl’ and GamerGate movements seek to silence marginalized voices, open source academia needs to collectively ensure that these instances of authenticity policing don’t have a similar effect on scholarly production.”

• “WoMEN’s Work: Representing Fan Labor on Heroes of Cosplay” (2015): “[Professionalized] female fans are represented and received differently from their fanboy counterparts, whose capacity to professionalize their labor is rarely scrutinized.”

• “On the Feminist Impact of DC Bombshells” (2015): “Between franchises like DC Bombshells, and transformative fan art movements like The Hawkeye Initiative, we appear to be in a moment in which the intersections between pin-up iconography and superheroine representations are being challenged and repurposed.”

• “Rethinking Fan ‘Investment’: Legion M and the Future of Fanancing” (2018): “What [Legion M delivers] is a pedagogical vision of corporatized fan culture, in which the perks of professionalization (e.g. access to “pitch elevator” contents, Hollywood premiere and parties, and celebrities) are valued above creative autonomy or fan community.”

Guest Blog Posts on Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins::

• “Acafandom and Beyond” (2010), conversation with Will Brooker, Melissa A. Click, and Sangita Shresthova (Part I, Part II): “A fannish sensibility isn’t a quirk that must be concealed, but something that can be wielded strategically to think about how to model transformative scholarship, or design more participatory pedagogical models.”

• “Kickstarting Veronica Mars: A Conversation About the Future of Television” (2013), conversation with Aymar Jean Christian and Mauricio Mota (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV): “Many, myself included, are inclined to view the Veronica Mars Kickstarter as a prime example of fan empowerment… But, I still worry about what it means to discursively celebrate fans’ power in purely economic terms.”

• “The Last Jedi: An Online Roundtable” (2018), conversation with Will Baker, Mar Guerrero-Pico, and William Proctor (Part I, Part II, Part III): “My primary complaint is that the film so consistently pulls its punches both representationally and mythologically.”