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Episode 221: Self-Inserts
Fan studies scholar Effie Sapuridis discusses her work on self-inserts, from Tumblr to Wattpad to TikTok.
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Episode 176: Liang Ge
A conversation with a scholar of Chinese boys’ love fiction (aka danmei), on bodies, gender, ambivalence, and more.
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Episode 151: Teaching Fanfiction
Dr. Anne Jamison and Maria Alberto on fic in the classroom.
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Episode 140: Miranda Ruth Larsen
The fan studies scholar talks K-pop in 2020—the artists, the media, and the fans.
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Episode 91: Casey Fiesler
An information science professor on platforms, research ethics, and Tumblr’s algorithms.
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Episode 89: Rukmini Pande
The fan studies scholar discusses race, fandom, and her book Squee From the Margins.
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Episode 78: The Fan Studies Network
Elizabeth attends the 2018 FSN Conference and talks to founders Lucy Bennett and Tom Phillips.
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Episode 71: Lori Morimoto
The fan studies scholar on transcultural fandom, contact zones, and bridging the fan/academic divide.
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Episode 29: Shipping and Activism
Fan scholars Rukmini Pande and Lori Morimoto discuss the trouble with shipping-as-politics.
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Episode 19: Cataloging Fandom
Librarian Ludi Price talks about her research on how fans collect, tag, organize, and share information.
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Episode 10: Fangirling Through Time
Scholar Evan Hayles Gledhill on historical fangirling—and the age-old patriarchal attempt to suppress it.