Overview
Kristina Busse is a long-time fan and an academic working on fan works and fan cultures. She is one of the founding editors of the OTW's international peer reviewe, Open Access academic journal Transformative Works and Cultures. She is also co-editor of Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. She blogs occasionally at her ephemeral traces and more often at the collective media studies blog Antenna. Her web site is http://kristinabusse.com.
Bibliography of Fandom-Related Work
Publications
- Fans and Fan Communities. Co-written with Jonathan Gray. Handbook of Media Audiences. Ed. Virginia Nightingale. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010.
- Limit Play: Fan Authorship between Source Text, Intertext, and Context. Co-written with Louisa Stein. Popular Communication 7.4 (2009). 192-207.
- Bending Gender: Feminist and (Trans)Gender Discourses in the Changing Bodies of Slash Fanfiction. Co-written with Alexis Lothian. Internet Fiction(s). Ed. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Anton Kirchhofer, and Sirpa Leppänen. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 105-27.
- Yearning Void and Infinite Potential: Online Slash Fandom as Queer Female Space. Co-written with Alexis Lothian and Robin Anne Reid. ELN 45.2 (Fall/Winter 2007). 103-111.
- Канон, контекст и консенсус: новое прочтение фанфикшена. (Canon, Context, and Consensus: An Approach to Reading Fan Fiction) Trans. Ksenia Prassolova. Baltic Journal of Philology 6 (2007): 345-360.
- Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. Ed. Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006.
- My Life is a WIP on My LJ: Slashing the Slasher and the Reality of Celebrity and Internet Performances. Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. Ed. Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006.
- 'I'm Jealous of the Fake Me': Postmodern Subjectivity and Identity Construction in Boy Band Fan Fiction. Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture. Ed. Su Holmes and Sean Redmond. London: Routledge, 2006.
- 'Digital Get Down': Postmodern Boy Band Slash and the Queer Female Space. eros.usa: Essays on the Culture and Literature of Desire. Ed. Cheryl Malcolm and Jopi Nyman. Gdansk: Gdansk UP, 2005. 104-25.
- Crossing the Final Taboo: Family, Sexuality, and Incest in the Buffyverse. Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Ed. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 207-17.
Other Writing
- Fandom and Feminism: Gender and the Politics of Fan Production. In Focus Editor. Cinema Journal 48.4 (Summer 2009): 104-136.
- Fans, Fandom, Fan Studies. Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. Ed. Stephen Littlejohn and Karen Foss. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009.
- Attention Economy, Layered Publics, and Research Ethics. Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. 9.14 - Special Issue: Social Media (2009).
- Fan Fiction and Slash. Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Robin Reid. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008. 111-13, 280-82.
- Slash. Mein Heimliches Auge: Das Jahrbuch der Erotik 2007/2008. Ed. Claudia Gehrke. Tübingen: konkursbuch, 2007.
- Conversation with Cornel Sandvoss, University of Surrey. Gender and Fan Culture Series, Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins, Guest Blogger July 2007.
- Fandom-is-a-Way-of-Life versus Watercooler Discussion; or, The Geek Hierarchy as Fannish Identity Politics. Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. Special Conference Issue (2006).
Talks and Presentations
- Get a Life: In-Text Representations and Gendered Fan Behavior. Flow Conference, September 31-October 2, 2010 in TX.
- Keynote Speaker. Cyber Echoes: Fan Fiction and Sexualities, February 11-13, 2010 in Umeå, Sweden.
- The Role of Genre and Tropes in Writer Creativity and Reader Engagement. Guest Speaker. WriterCon: Between the Lines. July 31 - August 2, 2009 in Minneapolis, MN.
- Original Genius and Transformative Repetition. IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections, April 23-24, 2009 in Washington, DC.
- Historical Memory, Affective Imagination: Fan Representation in Media Fan Fiction. Popular Culture Association, April 8-11, 2009 in New Orleans, LA.
- I want us to own the goddamned servers: The Organization for Transformative Works and the Contemporary Status of Fan Culture. Flow Conference, October 20-21, 2008 in TX.
- Paratextual Commentary as Writer Response Theory. SCMS, March 6-9, 2008 in Philadelphia, PA.
- Intense Intertextuality: Derivative Works in Context. Media in Transition, April 27-29, 2007 in Cambridge, MA.
- Podcasts and the Fan Experience of Disseminated Media Commentary. Flow Conference, October 26-29, 2006 in Austin, TX.
- Will the Real Ending Please Stand Up? Experimental Multimedia Narratives and Fan Fiction. Console-ing Passions International Conference, May 25-27, 2006, in Milwaukee, WI.
- 'If I Wasn't a (Celebrity)?': Alternate Times/Bodies/Realities in Celebrity Fiction and the Search for Identity. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 16-20, 2005, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
- 'My Slash is More Canon Than Yours': Negotiating Authority in Harry Potter Fan Fiction. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 24-28, 2004, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
- Between Women: Real People Slash as Postmodern Queer Female Space. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 20-24, 2003, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
- Buffyverse Beyond Slash: Crossing the Final Taboo in Fan Fiction. Computers and Writing 2000, May 25-28, 2000 in Forth Worth, TX.
