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Transformative Works and Cultures

Transformative Works and Cultures is a peer-reviewed academic journal that seeks to promote scholarship on fanworks and practices. It comes out twice a year and is a project of the Organization for Transformative Works.

Contents

Issues

The first issue of TWC appeared on September 15, 2008.

The second issue, published in March 2009, is a special topic issue on games and gaming culture as transformative works.

The third issue appeared on September 15, 2009.

Copyright and Licenses

TWC is a Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. TWC has been submitted for indexing in all major academic databases, open access directories, and services such as Google Scholar.

Editorial Team

The editorial team for 2007 - present includes:

Editors

Review editors

  • Veruska Sabucco, independent, Italy
  • Mafalda Stasi, Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France
  • Cynthia W. Walker, St. Peter's College, United States

Symposium editors

  • Rebecca Lucy Busker, Parkland College
  • Alexis Lothian, University of Southern California, United States
  • Julie Levin Russo, Brown University, United States

Copyeditors

  • Margie Gillis
  • Shoshanna Green, independent freelancer
  • Mara Greengrass

Layout editors

  • Rrain Prior

Proofreader

  • Liza Q Wirtz, Life, the Universe, and Everything

Board

Nancy Baym, U of Kansas - Will Brooker, Kingston U - Rhiannon Bury, Athabasca U - Wendy Chun, Brown U - Melissa Click, U of Missouri - Abigail De Kosnik, UC Berkeley - Catherine Driscoll, U of Sydney - Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona C - Sam Ford, Convergence Culture Consortium - Jonathan Gray, Fordham U - Judith Halberstam, USC - C. Lee Harrington, Miami U - Heather Hendershot, City U of New York - Matt Hills, Cardiff U - Henry Jenkins, MIT - Derek Johnson, U of Wisconsin - Roz Kaveney, Independent - Derek Kompare, Southern Methodist U - Anne Kustritz, Macalaster C - Elana Levine, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Farah Mendlesohn, Middlesex U - Helen Merrick, Curtin U of Technology - Jason Mittell, Middlebury C - Lori Morimoto, Indiana U - Roberta Pearson, U of Nottingham - Sheenagh Pugh, U of Glamorgan - Aswin Punathambekar, U of Michigan - Bob Rehak, Swarthmore C - Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M-Commerce - Sharon Ross, Columbia C Chicago - Cornel Sandvoss, U of Surrey - Avi Santo, Old Dominion - Louisa Stein, San Diego State U - Catherine Tosenberger, U of Winnipeg

Critical Reception