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.
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Issues
The first issue of TWC appeared on September 15, 2008. It includes Francesca Coppa's seminal essay on the history of vidding, Women, "Star Trek," and the early development of fannish vidding, and a range of essays on fandom and fan works from Abigail DeKosnik on politics as fandom and Anne Kustritz on The Story of Obi to Rebecca Busker on meta discourses in fandom and an interview with Henry Jenkins.
The second issue (March 15, 2009) is a special topic issue on "Games as transformative works," edited by Rebecca Carlson. The issue combines various accounts of online play, especially World of Warcraft, with essays ranging from card collectors and table-top and live action role-playing games to chiptunes and machinima.
The third issue appeared on September 15, 2009. This general issue expanded the range of the journal with essays on quilting, fannish wikis, and filk communities as well as an important reflection on fannish race conversations with Pattern recognition: A dialogue on racism in fan communities
The fourth issue (March 15, 2010) is a special Supernatural issue, "Saving People, Hunting Things," edited by Catherine Tosenberger. The issue approaches the television show and its fandom from a variety of disciplines and approaches and discusses the role of religious, the supernatural, and folklore as well fannish creations ranging from specific fanvids and mpreg.
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
- Kristina Busse (#1-#5)
- Karen Hellekson(#1-#5)
Review editors
- Deborah Kaplan (#1)
- Veruska Sabucco (#2-#4)
- Mafalda Stasi (#1-#5)
- Tisha Turk (#3-#5)
- Cynthia W. Walker (#1-#3)
Symposium editors
- Cole J. Banning (#1)
- Rebecca Lucy Busker (#2-#3)
- Lorraine Dubuisson (#3-#4)
- Alexis Lothian (#1-#5)
- Julie Levin Russo (#1-#2)
- Suzanne Scott (#4-#5)
Copyeditors
- Margie Gillis (#1-#2)
- Shoshanna Green (#1, #3-#4)
- Ed Greengrass (#3)
- Mara Greengrass (#1-#4)
- Vickie West (#2)
Layout editors
- Wendy M Carr (#4)
- Allison Morris (#4)
- Kristen Murphy (#4)
- Rrain Prior (#1-#4)
Proofreader
- Sarah Hazelton(#3-#4)
- Vickie West (#3-#4)
- Liza Q Wirtz (#1-#4)
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, Middlebury C - Catherine Tosenberger, U of Winnipeg
