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Elizabeth Minkel
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| Name: | Elizabeth Minkel |
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| Type: | fandom journalist, reccer, podcaster |
| Fandoms: | Harry Potter, Black Sails |
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| Other: | The Rec Center, Fansplaining |
| URL: | Twitter, Tumblr |
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Elizabeth Minkel is a fan culture journalist, as well as the co-host of the podcast Fansplaining with Flourish Klink, and the co-curator of The Rec Center newsletter with Gavia Baker-Whitelaw.
Fandoms
Minkel has frequently discussed her experiences as a long-time lurker in fannish spaces. She describes herself as a current fan of Black Sails, in addition to naming Harry Potter, Torchwood/Doctor Who, BBC Sherlock, and Buffy as previous fandoms.[1] She also discussed her own fannish history in her 2016 OTW guest post.
Fan Culture Journalism
Minkel writes about books and fan culture for a variety of outlets. A more extensive list of her clips can be found on her Tumblr.
- "Harry Potter, Snob?" (The New Yorker, December 2010)
- "A Lurker's Dilemma" (Personal blog, June 2014)
- "The Author Sends Her Regrets: J.K. Rowling and Other Writers with Second Thoughts" (The Millions, February 2014)
- "Fangirl" (The Millions, January 2014)
- Why it doesn't matter what Benedict Cumberbatch thinks of fan fiction (2014)
- From the Internet to the Ivy League: Fanfiction in the Classroom (2015)
- "From the Internet to the Ivy League: Fanfiction in the Classroom" (The Millions, March 2015)
- Harry Potter isn't over, but what happens when a fandom grows up? (August 2015)
- "Rainbow Rowell's Carry On: meta-fan fiction, or simply a novel?" (The Guardian, October 2015)
- "The myth of the Entitled Fan" (New Statesman, July 2016)
- "'My words stayed in folders': life as a fandom lurker" (New Statesman, May 2016)
- "The Year of Loving Things Again" (Fansplaining's Medium, December 2017)
Interviews
- My Conversation with the Millions Elizabeth Minkel: The Full Text (2014)
- Fandom is My Fandom, panel discussion with Minkel and others at ComicCon (2015)
- An Interview with Elizabeth Minkel and Flourish Klink from fansplaining with Angela Yuen at Margins (2016)
- The Multiplicity and Diversity of Fandom: An Interview with Fansplaining's Flourish Klink and Elizabeth Minkel by Henry Jenkins (2017)