The FSL reading group is open to students and researchers from Lancaster. 

The reading group meets monthly during term time and informally discusses pre-circulated materials. To sign up and receive the reading materials, please contact our convenors.

Watch this space for reading group meetings in 2025-2026!

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Previous meetings:

2024-2025

In the 2025–2026 academic year, we focused on Fandom, the Next Generation (2022), edited by Bridget Kies and Megan Connor.

• 28 Mar 2025
• 14 Mar 2025
• 27 Feb 2025
• 14 Feb 2025
• 30 Jan 2025
• 6 Dec 2024
• 29 Nov 2024
• 15 Nov 2024
• 25 Oct 2024

• 3 May 2023: Digital Humanities methods. Speaker: Dr Suzanne Black (University of Edinburg)
• 7 Mar 2023: Fandom statistics 
• 7 Feb 2023:
  Schreyer C. 2015. “The Digital Fandom of Na’vi Speakers.” Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 18. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0610.
  Istoft, B. 2010. “Avatar fandom as nature-religious expression?” Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture, 4 (4): 394-413.
• 16 Nov 2022: How COVID-19 impacted Fan Conventions
• 20 Oct 2022: Feedback on the Fan Studies Network North America conference
• 11 May 2022: Serial Killer Fandom 
• 6 Apr 2022: Dark Fandom. Guest speaker: Dr Bethan Jones, University of York
• 16 Mar 2022: Work in progress discussion
• 9 Feb 2022
  Baudinette, Thomas. 2021. “Reflecting on Japan-Korea Relations Through the Korean Wave: Fan Desires, Nationalist Fears, and Transcultural Fandom.” Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 36. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.2045
• 29 Nov 2021
  Rowe, Rebecca, Tolonda Henderson, and Tianyu Wang. 2021. “Text Mining, Hermione Granger, and Fan Fiction: What’s in a Name?” Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 36. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.1997
• 1 Nov 2021
  Lothian, Alexis, and Mel Stanfill. 2021. “An Archive of Whose Own? White Feminism and Racial Justice in Fan Fiction’s Digital Infrastructure.” Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 36. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.2119