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 Dr Naomi Jacobs or Dr Eva Cheuk-Yin Li.

Meetings in the 2024-2025 academic year will be held during weeks 3, 6, and 9 of the Michaelmas term, with a couple of short chapters from Fandom, the Next Generation edited by Bridget Kies, and Megan Connorassigned for discussion each time.

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Previous meetings:

• 1 Feb 2024
• Book Launch: Killer Fandom

• 6 Dec 2023 (Hybrid)
  Theme: Work in Progress Discussion

• 24 Oct 2023 (Hybrid)
  Theme: Welcome to the new academic year

• 3 May 2023 (Hybrid)
  Theme: Digital Humanities methods 
  Speaker: Dr Suzanne Black (University of Edinburg)

• 7 March 2023 (Hybrid)
  Theme: Fandom statistics 
  Materials: https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/02/fan-demographics-on-ao3/

• 7 February 2023 (Hybrid)
  Materials: 
  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 November 2022
  Theme: How COVID-19 impacted Fan Conventions

• 20 October 2022
  Theme: Feedback on the Fan Studies Network North America conference
• 11 May 2022 
  Theme: Serial Killer Fandom
  Material: Book chapter draft by Dr Judith Fathallah
• 6 April 2022
  Theme: Dark Fandom
  Guest speaker: Dr Bethan Jones, University of York
• 16 March 2022
  Theme: Members sharing research ideas and work in progress
• 9 February 2022 
  Material: 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 November 2021
  Material: 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 November 2021
  Material: 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