For the most updated list of publications by our members, please visit the university’s research portal at: https://research.lancaster-university.uk/en/organisations/fan-studies-lancaster/publications/
Book | Journal Article | Book Chapter | Conference Paper
Fathallah, J. M. (2023). Killer Fandom: Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer. mediastudies.press. [Open Access]
Jacobs, N & Black, SR 2025, ‘Fans and AI: Transformations in fandom and fan studies’, Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 46. [Open Access]
Li, ECY & Pang, K-W 2025, ‘“This is a deepfake!”: Celebrity scandals, parodic deepfakes, and a critically speculative ethics of care for fandom research in the age of Artificial Intelligence ‘, Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 46. [Open Access]
Li, ECY & Pang, K-W 2025, ‘Queer Media from the Global South: The Emerging Girls Love (GL) Media Industry of Southeast Asia’, Feminist Media Studies, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1327-1333. [Open Access]
Fathallah, J. 2025, ‘“I guess moral of the story is if you’re going to kill somebody do it in Texas?” ‘Murder, Mystery and Makeup’ as post-true crime’, Popular Communication, pp. 1–18. [Open Access]
Jacobs, N 2024, Archiving the ephemeral in digital public space: using speculative design to consider collaborative fan play in the metaverse. in Proceedings from the Document Academy. University of Akron, FanLIS 2024 [Open Access]
Li, ECY & Pang, K-W 2024, ‘Fandom Meets Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Participatory Culture as Human-Community-Machine Interactions ‘, European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 778-787. [Open Access]
Fathallah, J 2024, ‘Book Review: Fandom through generational lenses’, Cultural Studies, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 902-904. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2304871
Fathallah, J 2024, ‘The Kids are Alright? Generational Distinction vs ‘We-sense’ in an Ageing Music Fandom.’, The Journal of Fandom Studies, vol. 12, no. 2-3, pp. 179-199. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs_00098_1
Jacobs, N & Lowe, JSA 2023, ‘The design of printed fan fiction’, Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 44. [Open Access]
Fathallah, J 2022, ‘Reading Serial Killer Fanfiction: What’s Fannish about It?’, Humanities, vol. 11, no. 3, 65, pp. 65. [Open access]
Jacobs, N., & Lowe, JSA. 2022. The Design of Printed Fanfiction: A case study of Down to Agincourt fanbinding. Proceedings from the Document Academy, 9(1), Article 5. [Open Access]
Noppe, N, Price, L, Chiu, K, Miller, JN, Wang, EN, Vaswani, SM, Merry, SK, Pollock, DE, Black, SR, Hartwell, R, Jacobs, N, Thomas, PA, Emmanouloudis, A, Hellman, E & Spitz, A 2022, ‘What if academic publishing worked like fan publishing? Imagining the Fantasy Research Archive of Our Own’, Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 37. [Open Access]
Fathallah, J 2021, ‘Is stage-gay queerbaiting? The politics of performative homoeroticism in emo bands’, Journal of Popular Music Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 121-136. [Open Access]
Fathallah, J 2021, ‘Sex, Race and Romanticism: The Meta-Vampire in Emo Fandom’, The Journal of Fandom Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 253-273. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs_00044_1
Jacobs, N & Booth, P 2021, ‘Converging Experiences, Converging Audiences: An Analysis of Doctor Who on Twitch’, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1324-1342. [Open Access]
Li, ECY 2015, ‘Approaching Transnational Chinese Queer Stardom as Zhongxing (‘Neutral Sex/Gender’) Sensibility’, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 75-95. [Open Access]
Jacobs, N 2023, Memes—designed to flourish or doomed to divide? in Flourish by Design. Routledge, London, pp. 35-38. [Open Access]
Fathallah, J. 2022. Authenticity After Cock Rock: Emo and the Problem of Femininity. In M. Heřmanová, T. Thurnell-Read, & M. Skey (Eds.), Cultures of Authenticity (pp. 165-178). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-936-220221012
Li, E. C.-Y. (2021). Fandom. In M. Baker, B. B. Blaagaard, H. Jones, & L. Pérez-González (Eds.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media (pp. 163-169). (Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media). Routledge. [Author Accepted Manuscript]
Li, ECY 2017, Desiring Queer, Negotiating Normal: Denise Ho (HOCC) Fandom before and after the Coming-Out. in M Lavin, L Yang & JJ Zhao (eds), Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. University of Hong Kong Press, Hong Kong, pp. 131-156. [Peer reviewed version]
Li, EC-Y & Pang, KW 2024, ‘Girls’ Love Media Industry in Southeast Asia: A Mere Replica of Boys’ Love Media or New Route for Queer Representation and Allyship?’, Paper presented at Media Industries , London, United Kingdom, 16/04/24 – 19/04/24.
Changede, S, Jacobs, N, Mullagh, L & Thomas, L 2023, ‘Exploring the Nexus of Traditional Knowledge and Fan Studies’, Paper presented at FAN STUDIES NETWORK–NORTH AMERICA 2023, 12/10/23 – 15/10/23.
Fathallah, J 2023, ‘Dark Fandom as Play: Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer’, Paper presented at Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference, 12/10/23 – 14/10/23.