{"id":26,"date":"2021-08-23T21:49:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T21:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fanstudies\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:23:30","slug":"reading-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fanstudies\/reading-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"26\" class=\"elementor elementor-26\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-57b0fa4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"57b0fa4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-44a18250\" data-id=\"44a18250\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3795ac8 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3795ac8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">The FSL reading group is open to students and researchers from Lancaster.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">The reading group meets every two weeks during term time and informally discusses pre-circulated materials. To sign up, join our Teams group and receive the reading materials, please contact&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #6a00ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #6a00ff\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fanstudies\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our convenors<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">* * * * *&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 14.6667px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">Previous meetings:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">2025-2026<\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start\">We are currently reading chapters from&nbsp;<i>Affect in Fandom<\/i>&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.6667px\">Edited by&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 14.6667px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start\">Dominika Ciesielska,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 14.6667px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start\">Nicolle Lamerichs, and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 14.6667px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start\">Agata Zarzycka.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">24 March 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">4 March 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">18 February 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">4 February 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">21 January 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">8 December 2025 (Social event)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">2 December 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">18 November 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">4 November 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">21 October 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\"><b>2024-2025<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">In the 2025\u20132026 academic year, we focused on <i>Fandom, the Next Generation<\/i> (2022), edited by Bridget Kies and Megan Connor.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">28 Mar 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">14 Mar 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">27 Feb 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">14 Feb 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">30 Jan 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">6 Dec 2024<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">29 Nov 2024<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;color: #333333\">15 Nov 2024<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;color: #333333\">25 Oct 2024<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">2023-2024<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: center\">1 Feb 2024:&nbsp;Book Launch:&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"font-family: inherit;font-weight: inherit;text-align: center\">Killer Fandom&nbsp;<\/i><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: center\">by Judith&nbsp;Fathallah (2023)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 12pt\">6 Dec 2023:&nbsp;Work in Progress Discussion<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 15px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">24 Oct 2023: Welcome to the new academic year<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">2022-2023<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">3 May 2023:&nbsp;Digital Humanities methods.&nbsp;Speaker: Dr Suzanne Black (University of Edinburg)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">7 Mar 2023:&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flowjournal.org\/2023\/02\/fan-demographics-on-ao3\/\">Fandom statistics<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">7 Feb 2023:<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">Schreyer C. 2015. &#8220;The Digital Fandom of Na&#8217;vi Speakers.&#8221; <i style=\"font-family: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">Transformative Works and Cultures<\/i>, no. 18.&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3983\/twc.2015.0610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3983\/twc.2015.0610<\/a>.<br>Istoft, B. 2010. &#8220;Avatar fandom as nature-religious expression?&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture<\/em>, 4 (4): 394-413.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">16 Nov 2022:&nbsp;How COVID-19 impacted Fan Conventions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">20 Oct 2022:&nbsp;Feedback on the Fan Studies Network North America conference<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">11 May 2022:&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">Serial Killer Fandom&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">6 Apr 2022:&nbsp;Dark Fandom.&nbsp;Guest speaker: Dr Bethan Jones, University of York<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;color: #333333\">16 Mar 2022: Work in progress discussion<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">9 Feb 2022<br><\/span>Baudinette, Thomas. 2021. &#8220;Reflecting on Japan-Korea Relations Through the Korean Wave: Fan Desires, Nationalist Fears, and Transcultural Fandom.&#8221; <i style=\"font-family: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">Transformative Works and Cultures<\/i>, no. 36. <a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3983\/twc.2021.2045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3983\/twc.2021.2045<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 11pt\">29 Nov 2021<br>Rowe, Rebecca, Tolonda Henderson, and Tianyu Wang. 2021. &#8220;Text Mining, Hermione Granger, and Fan Fiction: What&#8217;s in a Name?&#8221;&nbsp;<em style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-weight: 400\">Transformative Works and Cultures<\/em><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">, no. 36.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3983\/twc.2021.1997<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 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