Affect in Fandom: Fan Creators and Productivity

This book provides a timely discussion of the creative practices in fandom and media culture. It brings together an international, especially European-oriented range of contributors and fandom case studies and offers a central, distinctive focus on fan archiving as a neglected form of creativity/productivity.

PhD student at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland where she teaches a course on fanfiction. Her academic interests lie within fan culture, and her research focuses on fanfiction and fannish affect. She is the author of papers on queering fanfiction, fan writing as a myth-making practice and retelling of space. Dr. Nicolle Lamerichs is senior lecturer at Creative Business, HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht. Lamerichs holds a PhD in media studies from Maastricht University (2014). In her book Productive Fandom (2018), she explores intermediality, affect and creativity in fan cultures. She has published on fandom, media culture and cosplay. Dr. Litt. Agata Zarzycka is Assistant Professor at the University of Wroc.aw. Her interests include game studies, biopolitics and identity. She has published two monographs: Socialized Fiction: Role-Playing Games as a Multidimensional Space of Interaction between Literary Theory and Practice (2009) and A Goth Reflection: Self-Fashioning and Popular Culture (2019).