Kristina Busse
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- PhD in English, May 2002, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
- Dissertation, "Imagining Auschwitz: Postmodern Representations of the Holocaust." [Abstract]
- (Geoffrey Harpham, Chair; Molly Rothenberg; Joe Valente)
- M.A. in English, December 1993, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
- Zwischenprüfung in English, February 1991, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.
- Vordiplom in mathematics, October 1990, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.
- Abitur, May 1986, Frauenlobgymnasium Mainz, Germany.
- Teaching Philosophy
- Recent Courses:
- Ethics and the Holocaust
- Feminism and Gender Theory
- 19th Continental Philosophy
- 20th C. Continental Philosophy
- Introduction to Logic
- Survey of British Literature II
- Survey of American Literature II
- Composition
Research
- "Limit Play: Fan Authorship between Source Text, Intertext, and Context." Co-Written with Louisa Stein. In Revision.
- "Fans and Fan Communities." Co-Written with Jonathan Gray. Handbook of Media Audiences Ed. Virginia Nightingale. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009. In Revision.
- "Bending Gender: Feminist and (Trans)Gender Discourses in the Changing Bodies of Slash Fanfiction." Co-written with Alexis Lothian.
Internet Fiction(s). Ed. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Anton Kirchhofer, and Sirpa Leppänen. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar's Press, 2008. Forthcoming.
- "Yearning Void and Infinite Potential: Online Slash Fandom as Queer Female Space." Co-written with Alexis Lothian and Robin Anne Reid. ELN 45.2 (Fall/Winter 2007). 103-111.
Канон, контекст и консенсус: новое прочтение фанфикшена.
(Canon, Context, and Consensus: An Approach to Reading Fan Fiction)
Trans. Ksenia Prassolova. Baltic Journal of Philology 6 (2007): 345-360.
- Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. Ed. Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006.
- "My Life is a WIP on My LJ: Slashing the Slasher and the Reality of Celebrity and Internet Performances." Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. Ed. Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006.
- "'I'm Jealous of the Fake Me': Postmodern Subjectivity and Identity Construction in Boy Band Fan Fiction." Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture. Ed. Su Holmes and Sean Redmond. London: Routledge, 2006.
- "'Digital Get Down': Postmodern Boy Band Slash and the Queer Female Space" eros.usa: Essays on the Culture and Literature of Desire. Ed. Cheryl Malcolm and Jopi Nyman. Gdansk: Gdansk UP, 2005. 104-25.
- "Crossing the Final Taboo: Family, Sexuality, and Incest in the Buffyverse." Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Ed. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 207-17.
- "Reflecting the Subject: The 'Return of the Repressed? in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts." Woolf Studies Annual 7 (2001): 75-101.
- "Fans, Fandom, Fan Studies." Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. Ed. Stephen Littlejohn and Karen Foss. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009. Forthcoming.
- "Fan Fiction" and "Slash" Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Robin Reid. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008. Forthcoming.
- "Slash." Mein Heimliches Auge: Das Jahrbuch der Erotik 2007/2008. Ed. Claudia Gehrke. Tübingen: konkursbuch, 2007.
- Conversation with Cornel Sandvoss, University of Surrey.
Gender and Fan Culture Series, Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins, Guest Blogger
July 2007.
- "Fandom-is-a-Way-of-Life versus Watercooler Discussion; or, The Geek Hierarchy as Fannish Identity Politics.
" Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. Special Conference Issue (2006).
- "The Holocaust and Modernity." History in Dispute: The Holocaust, 1933-1945. Ed. Tandy McConnell. History in Dispute, Vol. 11. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 75-78.
- "Holocaust Literature and its Ethical Limitations." History in Dispute: The Holocaust, 1933-1945. Ed. Tandy McConnell. History in Dispute, Vol. 11. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 50-54.
- "Paratextual Commentary as Writer Response Theory" SCMS, March 6-9, 2008 in Philadelphia, PA.
- "Intense Intertextuality: Derivative Works in Context" Media in Transition, April 27-29, 2007 in Cambridge, MA.
- "Podcasts and the Fan Experience of Disseminated Media Commentary" Flow Conference, October 26-29, 2006 in Austin, TX.
- "Will the Real Ending Please Stand Up? Experimental Multimedia Narratives and Fan Fiction." Console-ing Passions International Conference, May 25-27, 2006, in Milwaukee, WI..
- "'If I Wasn't a (Celebrity)?': Alternate Times/Bodies/Realities in Celebrity Fiction and the Search for Identity." International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 16-20, 2005, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
- "PCVA Roundtable: Fantastic Worlds—The Generic Logic of Cult Media Texts." Co-Moderator. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 16-20, 2005, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
- "'My Slash is More Canon Than Yours': Negotiating Authority in Harry Potter Fan Fiction." International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 24-28, 2004, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
- "Between Women: Real People Slash as Postmodern Queer Female Space." International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 20-24, 2003, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
- "Walter Abish's How German Is It: Forgetting the Trauma/Re-Covering the Past." International Conference on Narrative, March 8-10, 2001 in Houston, TX.
- "Buffyverse Beyond Slash: Crossing the Final Taboo in Fan Fiction." Computers and Writing 2000, May 25-28, 2000 in Forth Worth, TX.
- "Postmodern Ethics/Postmodern Aesthetics: Reading Bernhard Schlink's The Reader." International Conference on Narrative, April 6-9, 2000 in Atlanta, GA.
- "Imagining the Future to Rethink the Past: Raymond Federman's Twofold Vibration as Holocaust Science Fiction." Science Fiction Research Association, June 2-6, 1999 in Mobile, AL.
- "Postmodern Ethics in D. M. Thomas's Pictures at an Exhibition." South Central MLA, November 12- 14, 1998 in New Orleans, LA.
- "Eichmann's Categorical Imperative: A Response to 'The Ethics of Screening Obsessional Desire.'" South Central MLA, October 30-November 1, 1997 in Dallas, TX.
- "Holocaust as Postmodern Trauma: Representing the Real in D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel." International Conference on Narrative, April 3-6, 1997 in Gainesville, FL.
[Unpublished essay.]
- "Mothering Medusa; or, Hybridity and the Construction of Subaltern Agency in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis." Association for Psychoanalysis in Culture and Society, November 7-10, 1996 in Washington, DC.
[Unpublished essay.]
- "Reflecting the Subject: The 'Return of the Repressed' in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts." Sixth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, June 13-16, 1996 in Clemson, SC.
- "'I've got a bad wife in the house': Competing Discourses of Nationalism, Gender, and Religion in J. M. Synge's 'Shadow of the Glen'." American Conference for Irish Studies, April 16-18, 1995 in Charleston, SC.
[Unpublished essay.]
- "Psychoanalysis—The Symptom of Science." Society for Literature and Science, November 10-13, 1994 in New Orleans, LA.