Kristina Busse

In Progress

• Fan Fiction and Literary Theory. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. (under contract)
• "Queer Sex, Gay Politics, and Media Fan Cultures." Co-written with Alexis Lothian. Sex, Commerce and Media Technologies. Ed. Feona Attwood. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• "Remixing the Remix: Ownership and Appropriation within Fan Communities." Co-written with Shannon Farley. M/C Journal

Publications

• The Fan Studies Reader Co-edited with Karen Hellekson. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. (Forthcoming)
• "Geek Hierarchies, Boundary Policing, and the Gendering of the Good Fan." Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies (Forthcoming)
• "The Return of the Author: Ethos and Identity Politics." Companion to Media Authorship. Ed. Jonathan Gray and Derek Johnson. Oxford: Blackwell. 48-68.
• "Identity, Ethics, and Fan Privacy." Co-written with Karen Hellekson. Fan Culture: Theory/Practice. Ed. Katherine Larsen and Lynn Zubernis. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 38-56.
• Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom. Co-edited with Louisa Ellen Stein. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012.
• "Fans and Fan Communities." Co-written with Jonathan Gray. Handbook of Media Audiences. Ed. Virginia Nightingale. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011. 425-43.
• "Limit Play: Fan Authorship between Source Text, Intertext, and Context." Co-written with Louisa Ellen Stein. Popular Communication 7.4 (2009). 192-207.
• "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 Scholars Publishing, 2009. 105-27.
• "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. Co-edited with 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.

Other Writings

• "Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse." Why Fanfiction is Taking over the World Ed. Anne Jamison. Smart Pop Books. (Forthcoming)
• "Scholarly Critiques and Critiques of Scholarship." Co-written with Alexis Lothian. Camera Obscura 77 (26.2) September 2011.
• "Fandom and Feminism: Gender and the Politics of Fan Production." In Focus Editor. Cinema Journal 48.4 (Summer 2009): 104-136.
• "Fans, Fandom, Fan Studies." Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. Ed. Stephen Littlejohn and Karen Foss. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009.
• "Attention Economy, Layered Publics, and Research Ethics" Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. 9.14 - Special Issue: Social Media (2009).
• "Fan Fiction" and "Slash" Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Robin Reid. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008. 111-13, 280-82.
• "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.

Conference Presentations

• "Identity, Ethics, and Fan Privacy," with Karen Hellekson. Media in Transition 8, May 3-5, 2013 in Cambridge, MA.
• "The Return of the Author: Ethos and Identity Politics." SCMS Conference, March 6-10, 2013 in Chicago, IL.
• "Collective Scholarships and Digital Interfaces" Workshop, Chair.SCMS Conference, March 21-25, 2012 in Boston, MA.
• "I Don't Hate the South: Familial Blood and the Southern Vampire in True Blood and The Vampire Diaries" SCMS Conference, March 21-25, 2012 in Boston, MA.
• "The Ethics of Selection: The Role of Canonicity in Acafannish Pedagogy and Publication " Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies Workshop. SCMS Conference, March 11-13, 2011 in New Orleans, LA.
• "Second Lining as Suffering and Solidarity: Absence and Authenticity in David Simon’s post-Katrina New Orleans" Co-Written with John Dudley. SCMS Conference, March 11-13, 2011 in New Orleans, LA.
• "Get a Life: In-Text Representations and Gendered Fan Behavior" Flow Conference, September 30 - October 2, 2010 in Austin, TX.
• "Original Genius and Transformative Repetition " IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections, April 23-24, 2009 in Washington, DC.
• "Historical Memory, Affective Imagination: Fan Representation in Media Fan Fiction" Popular Culture Association, April 8-11, 2009 in New Orleans, LA.
• "I want us to own the goddamned servers: The Organization for Transformative Works and the Contemporary Status of Fan Culture" Flow Conference, October 20-21, 2008 in TX.
• "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.

Other Presentations

• Keynote Speaker. MASH 2013: Making and Sharing. Jul 4-5, 2013 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• Fifty Shades of Fandom: Repetition and Originality in Transformative Fanworks. Keynote Speaker. Borders and Beyond: Considering Communities. Oct 11-13, 2012 in Gainesville, FL.
• Affect and the Individual Fan. Keynote Speaker. Cyber Echoes: Fan Fiction and Sexualities, February 11-13, 2010 in Umeå, Sweden.
• Guest Speaker WriterCon: Between the Lines. July 31 - August 2, 2009 in Minneapolis, MN.
  • The Role of Genre and Tropes in Writer Creativity and Reader Engagement.
  • Genderswap and Feminism.
  • The Organization for Transformative Works: I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers.