Kristina Busse

Books and Edited Collections

• Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017
• The Fan Fiction Studies Reader. Co-edited with Karen Hellekson. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014.
• Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom. Co-edited with Louisa Ellen Stein. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012.
• Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. Co-edited with Karen Hellekson. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006. [abstracts] [bibliography]

Journal Articles

• Remixing the Remix: Ownership and Appropriation within Fan Communities. Co-written with Shannon Farley. M/C Journal 16.4 (August 2013)
• "Geek Hierarchies, Boundary Policing, and the Gendering of the Good Fan." Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies 10.1 (May 2013).
• "Limit Play: Fan Authorship between Source Text, Intertext, and Context." Co-written with Louisa Ellen Stein. Popular Communication 7.4 (2009). 192-207.
• "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.
• "Reflecting the Subject: The 'Return of the Repressed' in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts." Woolf Studies Annual 7 (2001): 75-101.

Book Chapters

• "Canon-compliance and Creative Analysis in Vorkosigan Saga Fan Fiction." Biology and Manners: The Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold Ed. Una McCormack and Regina Yung Lee. (Forthcoming)
• "Afterword: Fannish Affect and Its Aftermath." Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings and Resurrections in Fandom. Ed. Rebecca Williams. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018. 209-18
• "The Ethics of Studying Online Fandoms." The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. Ed. Melissa A. Click and Suzanne Scott. New York: Routledge, 2017. 9-17.
• "A History of Slash Sexualities: Debating Queer Sex, Gay Politics, and Media Fan Cultures." Co-written with Alexis Lothian. Routledge Companion to Media, Sex, and Sexuality. Ed. Feona Attwood, R.Danielle Egan, Brian McNair, and Clarissa Smith. London: Routledge, 2017. 117-29
• "Fan Fiction Tropes as Literary and Cultural Practices." In Lesen X.0: Rezeptionsprozesse in der digitalen Gegenwart, Reihe digilit. Literatur und Literaturvermittlung im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung. Ed. Sebastian Böck, Julian Ingelmann, Kai Matuszkiewicz, Friederike Schruhl. Göttingen, Germany: V&R unipress, 2017. 127-43.
• "Intertextuality, Performativity, and Intimacy in Fan Fiction Communities." Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. Revised second edition. Ed. Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss and C. Lee Harrington. New York: NYU Press, 2017. 45-59.
• "Beyond Mary Sue: Fan Representation in Fiction and the Complex Negotiation of Gendered Identity." Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture. Ed. Paul Booth and Lucy Bennett. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. 159-68.
• "Media Fan Studies: Eine Bestandsaufnahme." Trans. Vera Cuntz-Leng. Creative Crowds: Perspektiven der Fanforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum. Ed. Vera Cuntz-Leng. Darmstadt: Büchner Verlag, 2014. 17-34.
• "The Return of the Author: Ethos and Identity Politics." Companion to Media Authorship. Ed. Jonathan Gray and Derek Johnson. Oxford: Blackwell, 2013. 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.
• "Fans and Fan Communities." Co-written with Jonathan Gray. Handbook of Media Audiences. Ed. Virginia Nightingale. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011. 425-43.
• "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.
• "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. 207-24.
• "'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. 253-67.
• "'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.

Other Writings

• Feminism and Fandom Revisited: Fan Labor and Feminism. In Focus Editor. Cinema Journal 54.3 (Summer 2015). 110-55.
• Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse." Why Fanfiction is Taking over the World Ed. Anne Jamison. Smart Pop Books. 288-94. [Omegaverse link collection]
• "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.

Invited Talks

• Keynote Speaker, Kino Club 313 Conference." February 17-18, 2017 at Wayne State University, MI.
  • Teaching Vidding: Selecting and Contextualizing Against Diverse Media Experiences. (Prezi) [Dropbox]
  • Framing Fan Fiction: Archival Infrastructures as Consent Negotiations. (Prezi)
• "Fan Fiction Tropes as Literary and Cultural Practices." Invited Speaker. (Prezi) #Lesen. Transformationen traditioneller Rezeptionskonzepte im digitalen Zeitalter. September 29-October 1, 2016 in Göttingen, Germany.
• "Of Mice and Mutants: Competitive Memories and Minority Identity in Holocaust Comics." Invited Speaker. (Prezi) Holocaust in Memory and History. September 7, 2016 in Mobile, AL.
• "LGBT Online Fan Identities and Queer Fan Creativity." Invited Speaker. (Prezi) LGBTQ Lecture Series at USA Archeology Museum. March 10, 2016 in Mobile, AL.
• "#violent amoral unicorn of justice gets knocked up: Syntax and Semantics of Tags as Genre Markers." (Prezi) Keynote Speaker. MASH 2013: Making and Sharing. July 4-5, 2013 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• "Fifty Shades of Fandom: Repetition and Originality in Transformative Fanworks." (Prezi) Keynote Speaker. Borders and Beyond: Considering Communities. October 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.

Conference Presentations

• Captain America, Sex Radical: Queer Political Fantasy in Slash Fan Fiction National Women's Studies Association November 26, 2018 in Atlanta, GA.
• Slash Fandom/Sex Wars: Feminist Conflict and the Politics of Fantasy Fan Studies Network - North America conference. October 25-8, 2018 in Chicago, IL.
• Fan Studies Network - North America conference Organizer. October 25-8, 2018 in Chicago, IL.
• Scholar Fan Salon Organizer. February 26, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA.
• "Intersecting Fan Communities: Competing Expectations, and Scholarly Ethics." HASTAC, November 3-4, 2017 in Orlando, FL.
• "Teaching with Fan Video: Pedagogies and Classroom Strategies." Workshop, Chair. SCMS, March 21-April 26, 2017 in Chicago, GA.
• "Community, Fiction, and Reality: Real People Fiction as Historiography." (Prezi) SCMS, March 30-April 3, 2016 in Atlanta, GA.
• "Ethics and Fan Studies." Workshop. SCMS, March 30-April 3, 2016 in Atlanta, GA.
• "Ethics in Fan Studies Research." Workshop. Fan Studies Network Conference, June 27-28, 2015 in Norwich, UK.
• "Complex Negotiation of National Identity in The Americans." Flow, Sept 11 - 13, 2014 in Austin, TX.
• "Identity, Ethics, and Fan Privacy." with Karen Hellekson. (Prezi) Media in Transition 8, May 3-5, 2013 in Cambridge, MA.
• "The Return of the Author: Ethos and Identity Politics." (Prezi) SCMS, March 6-10, 2013 in Chicago, IL.
• "Collective Scholarships and Digital Interfaces." Workshop, Chair. SCMS, 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." (Prezi) SCMS, 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, 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, March 11-13, 2011 in New Orleans, LA.
• "Get a Life: In-Text Representations and Gendered Fan Behavior." Flow, 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, 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, October 26-29, 2006 in Austin, TX.
• "Will the Real Ending Please Stand Up? Experimental Multimedia Narratives and Fan Fiction." Console-ing Passions, 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. < li>"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./li>
• "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.