Kristina Busse

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Education

Teaching

Research

Books and Edited Collections

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

"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. Forthcoming.
"Beyond Mary Sue: Fan Representation in Fiction and the Complex Negotiation of Gendered Identity." Seeing Fans: Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture. Ed. Paul Booth and Lucy Bennett. London: Bloomsbury. Forthcoming.
"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. Forthcoming.
"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.
"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

Invited Talks

Conference Presentations

"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. Media in Transition 8, May 3-5, 2013 in Cambridge, MA.
"The Return of the Author: Ethos and Identity Politics" 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" 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.
"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.