CALL FOR PAPERS
Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is a Gold Open Access
international peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for
Transformative Works edited by Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson.
TWC publishes articles about popular media, fan communities, and
transformative works, broadly conceived. We invite papers on all
related topics, including but not limited to fan fiction, fan vids,
mashups, machinima, film, TV, anime, comic books, video games, and any
and all aspects of the communities of practice that surround them.
TWC's aim is twofold: to provide a publishing outlet that welcomes
fan-related topics, and to promote dialogue between the academic
community and the fan community. We encourage innovative works that
situate these topics within contemporary culture via a variety of
critical approaches, including but not limited to feminism, queer
theory, critical race studies, political economy,
ethnography, reception theory, literary criticism, film studies, and
media studies. We also encourage authors to consider writing personal
essays integrated with scholarship, hypertext articles, or other forms
that embrace the technical possibilities of the Web and test the
limits of the genre of academic writing. TWC copyrights under a
Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.
*Theory* accepts blind peer-reviewed essays that are often
interdisciplinary, with a conceptual focus and a theoretical frame
that offers expansive interventions in the field of fan studies
(5,000–8,000 words). *Praxis* analyzes the particular, in contrast to
Theory's broader vantage. Essays are blind peer reviewed and may apply
a specific theory to a
formation or artifact; explicate fan practice; perform a detailed
reading of a specific text; or otherwise relate transformative
phenomena to social, literary, technological, and/or historical
frameworks (4,000–7,000 words). *Symposium* is a section of
editorially reviewed concise, thematically contained short essays that
provide insight into current developments and debates surrounding any
topic related to fandom or transformative media and cultures
(1,500–2,500 words).
*Reviews* offer critical summaries of items of interest in the fields
of fan and media studies, including books, new journals, and Web
sites. Reviews incorporate a description of the item's content, an
assessment of its likely audience, and an evaluation of its importance
in a larger context (1,500–2,500 words). Review submissions undergo
editorial review; submit inquiries first to
review_at_transformativeworks.org. TWC has rolling submissions.
Contributors should submit online through the Web site
(http://journal.transformativeworks.org).
Inquiries may be sent to the editors (editor_at_transformativeworks.org).
The call for papers is also available as a .pdf download sized for
U.S. Letter or European A4. Please feel free to link, download, print,
distribute, or post.
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Iain Robert Smith
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
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