Routledge Advances in Fan and Fandom Studies
About the Book Series
This exciting and innovative series publishes new and cutting-edge research on everything fan- and fandom-related. Covering all forms of media, the series presents new insights into this dynamic subject. We welcome new submissions to the series. To enquire about a submission, please contact the commissioning editor for media, cultural and communication studies, Suzanne Richardson, at [email protected],
The Infrastructures of Global Fandom: Experience, Memory, and Access
1st Edition
By Vlada Botorić
March 11, 2027
The Infrastructures of Global Fandom takes an ethnographic approach to the study of how contemporary fandoms are made, maintained, and remembered through objects, collecting practices, cultural spaces, and branded experiences. Drawing on more than a decade of international fieldwork, the book ...
Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice-As-Research: Otherness, Intersectionality and Fan Studies
1st Edition
By Kathryn Beaton
November 24, 2026
Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice‑As‑Research: Otherness, Intersectionality and Fan Studies explores the diversity of fans and how they form and express their identity within fandom. Main themes in this book include otherness, fans with disabilities, fans within the LGBTQIA...
Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review
1st Edition
By Anne Korfmacher
December 26, 2025
Starting from the observation of the ubiquity of fan podcasts engaging in media commentary, this book explores three fan podcast genres in which commentary manifests as a structuring form: rewatch and reread podcasts, recap podcasts, and review podcasts. The author conducts a formalist genre ...
Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction: Pocket Publics
1st Edition
By Anne Kustritz
May 06, 2025
This book explores slash fan fiction communities during the pivotal years of the late 1990s and early 2000s as the practice transitioned from print to digital circulation. Delving into over ten years of online and in-person ethnography, the book offers an in-depth examination of slash fan fiction –...