Fan criticism is the institutionalization of feminime reading practices just as the dominant mode of academic criticism is the institutionalization of masculine learning practices.
JENKINS, HENRY (1992). TEXTUAL POACHER, ROUTLEDGE, 118.
If Jenkins already saw fandom as a type of criticism parallel to literary criticism, we might have an understanding of parallel fandom studies: the ones inside academia and the ones surrounding it. There are already spaces in fandom where these parallel stories meet, Fanhackers aim to be such a space for us.
Aca fan discourse, fandom academic discourse