Last post, I looked at academic journals that published scholarship in fan studies; today, we’ll take a tour of some fandom-specific book series at specific presses.
Fandom & Culture Series, U Iowa – https://uipress.uiowa.edu/series/fandom-culture
Fandom & Culture seeks dynamic books that challenge readers to reexamine preconceived notions of fandom, fan communities, and fan works. Titles in this series employ innovative methods and analysis that address the unique dimensions of fan passions, whether dealing with personal reflections or transcultural topics.
Sample work:
Austentatious: the Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans, (2019) by Holly Luetkenhaus and Zoe Weinstein.
https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/austentatious
Bloomsbury Fandom Primers – https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/bloomsbury-fandom-primers/
The Bloomsbury Fandom Primer series publishes original works from an international range of scholars that offer short, pointed, and deliberate investigations of particularly important fandoms, moments within fan history, transcultural fan audiences, debates within fandom and fan studies, unique fan practices, or events within fandom that speak to larger cultural issues
Sample work:
The Construction of Race in Les Misérables Fanworks: Liberty, Equality, Diversity, (2024) by Nemo Madeleine Sugimoto Martin
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/construction-of-race-in-les-mis%C3%A9rables-fanworks-9798765107669
Routledge Advances in Fan and Fandom Studies – https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Advances-in-Fan-and-Fandom-Studies/book-series/FAN
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.
Sample work:
Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review (20245 by Anne Korfmacher
https://www.routledge.com/Fan-Podcasts-Rewatch-Recap-Review/Korfmacher/p/book/9781032721972