SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG

SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus (@scmsqtc.bsky.social) just announced the 2027 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize. Here are the details:

Kudos to Ideas on Fire authors Kristine Ask, Ashley Guajardo, Tanja Sihvonen, and Jess Tompkins on the release of Play Like a Fangirl: Creative Desire in Video Games, out now from @mitpress.bsky.social. 🎊 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/830546... #IoFAuthors

Fanfiction as Networked Literature: @sebsp.bsky.social reviews Suzanne R. Black's BETWEEN NOVEL AND NETWORK (@lsupress.bsky.social)

I forgot to tag people! (Please don't revoke my social media privileges!) @fanstudies.bsky.social @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social @scmsfaas.bsky.social #FanStudies

Today’s the day! Join us for our first event of the year, a book talk with Robert Kozinets and Henry Jenkins at 9am/12pm/5pm. Register here: usc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️ The Danmei Culture in Chinese Media and Society: Male-Male Romance, Resistance and Representation By Tingting Hu & Liang Ge #FanStudies www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

New book day! Very pleased to have a chapter in this collection on true crime, edited by the wonderful @tanyah.bsky.social and others who I don't have on Bluesky. Not entirely sure Loki was impressed though...

If you'd like to learn more about the book Bridging Design and Fandom and hear from some of the chapter authors, I will be holding a launch event on 20th October, in Lancaster and online. Please do come and join us! lancaster-uk.libcal.com/event/4574001

Announcing the annual Call for Translations from our Translation/Publication Committee! Accepting proposals to translate outstanding work on cinema + media studies, with publication in an upcoming issue of jcmsjournal.bsky.social. Full details: buff.ly/I6ZXGe3 Submit by Oct. 23, 2026!

Tuesday is the 13th, sorry folks! Updated flyer coming soon!

Join us for our first event of the year, a talk with Henry Jenkins and Robert Kozinets about their book series, Frames of Fandom, on Tues, Oct. 16 at 9am/12pm/5pm. Register here: tinyurl.com/faasframesev.... A Zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the event.

Velvet Light Trap has extended the deadline on this issue to Oct. 11! Not too late to submit!

UK-based postdoctoral – or equivalent – researchers in the humanities and social sciences can still apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. The deadline is 4 Nov for institutional applicants and 28 Oct for independent scholars. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4iwQQtI

Wales-based SIG members, potential alt-ac job!

Let's try this again, since I forgot I don't actually give my name on this account and not everyone knows me by my acafanmom username: I'm Lori (Hitchcock) Morimoto, I do media fan studies and dabble in Japanese popular culture. If you use any of my academic work on your syllabi, can you ping me?

Interested in helping shape the future of SCMS? Self-nominations for upcoming vacancies on the SCMS Board are open through Sept. 15. Thank you to all members willing to contribute their time, experience, and leadership to SCMS. Learn more and submit: buff.ly/gYtDgVE

Deadline in Two Weeks: Have you been thinking about becoming the next Editor(s) of JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies? Now’s the time to apply! Learn more about the role & responsibilities, and apply online by Sept. 18, 2026: buff.ly/aEksRKy

Find & follow your favorite university presses on this platform with this handy starter pack of our members: go.bsky.app/7p95p7B And if you're looking for university presses that publish in a certain field, consult our Subject Area Grid: https://bit.ly/3C7ASUc. #ReadUP

This morning we put out a call for faculty judges for our grad essay contest. By lunchtime, we already had the five volunteers we need. Fan studies academics, you're awesome!

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Banning the Fans: Policing Black Women, Policing Black Joy Neal A. Lester Journal of American Culture #FanStudies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New special issue ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Jane Austen's Global Fan Cultures #FanStudies jasna.org/publications...

As promised/threatened, I'm doing the self promotion thing describing the chapters in my new book, Bridging Design and Fandom! I'll start with my introduction - it explains the fields of design research and fan studies, and how they come together as a whole new thing. doi.org/10.1108/978-...

What better way to kick off the countdown to FSNNA 2026 Conference than by announcing our first special event?? 🗓️ Oct 22, 5pm ET, members of our very own organizing committee are hosting a #FanStudies Methods Roundtable! 🔗 Info & registration: website-8aff4977.tou.dpn.mybluehost.me/2026-confere...

✨ Take your ticket (free!) for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026 🌈🥹⬇️⬇️ join us online from September 14 to 17 and listen to talks on fashion, manga, anime, video games, idols, etc by scholars from around the world!! events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...

A cool opportunity! Opportunity to propose sessions for BFI's "Woman with a Movie Camera" summit 2027! Deadline in about three weeks. www.bfi.org.uk/jobs-opportu...

Grad students: Last day to submit to the SIG essay contest! tinyurl.com/faasgradessay26

Who’s gonna do it?

I'm happy to share a new 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 for an edited collection on game preservation in Canada, with co-editors @jeanketterling.bsky.social and @videogamehistorian.bsky.social. We welcome essays, material studies, and interviews. Full details at the link below - please share widely!

Friday for SCMS 27 submissions, and Monday for the SIG's graduate student essay contest! You can submit to that here: tinyurl.com/faasgradessay26

Don't forget that this Friday at 5pm Central is the deadline for submitting your proposal for #SCMS27 in Montreal! www.cmstudies.org/page/SCMS2027

Amazing job opportunity in American cinema/television at the University of Chicago! Deadline Oct. 19! apply.interfolio.com/190975

CFP: The Velvet Light Trap volume 100, "Chronologies" Deadline: Sept. 20 General VLT guidelines are here: utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the... But the current CFP isn't yet to their website, so check out the post on our SIG FB page: www.facebook.com/groups/scmsf...

"Nostalgic Futures: The Reactionary Fantasies of Speculative Fiction Fandoms" by Max Dosser www.rutgersuniversit... #ScienceFiction #CharacterAdaption #StarWars

My new edited book is out today! And it's open access so you can all read it for free! I'm so excited to share what all these amazing authors have to say about work that crosses design research and fan studies. I'll be highlighting chapters over the next few days. www.emerald.com/books/edited...

Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design, edited by the amazing @ladylark.bsky.social, is now available open access! My chapter looks at sustainable screen tourism and the different approaches that should be considered for creating that. www.emerald.com/books/edited...

SIG co-chair @bridgetkies.bsky.social on homonormativity and slash

New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️ It's Women's Time in Soccer! Fandom, Digitality and the Feminine Game Edited ByKausik Bandyopadhyay #FanStudies www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

CFP: Workshop „Confessions of Bad Taste: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Guilty Pleasures“ www.kulturwissenschaften.de/cfp-workshop...

Our latest CfP is out. If you're interested in platformed television, we'd love to hear from you! Wir akzeptieren auch Einreichungen auf Deutsch! journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce... #fanstudies #televisionstudies #cfp #mediastudies #academicsky

Call for Abstracts - Fandom | Cultures | Research Themed Issue 2-27: Upstairs, Downstairs: Television and Platforms Between Seduction and Agency #FanStudies journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...

Reminder: The SCMS Board Self-Nomination Form is still open. If you're interested in helping guide the future of SCMS, we encourage you to submit a self-nomination for consideration by the Nominating Committee. The deadline is September 15, 2026. More: buff.ly/yCIcHkU

Deadline Aug 31!

hey #fanstudies folks, come work with me at @journal.transformativeworks.org! journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

I am also teaching (undergraduate) #FanStudies this year, for the first time officially! What should I not forget to include?

Planning to submit a proposal? Start a draft now! You can preview all the required questions and save your proposal draft as you go. Submit by the deadline: Friday, August 28, 2026. #SCMS27

Looking for a panel for #SCMS27? There's a whole bunch of chatter and planning in our SIG Discord. You might just find your co-panelists there! If you need help joining, just DM us here.

Call for Peer Reviewers Intellect is seeking peer reviewers across our full range of journals! To express interest in peer reviewing please contact the editor of the relevant journal directly. All Intellect journals can be viewed here: https://www.intellectbooks.com/journals/all-titles

Really pleased to have a new article out in Popular Communication, with my favourite co-author @simoned.bsky.social. We looked at memes and GIFs circulating during the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial and how these enabled fans to discuss and perform cancellation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its third edition!!!✨🎀 📩 Send us your abstract by August 15 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨ Share widely!

New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Korean Culture Fandoms Affective Practices and Identity in a Global Context Editors: Ratan Kumar Roy #FanStudies link.springer.com/book/10.1007...