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Volume 1: Issue 1 – Special Issue: Famous Monsters of Filmland

Editorial: Universal fandom – Katherine Larsen

Feasting our eyes on the accursed ugliness: Famous Monsters, Lon Chaney fandom and undoing male masochism – Mark Andrew Hain

Materializing monsters: Aurora models, garage kits and the object practices of horror fandom – Bob Rehak

Lurking in the Shadows: Famous Monsters of Filmland and its female fans – Natasha Ritsma

Monster mashups: At home with Famous Monsters of Filmland – Matt Yockey

I was a (pre) teenage monster – Henry Jenkins

Interview: Dr. Ackula or: How I learned to stop worrying and love fandom – Matt Yockey

 Volume 1: Issue 2 – General Issue

Argumenting fan/academic dialogue: New directions in fan research – Paul Booth

A case of identity: Role playing social media and BBC Sherlock – Ann McClellan

‘Drinking the Koo Aid’ of cult TV: Fans, followers, and fringe religions in Strangers with Candy and Veronica Mars

Community Clip show: Examining the recursive collaboration between producers and viewers of a postmodern sitcom – Rekha Sharma

‘I’m not a lawyer but . . .’: Fan disclaimers and claims against copyright law – Jenny Roth and Monica Flegel

Continuing the West Wing in 140 characters or less: Improvised simulation on Twitter – Inger-Lise Bore and Jonathan Hickman

Volume 2: Issue 1 - General Issue

Editorial: Moving forward, looking back – Katherine Larsen

Tracing Textual Poachers: Reflections on the development of fan studies and digital fandom – Lucy Bennett

‘I’m a lawyer, not an ethnographer Jim’: Textual Poachers and fair use – Rebecca Tushnet

Doctor Who’s textual commentators: Fandom, collective memory, and the self-commodification of fanfac – Matt Hills

Fan studies: Grappling with an ‘undisciplined’ discipline – Sam Ford

Fuck yeah, Fandom is beautiful – Francesca Coppa

Volume 2: Issue 2  - General Issue

Fandom  studies as I see it – Henry Jenkins

Customized action figures: Multi-dimensional fandom and fannish fiction – Victoria Godwin

Canon authors and fannish interaction – Maria Lindgren Leavenworth

Negotiating meaning in the consumption of the past – Fiona Smith and Mary Brown

Writing with the Winchesters: Metatextual Wincest and the provisional practice of happy endings – KT Torrey

Review: Doctor Who in time and Space edited by Gillian Leitch - Brandon Knoecny

Volume 3: Issue 1 – Special Issue: K-Pop

Editorial: Filling the void: Researching the Korean Wave (Hallyu) fandom – Crystal Anderson and Doobo Shim

From Holy Land to ‘Hallyu Land’: The symbolic journey following the Korean Wave in Israel – Irina Lyan and Alon Levkowitz

‘Transatlantic connection;:K-pop and K-drama in Spain and Latin America – Dani Madrid-Morales and Bruno Lovric

Uncles’ genereation: Adult male fans and alternative masculinities in South Korean popular music – Jarryn Ha

Queering spectatorship in K-pop: The androgynous male dancing body and western female fandom – Chuyun Oh

Reshaped, reconnected and redefined: Media portrayals of Korean pop idol fandom in Korea – Ju Oak Kim

Queering stars: Fan play and capital appropriation in the age of digital media – Jungmin Kwon

Volume 3: Issue 2 - General Issue

Editorial: Taking stock – Katherine Larsen

G.I. Joe vs. Barbie: Anti-Fandom, fashion, dolls, and one-sixth scale action figures – Victoria Godwin

‘What Would Sagan Do?”: The fandom and anti-fandom of Carl Sagan – Michael Lachney

Fannies and fanzines: Mail art and fan clubs in the 1970’s – Kirsten Olds

Everybody’s bi in the future: Constructing sexuality in the Star Trek reboot fandom – Cait Coker

Con Culture: A survey of fans and fandom – Candie Syphrint Kington

Review: Fandom, Image and Authenticity, Jennifer Otter - Rebecca Williams

Review: Cult Collectors: Nostalgia, Fandom and Collecting, Lincoln Geraghty - Victoria Godwin

Volume 3: Issue 3 – Special Issue: Women and Comics

Editorial: Thematic issue: Comic Book women in the Journal of Fandom Studies – Caryn E. Neumann

Who’s messing with Jane?” Graphic novels and the Jane Austen fan – Leigh Anne Howard

Misogynoir and antiblack racism: What The Walking Dead teaches us about the limits of Speculative Fiction fandom – Dominique Deirdre Johnson

Savage sexism: Examining gendered intelligence in Hulk and She-Hulk comics – Elizabeth Settoducato

The fan and the female superhero in comic books – Caryn E. Neumann and Lori L. Parks

The Adventures of Ms. Meta: The female superhero and her cultural importance – Sarah Zaidan

Review: Time on TV: Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television, Paul Booth - Veronica Popp

Review: The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures, Kinda Duits, Koos Zwaan, and Stijn Reinders -  Elliot Hardman

Volume 4: Issue 1 – General Issue

‘If Duchamp’s toilet can be a masterpiece . . . ‘: Slash manips and fannish readymades – Joseph Brennan

Girl!Version: The feminist framework for regendered characters in fanwork – Lucy Baker

Fan pleasure and profit: Use-value, exchange-value, and one-sixth scale action figure customization – Victoria Godwin

The contemporary Comic Market: A study of a subculture Aida Miho (translated by Patrick W. Galbraith)

Investigating sports rivals: Number, evaluations and relationship with team identification – Daniel Wann, Cody T. Harvard, Fredrick G. Grieve, Jason R. Lanter, Julie A Partridge and Ryan K. Zapalac

Candy coloured ponies and pastel uniforms: Military Bronies and masculine innocence – Maria Patrice Amon

Making global audiences for a Hollywood ‘blockbuster’ feature film: Marketability, playability and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) – Charles H. Davis, Carolyn Michelle, Ann Hardy ad Craig Hight

Review: Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games, Paul Booth - Nicolle Lamerichs

Volume 4: Issue 2 –  Special Issue: Musicking in Media Fandom

Editorial: Muscking in media fandom – Jessica Getman and Aya Esther Hayashi

Sherlock’s violin: Making the Victorian modern through musical fan culture – Elizabeth A Clendinning

Folk music in a digital age: The importance of face-to-face community values in filk music – Sally Childs-Helton

Fandom’s new frontier: Star Trek in the concert hall – Brooke McCorkle

‘Reading and [w]rocking’: Morality and musical creativity in the Harry Potter fandom – Catherine Hall

Recut and re-tuned: Fan-produced parody trailers – James Deaville

Volume 4: Issue 3 – Special Issue: Ethics in Fan Studies

Editorial: Where we are – Katherine Larsen

Dear Researcher: Rethinking engagement with fan authors – EJ Nielsen

Transparency and reciprocity: Respecting fannish spaces in scholarly research – Judith Fathallah

Let’s make it personal!: Ontological ethics in fan studies – Thessa Jensen

Ethics, fan studies, and Institutional Review Boards – Robin Anne Reid

‘I hate Beyonce and I don’t care who knows it’: Towards an ethics of studying anti-fandom – Bethan Jones

Growing pains: The changing ethical landscape of fan studies – Lynn Zubernis and Kelsey Davis

Unsettling relations” Disrupting the ethical subject in fan studies research – Natasha Whiteman

Invitation vs. intrusion: Contemplating the ethics of teaching fan methods – Katherine Anderson Howell

Volume 5: Issue 1 – General Issue

Can Pikachu die?: Online fan conspiracy theories and the Pokemon gaming unbiverse – Lincoln Geraghty

Clawing through the fourth wall: Interactions between the fans and creators of MTV’s Teen Wolf – Emily Thomas

Tales from the tailgate: The influence of fandom, musical tourism and pilgrimage on identity transformations – Jennifer L. Erdely and Deborah Cunningham Breede

‘Welcome to the jungle’: Content creators and fan entitlement in the furry fandom – Cortney N. Plante, Stephen Reysen, Sharon Roberts and Kathleen Gerbasi

The peacock manoeuvre: Ethnographic research on group behavious anong Danish ultras groups – Rasmus Beedholm Laursen

‘Ricky, this is amazing!’: Disney nostalgia, new media users, and extreme fans of the WDW Kingdoncast – Olympia Kiriakou

Steeotyped fans and social critique: Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Eminem’s ‘Stan’

Interview with Julian C. H. Lee on his cosplay short non-fiction film Be a Superhero – Julian C. H. Lee and Aya Ono

Volume 5: Issue 2 – Special Issue: Fan Spaces

Editorial: Introduction: Fan Spaces – E.J. Nielsen

On the importance of presence within fandom spaces – Thessa Jensen

Conversations in the margins: Fannish paratexts and their premodern roots – Kavita Mundan Finn

We’ll always have purgatory: Fan spaces and social media – J.S.A. Lowe

Marc Bolan rock shrine: Pilgrimage, identity and ownership in a fan community – Jennifer Otter Bickerdike and Niamh Downing

The liminality of the line and the place of fans at Comic Con – Erin Hanna

 Volume 5: Issue 3 –General Issue

Speaking of ‘paratexts’: A theoretical revisitation – Martin Barker

Constructing the fannish place: Ritual and sacred space in a Sherlock fan pilgrimage – J. Caroline Toy

Playing by the rules: Storium, Star Wars and ludic fandom – Paul Booth

From<mrs-niall-horan-until-the-end>to <keepingupwith1d>:Online usernames in the One Direction fandom - Lisa Donlan

The everyday Disney side: Disneybounding and casual cosplay – Nettie A. Brock

‘I read comics from a feministic point of view’: Conceptualizing the transmedia ethos of the Captain Marvel fan community – Matthew Freeman and Charlotte Taylor-Ashfield