go and catch a falling star, get with child a mandrake root

[lotesse]

You know what's irritating? I'm putting together a proposal for a section of Freshman Comp thematically centered around SFF and cultural studies - and all the good essays that come to my mind first are bits of fannish meta. Wargh. How are you all so much smarter than everybody else?!(Actually, I have really good feminist essays, but since I tend to get much of my chromatic theory/information in fanspaces I have far fewer citable sources for that, and I do want to balance the subject matter of the course.)

Comments

[executrix]

I can't remember if you know altariel? Awesome writer of both fan- and profic and also awesome teacher who has been posting about her SF course, so she'd be a great resource.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm doing a similar thing for Utopian/dystopian lit.; good luck!

Some of my classes have been struggling with the concept of antihero lately; today I'm treating them to "Jaynestown." I love it when fandom is academically appropriate. :D

[anthimeria]

Speaking of fannish meta, I have a friend who needs to find meta/semi-scholarly articles/blog posts/etc about fanfiction. I used to have many of these, but all my bookmarks died with the old laptop.

Help?

[lotesse]

try these!

Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures

the metafandom delicious, which lets you sift posts linked on metafandom by topic and is ruddy aweseome

[anthimeria]

Thank you! Will pass on the links.

If you think of anything else by fandom about fandom that I could pass on (or anywhere/anyone else I should ask), please let me know!