The ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards aspire to generate enthusiasm and prestige for this new mode of publication among humanistic scholars. The prizes further aim...

The community that underpins Heated Rivalry, explained.

In her book The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (2019), Ebony Elizabeth Thomas explains that privileging marginalized characters in her examination of the fantastic illustrates how “race and the imagination ...

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How the teen drama became the most talked-about series of the last few months.

Below is a manageable list of a dozen theater books — recently published or soon to be– that look to be good summer reads: five memoirs or biographies, four books of history or criticism, three nov…

Heather McGhee, Co-Chair of Color of Change, and Ian Haney Lopez, author of "Dog Whistle Politics", explain how racism h

What's the same and what's different about a fan studies field built on bell hooks rather than on Henry Jenkins, Constance Penley, or Lisa Lewis? As a visual art practice, vidding in particular would…

This paper argues that the practices and aesthetics of vidding were structured by the relationship of Star Trek’s female fans to that particular televisual text. Star Trek fandom was the crucible…

For two decades, fans have been waking up on Christmas morning to custom, obsession-feeding gifts from strangers.