Dr Rebecca Williams

So good to come across your own book while spring-cleaning the books you own. "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan"examines Anglophone romance reading community in Pakistan & highlights the readers' perspective and preferences.
#Romancelandia #Fandom #AcademicSky @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

I wrote a book and it has a cover now! (Pre-order up, available Feb 5, 2026)

www.bloomsbury.com/us/fractured...

Research time ‘sacrificed’ as universities cut costs and jobs - Research Professional News Academics at institutions implementing job cuts warn of “more work falling on fewer shoulders”

Sweeping redundancies at universities across the UK mean that research time is being “sacrificed” as academic staff shoulder ever greater workloads, three University and College Union branch presidents have warned.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers Viral student-run TikTok and Instagram accounts are using AI to make memes of school faculty comparing them to figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Viral student-run TikTok and Instagram accounts are using AI to make memes of school faculty comparing them to figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Benjamin Netanyahu. www.wired.com/story/teens-...

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'

Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3

Journal of Fandom Studies Journal of Fandom Studies; Journal of Fandom Studies seeks to offer scholars a dedicated, peer-reviewed publication that promotes current scholarship into the fields of fan and audience studies across...

CFP: Journal of Fandom Studies

Special Issue: ‘Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture’

Guest Editors:

Yvonne Gonzales, University of Southern California

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New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

de Moura, V., Moura, B. M., de Souza-Leão, A. L. M., & Hermann, V. (2026). Toot or Boot? Drag Celebrification and Fannish Performativity in the Brazilian RuPaul’s Drag Race Fandom. Brazilian Administration Review, 23(1), e250131.

#FanStudies

doi.org/10.1590/1807...

Is the Western-origin term “queerbaiting” a fair way to judge Thai BL and GL series? What if, instead, we look at them through the lens of a “queer fantasy economy”? 🏳️‍🌈

Full text: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#ThaiBL #ThaiGL #Yseries #SeriesY #Queerbaiting @evacyli.bsky.social

We hope to see you at the SIG-sponsored panels and/or at our SIG social at SCMS 2026! We'll also be using our Discord, so if you miss a panel or can't attend the conference, you can still be part of the conversation.

Books spotlights Coming in paperback this May From Broadway to The Bronx By Veronika Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier A fascinating and vibrant depiction of New York City in song across a variety of different genres, focusing on Broadway, musical theatre, hip hop, punk, folk and jazz genres, as well as the work of New York-born artists and those who are intimately connected with the city.

So this is happening! Paperback release of our edited collection with @intellectbooks.bsky.social! 🎧🗽🚕

More info on the Celtic Crescent studentship based at University of South Wales/RWCMD - The Establishment and Impact Evaluation of a Digital-First, Multi-Site, National Poetry Library of Wales (scroll down to bottom of the page).

www.southwales.ac.uk/gradschool/t...

AHRC Celtic Crescent: Creative Economy Doctoral Focal Award

Celtic Crescent is recruiting its first cohort of 6 fully-funded PhDs supported by AHRC through its Doctoral Focal Awards. (October 2026)

We are holding a webinar for interested applicants Friday 13 March. Access the webinar by registering here & for more info:

www.bangor.ac.uk/celtic-cresc...

How the 'red v blue school wars' exposed the social media gap between children and parents Parents were frightened by social posts that seemed to encourage violence at schools. But it was more complicated than it looked

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

TikTok Serving as a Refuge for a Fandom Encouraging the Next School Shooters TikTok is becoming a new hub for the “True Crime Community” (TCC), an online fandom that glorifies mass killers through memes, edits, and AI-generated videos. As the subculture has migrated from platf...

globalextremism.org/post/tiktok-...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

New article in International Journal of Cultural Studies ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Death to Chad and Stacy: Incels and anti-fandom as group identity

Matthew L. and Kellen Sharp

Volume 27, Issue 3

#FanStudies

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No problem!

Distributing queer storyworlds in US, UK, Australian, and Canadian mainstream television drama - Damien John O’Meara, Whitney Monaghan, 2026 This article examines the distribution of LGBTQ+ television from the 1990s to the beginning of the 2020s. It presents new data of what queer-oriented series wer...

New in Critical Studies in Television

Distributing queer storyworlds in US, UK, Australian, and Canadian mainstream television drama

Damien John O’Meara and Whitney Monaghan

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Today is #InternationalWomensDay! 💗

Celebrate with 70% off the eBook of 'CTRL HATE DELETE', which outlines how to fight the rising tide of online misogyny and make online spaces more equal and inclusive.

🌟Just use code IWD70 at checkout! 🌟

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Got a new article out today in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's about the ways in which the music press constructed race in late 20c Britain. Open access so do share it around!

Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @uniofreading.bsky.social for supporting the research.

doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

It’s Bad: What Now? - Nancy K. Baym, 2026 This essay reflects on a decade of worsening social media harms—inequality, algorithmic power, precarious labor, and data extraction—arguing for renewed interdi...

Wonderful commentary by @nancybaym.bsky.social - "It's Bad. Now What?" Manages to encapsulate what so many of the conversations I've had with other digital media scholars the last year or two have centred around. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article out in Feminist Review 📢 When queer characters are written off screen, fans often mobilise rather than move on. I argue these practices are queer mnemonic labour—collective efforts to contest erasure and imagine queer futures 🏳️‍🌈 #OpenAccess at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A brief cinematic history of Frankenstein’s Bride as a feminist icon New film The Bride! brings the character to life in moody 1930s Chicago.

New film The Bride! brings the character to life in moody 1930s Chicago.

Upcoming Event at Canvas8 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Free Agent Fandom
How to speak to sports fans in the post-loyalty era

Wednesday 25 Mar 2026
10:00 GMT • 18:00 SGT
17:00 GMT • 10:00 PDT • 13:00 EDT

#FanStudies

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Transcultural fan studies with a ‘Queer Asia’ focus in the 2020s. Jamie J. Zhao (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

Highlighting relevant changes in academic and social worlds, this paper advocates for a paradigm shift in which Asia is recognized as the origin—imaginatively and figuratively—for gender and sexual discourses in transcultural fandom studies.

Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1177/1367...

Laura Clancy and Hannah Yelin Digital hate, health and safety, and the labour politics of public academia: ‘Universities don’t value this sort of work at all’ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261261420671 The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst

Do universities fail to protect researchers when their public-facing work receives backlash?

@lauraclancy.bsky.social @hannahyelin.bsky.social take a closer look at academic labour, the risks of public engagement and the politics of visibility.

#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/1UkhPWs

AAS2026 is already around the corner!
If you have some time on Saturday (March 14) at 2:00 pm.
Please join us in Room 303 of the Vancouver Convention Center for our panel: "K-pop Fandom(s) and Authenticity: When Fans Control the Narrative."
cdmcd.co/wjwXxw #AAS2026

CfP - JDMP Special Issue: Video streaming policy and genre on demand. Deadline: March 09, 2026. Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy (JDMP) #JDMPJournal Special Issue: ‘Video streaming policy and genre on demand’ Guest Editors: Jessica Balanzategui, Andrew Lynch and Alexa Scarlata…

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CfP: edited collection “Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles”. Deadline: May 04, 2026 Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles This edited volume proposes the first critical anthology devoted to television title sequences as a distinct and influential mode of visual…

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Ditto has taken over Tokyo’s Hanzomon Line for a limited time The shapeshifting purple blob Pokémon is getting some much-needed love – it’s collaborating with the subway line until March 15

www.timeout.com/tokyo/news/d...

New Open Access Research Article 🎥

Prosthetic memory and film-induced dark tourism in the specific post-conflict context: a divergent young adults’ perspective.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#film #memories #tourism