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April 26, 2006
Introducing Communities & Culture in the Fantastic
Community and Culture in the Fantastic is a new division of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Its focus will be on ways in which audiences participate in the construction of or engage in active interaction with fantastical texts and ideas. It will look at the communities, both virtual and face-to-face, and the ways in which they create and construct culture and cultural artifacts.
Possible areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Fan culture
Fan fiction (all forms and genres)
Fan art/vidding
Filking
Conventions
Virtual and face-to-face communities and cultures
Cosplay
Roleplaying communities (LARPs, MUSHes, etc)
Video gaming (online, console, PC)
Trading card gaming
Memorabilia and collecting
Viral Marketing
Hypertexts
Folklore/myth/urban legend
The Division Head for the Community and Culture Division is Barbara Lucas. Although her MA concentrated on British Renaissance Literature, her recent scholarship has focused on popular culture, more specifically fan fiction and culture. "Cunning Linguists: The Bisexual Erotics of Words/Silence/Flesh," an article co-authored with Eden Lackner and Robin Anne Reid, will be published
this fall in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet (McFarland). Her online journal is barbedwriting.livejournal.com. She can be reached at barbedwriting AT yahoo.com.
Posted by ChrissieMains at April 26, 2006 11:28 PM