My work
As of July 2023, here's what I'm up to!
Ongoing Projects
The "Blorbo Survey" (homepage here)
This project, in progress with co-author Sarah Breyfogle, collects fans' perspectives on platform-specific terminology and definitions of comfort characters.
"Platforms & Fans" special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures
This special issue explores how fans, fandom communities, and fanworks engage with digital platforms.
Catching Chen Qing Ling
This edited collection focuses on the popular Chinese web drama Chen Qing Ling (The Untamed), its contexts, and its audiences. This is a multi-disciplinary collection that considers the show's popularity, influences, and effects from a variety of cultural and critical viewpoints.
#CritRoleBib (Twitter)
This is a collaboratively-run resource collection project seeking to collect the bibliographic information for all scholarship (and, ongoing, trade and media coverage) for the web series Critical Role. We invite submissions for this collaborative work!
Other writing projects at present include:
This project, in progress with co-author Sarah Breyfogle, collects fans' perspectives on platform-specific terminology and definitions of comfort characters.
- Currently working on data analysis
"Platforms & Fans" special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures
This special issue explores how fans, fandom communities, and fanworks engage with digital platforms.
- Co-editing with Effie Sapuridis and Lesley Willard
- Forthcoming March 2024
Catching Chen Qing Ling
This edited collection focuses on the popular Chinese web drama Chen Qing Ling (The Untamed), its contexts, and its audiences. This is a multi-disciplinary collection that considers the show's popularity, influences, and effects from a variety of cultural and critical viewpoints.
- Co-editing with Dr. Yue (Cathy) Wang
- Manuscript currently under contract, anticipated for release in late 2023
#CritRoleBib (Twitter)
This is a collaboratively-run resource collection project seeking to collect the bibliographic information for all scholarship (and, ongoing, trade and media coverage) for the web series Critical Role. We invite submissions for this collaborative work!
- See all scholarship presently accounted for here
- Visit our associated website The Library of Exandria here
Other writing projects at present include:
- co-authored article on D&D fans
- co-authored book chapter on racebent Tolkien fanworks
- co-edited JCMS "In Focus" dossier on Actual Play texts
RECENT PROJECTS
Anime Conventions During & After Covid-19 (full dataset here)
This survey, which was launched in April 2021 and ran through September 2021, collected information from anime con-goers and fans. It asked how these groups experienced and considered changes in the anime convention scene during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in 2020-2021 before cons widely resumed in-person events.
The Tolkien Fanfiction Survey (Twitter)
This survey, which was launched in August 2020 and ran through March 2021, has collected self-reported data on the habits, beliefs, and preferences of Tolkien fans who participate in reading and/or writing fanfiction. This is the second survey in a longitudinal research project conducted to learn more about the practices of Tolkien fans in relation to Tolkien's books and Jackson's films.
This survey, which was launched in April 2021 and ran through September 2021, collected information from anime con-goers and fans. It asked how these groups experienced and considered changes in the anime convention scene during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in 2020-2021 before cons widely resumed in-person events.
- Conducted with Billy Tringali, law librarian at Babson College
- IRB exemption granted through the University of Utah, March 2021
The Tolkien Fanfiction Survey (Twitter)
This survey, which was launched in August 2020 and ran through March 2021, has collected self-reported data on the habits, beliefs, and preferences of Tolkien fans who participate in reading and/or writing fanfiction. This is the second survey in a longitudinal research project conducted to learn more about the practices of Tolkien fans in relation to Tolkien's books and Jackson's films.
- Conducted with Dawn "Felagund" Walls-Thumma, independent scholar in Tolkien studies
- IRB exemption granted through the University of Utah, August 2020
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