Academic publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Sapuridis, E., and M. Alberto. “Self-Insert Fanfiction as Digital Technology of the Self.” Humanities 11: 3 (2022), n.p. https://doi.org/10.3390/h11030068
“The Prosthetic Impulse Revisited in A.I. Artificial Intelligence.” M/C Journal 22: 5 (2019). Available at: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/1591
“Seduction as Mythopoeic Accounting for Evil in Tolkien’s Work.” Mythlore 35:2 (2017): 63-79. Also available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol35/iss2/5
"‘The effort to translate’: Fan Film Culture and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien.” (2016). Journal of Tolkien Research 3:3 (2016): n.p. Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol3/iss3/2/
“The Prosthetic Impulse Revisited in A.I. Artificial Intelligence.” M/C Journal 22: 5 (2019). Available at: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/1591
“Seduction as Mythopoeic Accounting for Evil in Tolkien’s Work.” Mythlore 35:2 (2017): 63-79. Also available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol35/iss2/5
"‘The effort to translate’: Fan Film Culture and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien.” (2016). Journal of Tolkien Research 3:3 (2016): n.p. Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol3/iss3/2/
Book Chapters
Currently in press:
"Original Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat's Captive Prince." In New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century. Ed. Susan Fanetti. McFarland, 2022. 216-232.
Co-authored with Dawn Walls-Thumma. “Exploring the Longevity of Tolkien Fandom.” In Fandom The Next Generation: Transgenerational Fans & Long-Running Media Franchises. Edited by Bridget Kies & Megan Connor. The University of Iowa Press, 2022. 196-208.
"Exploring how fans use platforms: A platform studies approach to fan studies projects." In Fan Studies: Methods, Ethics, Research. Edited by Paul Booth & Rebecca Williams. University of Iowa Press, 2021. 239-254.
Co-authored with Lisa Swanstrom. "Dialectic of the Digital: William Gibson, Science Fiction, and the Evolution of the Digital Humanities.” In Periodizing the Future. Edited by Mitch Murray & Mathias Nilges. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 2021. 111-130.
"Creating Canons in Tabletop Roleplaying Games Played Online." In Transmedia Fandom and Tabletop Roleplaying Games. Edited by Jennifer Cover & Stephanie Hedge. McFarland, 2021. 113-125.
"Forging Posthuman Identity in Dominic Mitchell’s In The Flesh." In The Posthuman Gothic. Edited by Anya Heise-von der Lippe. University of Wales Press, 2017. 109–124.
“Gender & Canon: Creating Sherlock’s Postfeminist Femme Fatale.” In Gender & the Modern Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Film & Television Adaptations. Edited by Nadine Farghaly. McFarland, 2015. 66-84.
- "Sustainability in DH Graduate Studies" in Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities
- "Tolkien's Cities as Mythic Infrastructure" in Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth
- "Queering the Architext in Tolkien Fanfiction" in Queer Tolkien
- "From Fairy Story to Information-Age Epic in Jackson’s Hobbit Trilogy" in The Hobbit and Film
"Original Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat's Captive Prince." In New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century. Ed. Susan Fanetti. McFarland, 2022. 216-232.
Co-authored with Dawn Walls-Thumma. “Exploring the Longevity of Tolkien Fandom.” In Fandom The Next Generation: Transgenerational Fans & Long-Running Media Franchises. Edited by Bridget Kies & Megan Connor. The University of Iowa Press, 2022. 196-208.
"Exploring how fans use platforms: A platform studies approach to fan studies projects." In Fan Studies: Methods, Ethics, Research. Edited by Paul Booth & Rebecca Williams. University of Iowa Press, 2021. 239-254.
Co-authored with Lisa Swanstrom. "Dialectic of the Digital: William Gibson, Science Fiction, and the Evolution of the Digital Humanities.” In Periodizing the Future. Edited by Mitch Murray & Mathias Nilges. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 2021. 111-130.
"Creating Canons in Tabletop Roleplaying Games Played Online." In Transmedia Fandom and Tabletop Roleplaying Games. Edited by Jennifer Cover & Stephanie Hedge. McFarland, 2021. 113-125.
"Forging Posthuman Identity in Dominic Mitchell’s In The Flesh." In The Posthuman Gothic. Edited by Anya Heise-von der Lippe. University of Wales Press, 2017. 109–124.
“Gender & Canon: Creating Sherlock’s Postfeminist Femme Fatale.” In Gender & the Modern Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Film & Television Adaptations. Edited by Nadine Farghaly. McFarland, 2015. 66-84.
Other Publications
Co-authored with Billy Tringali. "Working With Fannish Intermediaries." Symposium essay in Transformative Works and Cultures 38 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2022.2227
"Fan-users and platform studies." Symposium essay in special issue "Fan Studies Methodologies," Transformative Works and Cultures 33 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1841
"Fan-users and platform studies." Symposium essay in special issue "Fan Studies Methodologies," Transformative Works and Cultures 33 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1841
Select Book Reviews
of Rukmini Pande's (ed.) Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices. In Ancillary Review of Books (2022). https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2022/04/27/considering-fandom-a-review-of-fandom-now-in-color/
of Joseph Brennan's (ed.) Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities. In Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 9.2 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00033_5
of Jaime Banks's (ed.) Avatar, Assembled: The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies. In The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds 12.3 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1386/jgvw_00022_5
of Jean Bessette’s Retroactivism in the lesbian archives: Composing pasts and futures. In Kairos 24:1 (2020). Wrote & coded: http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/24.2/reviews/alberto/index.html
of Ashley Hinck’s Politics for the Love of Fandom. In Transformative Works and Cultures 30 (2020). DOI.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1839
of Todd Harper et al.'s (eds.) Queerness in Play. In First Person Scholar (2019).
of Janet Brennan Croft & Leslie A. Donovan's (eds.) Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien. In Mallorn 56 (2015).
of Joseph Brennan's (ed.) Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities. In Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 9.2 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00033_5
of Jaime Banks's (ed.) Avatar, Assembled: The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies. In The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds 12.3 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1386/jgvw_00022_5
of Jean Bessette’s Retroactivism in the lesbian archives: Composing pasts and futures. In Kairos 24:1 (2020). Wrote & coded: http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/24.2/reviews/alberto/index.html
of Ashley Hinck’s Politics for the Love of Fandom. In Transformative Works and Cultures 30 (2020). DOI.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1839
of Todd Harper et al.'s (eds.) Queerness in Play. In First Person Scholar (2019).
of Janet Brennan Croft & Leslie A. Donovan's (eds.) Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien. In Mallorn 56 (2015).
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