Maria Alberto
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  • My Dissertation
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  • About
  • My Work
  • My Dissertation
  • Publications
  • Talks
  • Teaching
  • Other Neat Things
Maria Alberto

Upcoming 


tbd

RECENT


"The Letters of Tolkien as Epistolary Appendage"
September 2022, The Epistolary Network (TERN) conference, virtual 

(with Adrianna Burton)
"The Critical Role Foundation & TRPG Giving"
July 2022, Gen Analog, virtual

"Fan(dom) Insights from the Survey of Anime Convention Attendance In Response to COVID-19"
April 2022, Popular Culture Association (PCA), virtual

"How Do We Want To Do This? Launching #CritRoleBib" 
February 2022, DHU6, Provo, UT
 
 ​Roundtable talk on canon(s)
January 2022, Modern Language Association/MLA, virtual

"Tolkien's Cities of the First Age as Mythic Infrastructure" 
August 2021, Mythcon 51, virtual

"Mathom Economies? Fan Gift Culture and A Tolkien Fic Exchange Event"
June 2021, Popular Culture Association (PCA), virtual conference

​"Platform Studies and Fandom Histories" 
March 2021, Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS), virtual conference

 "'Dead Dove Do Not Eat' Fanfiction and The Writer-Reader Contract of Shock Literature"
February 2021, Southwest Popular Culture Association (SWPACA), virtual conference 

"'Telling' Trauma in English-language fanfiction for the Yi City arc (The Untamed)"
October 2020, Fan Studies Network-North America (FSN-NA), virtual conference

"Good Omens (2019) and Adaptation as Ergodic Enterprise"
February 2020, Southwest Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM
 
"Creating Canons in D&D: A Conversation with Fan Studies Terminology"
October 2019, FSNNA, Chicago, IL

"Fan Interpellation and Blockbuster Films"
October 2018, FSNNA, Chicago, IL
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