Anne Jamison

Dr. Anne Jamison is a professor of English at the University of Utah who focuses on young adult literature and fanfiction. She is best known for curating and editing Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World in 2012-2013 and moderating the associated panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2013, featuring Christina Lauren, Amber Benson, Rachel Caine, Heidi Tandy, and V. Arrow. She also taught an associated course on fanfiction at Princeton University in 2015 which featured many fics referenced in Fic. She is a frequent commentator on fannish and fanfiction-related mainstream news articles and is a very visible, public acafan.
==Fannish History==
Jamison has been involved with fandoms including Good Omens, Twilight, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, 50 Shades of Grey, Hannibal, Sherlock, and Sherlock Holmes.
She was interviewed on the podcast I Met You On LJ in December 2020: 015. Fanfiction Class with Dr. Anne Jamison.
==Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World==
==Fanfiction Panel at SDCC 2013==
==Fanfiction at Princeton University, Spring 2015==
Complete Syllabus
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Abridged Syllabus
 
*Introduction
**The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, eds (Iowa)
**Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World, Anne Jamison et al. (Smart Pop)
**Texts from Jane Eyre, Daniel Mallory Ortberg* (Henry Holt)
***Credited as Mallory Ortberg
**“My Immortal” by Tara Gilesbie
**“Fantastic Breasts and Where to Find Them” by Brenna Twohy
**“The Advantages of Fan Fiction as Art Form” by Jane Mortimer
**“Fanfiction Made Me a Better Feminist” by Anna Andersen
**“Luna, There’s a Sentient Race Inside Your Mane” podfic by boardgamebrony/recorded by mikethemicrophone 
**TV Tropes edition of Vladimir Propp’s “Morphology of the Folktale” (read the 31 functions)
**Suggested for fanfic newcomers
***From Fic: “Why Fic?” (pp. 17-40)
***Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson, from Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: Introduction and glossary
*History: Writing from Sources and the Birth of the Author
**The Knight of the Cart, Chrétien de Troyes
**“Bisclavret” (The Werewolf), The Lais of Marie de France
**Scotland: King Duncan and King Macbeth, MacDuffe, Holinshed’s Chronicles
**Macbeth, William Shakespeare
**The Statute of Anne (1710)—the first copyright law
**Shakespeare Illustrated: “Observations on the Use Shakespeare has made of the Foregoing History of Macbeth,” [Charlotte Lennox]]
**The Critique of Judgment (on Genius), Immanuel Kant
**The correspondence of Samuel Richardson and “Belfour” (Lady Bradshaigh) 
**“Tales of the Islanders“, Charlotte Bronte
**Rebecca and Rowena, William Makepeace Thackeray
**“The Two Imposters”, J. M. Barrie
**“On Dr. Watson’s Christian Name”, Dorothy L. Sayers
**“Champagne from a Slipper: When Fandom was Acceptably Male”, Veronica Horwell 
*History: Star Trek, Zines, and the Birth of Media Fandom
**Star Trek episodes: “Mirror Mirror”; “Amok Time”; “This Side of Paradise”) 
**“Textual Poachers”, Henry Jenkins
**“Future Men”, Constance Penley
**“Death of the Author”, Roland Barthes
**"A Tribute to Sherlock Holmes on the Occasion of his 100th Birthday", Dorothy L. Sayers
**Kraith, Jacqueline Lichtenberg
**Fic: pp. 73-105, incl. Andy Sawyer, “Tales of the Irish Fandom”; Jacqueline Lichtenberg, “Memories of a Collating Party”
**PinkElegance (Amaya Radjani)’s “Sexy Beast” (look to get an idea of the uses fan writers still make of the Mirror Verse)
**Spock/Uhura racefail
*History: Early Internet Fandom
**The X-Files episode: “José Chung’s From Outer Space”
**Fic: 112-130, incl. Bethan Jones, “The G-Woman and the Fowl One”
**“The Sin Eater”, Jane Mortimer
**“The Same Everywhere”
**“Sleep is Sweeter”, Anne Haynes
**“Ode to Paula Graves”, Madeleine Partous
**Buffy: The Vampire Slayer episode: “The Wish”
**“Morituri Te Salutamus”, Annakovsky
**“Who’s Been Shagging in My Bed”, mommanerd
**“Doyle Investigations”
**“Scully, Warrior Princess”, Joseph Anderson
**“The History of Xena Fan Fiction on the Internet”, Lunacy
** Fic: “Blurring the Lines", Amber Benson
**“The Sex Lives of Cult Television Characters”, Sara Gwenllian Jones
*ELEMENTARY, a Skype conversation with writers from the series
**"The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes”, Vincent Starrett
**“The Adventures of the Unique Hamlet”
**“Watson was a Woman”, Rex Stout
**“How the Mouth Changes its Shape”, breathedout
*HARRY POTTER, a conversation with fandom veterans
**Flourish Klink
**Aja Romano
**“Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”, Eliezer Yudkowsky
**Fic: Heidi Tandy
**Fic: “Percy Weasley’s University Thesis”, Chris Rankin
*The Changing Faces of Fanfiction Today
**“Friendship is Witchcraft”, Sherclop Pones
**Fic: “Hobbyhorsing", Peter Berg
**“The Magician and the Detective”, Bad Horse
**Characters as Animals—student choice—one Sherlock (example, manul!John; Fawnlock; Parrotlock; Waterfowllock); one the fandom of your choice.
**"Writing Bodies in Space: Media Fan Fiction as Theatrical Performance", Francesca Coppa
*Transcultural Fandom
**Dr. Lori Morimoto (acafanmom)
**“Pop Cosmopolitanism: Mapping Cultural Flows in an Age of Media Convergence”, Henry Jenkins 
**“Undoing Inter-National Fandom in the Age of Brand Nationalism”, Koichi Iwabuchi
**Mechademia 5
**“Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard", Laura Miller
**Fic: “From a Land Where ‘Other’ People Live,” Rukmini Pande and Samira Nadkarni
**Amaya Radjani
**“Quintessential”, thisprettywren
**“The Theory of Narrative Causality”, falling voices
**“The Progress of Sherlock Holmes” and “The Quiet Man”, Ivy Blossom
**Welcome To Night Vale: The Strex Family, Desert Bluffs Carlos
**The Paradox Series, Wordstrings
*The Empty Hearse and its Controversies
**Emily Nussbaum
**Elizabeth Minkel
**Laurie Penny
**Mid0nz meta
*“Where Do We Go From Here?”: Fans, Fanworks, and the Media, Publishing, and Entertainment Industries
**Emily Nussbaum
**Jamie Broadnax of Black Girl Nerds
**Elizabeth Minkel
**Heidi Tandy
**“And the (Fourth) Walls Came Tumbling Down”, Fandom at the Crossroads
**Fic: “The Epic Love Story of Supernatural and Fanfic”, Jules Wilkinson
**“Four Corners of the Western World”, pennypaperbrain
**“How to Write Realistic BDSM”
**“things you don’t tell me” series, etothepii
*Omegaverse
**Fic: “Pon Farr, MPreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse”, Kristina Busse
*How Twific Broke All the Rules and Eventually Itself
**Master of the Universe, Snowqueens Icedragon; Fifty Shades of Grey, E. L. James
**The Submissive, Tara Sue Me
**“The Office”, tby789/Beautiful Bastard, Christina Lauren
**“Midnight Desire”, Twilightzoner
**“Midnight Sun”, Stephenie Meyer
**Fic: “The Twilight Fandom,” 177-253
*Revisiting The Mary Sue
**Cyndy Aleo (Algonquinrt, d0tpark3r)
**Fic: “Becoming Bella Swan”, BellaFlan (Isabella Flanagan) & Randi Flanagan
**Fic: “On Writing—and Being—A Mary Sue”, Cyndy Aleo
**“Mr. Horrible”, d0tpark3r/Algonquinrt
**“Gynazole”, Mrs. TheKing/Fire Down Below, Debra Anastasia
*A Conversation with Lev Grossman
*RPF
**“After”, Anna Todd (Imaginator 1D)
**“Kim Kardashian Trapped in her Own Game”, kxfinity
**“May You Enjoy Your New Life”, aimmyarrowshigh
**Fic: “#BradamForever”, Brad Bell
**Fic: An Interview with Doug Wright 
**Fic: “Real Person(a) Fiction”, V. Arrow
*Conceptual Fanfiction
**“Chapter XXIV” (Missing Chapter of Tristram Shandy), Craig Dworkin
**Day, Kenneth Goldsmith
**Fic: “Conceptual Writing as Fanfic”, Darren Wershler
**“Economy”(A conceptual fanfiction of Darren Wershler’s essay), Kevin Power
**“Poems About Superheroes”, Stephen Burt
**“America”, Rae Armantrout
**Fic: Interview with Jonathan Lethem
*A Conversation with Doris Egan
**House episode: “House vs God” 
**“Mercy”, koimistress
*Regency Retellings
**Welcome to Sanditon (Pemberly Digital)
**Texts from Jane Eyre, Daniel Mallory Ortberg
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