Louisa Stein

Louisa Stein is a fan studies academic and a professor in the Department of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College. She has written several key essays on remix and fan culture and teaches various courses on fandom.
==Selected Bibliography of Fandom-Related Work==
===Books===
*Millennial/Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015.
* Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom. Co-edited with Kristina Busse. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012.
* Teen Television: Programming and Fandom. Co-edited with Sharon Marie Ross. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. TWC review
===Articles===
* “Gossip Girl: Transmedia Technologies,” in eds. Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell. How to Watch Television. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
* “#Bowdown to Your New God: Misha Collins and Decentered Authorship in the Digital Age,” in eds. Jonathan Gray and Derek Johnson. Companion to Media Authorship. Malden: Blackwell-Wiley, 2013.
* “Teaching Textual Poachers,” in Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers 20th Anniversary Reissue. Routledge, 2012.
* “‘Word of Mouth on Steroids’: Interpellating the Millennial as Media Fan” in Eds. Michael Kackman et. al. Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence. New York: Routledge, 2010. 128-143.
* “What you don't know": Supernatural fan vids and millennial theology.” Symposium essay. Transformative Works and Cultures Volume 4 (2010). http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/192/158
* Limit Play: Fan Authorship between Source Text, Intertext, and Context. Co-written with Kristina Busse. Popular Communication 7.4 (2009). 192-207.
* “Playing Dress Up: Digital Fashion and Gamic Extensions of Televisual Experience in Gossip Girl’s Second Life.” In Focus essay. Cinema Journal 48.3 (2009).
* “‘Emotions-Only’ versus ‘Special People’: Genre in fan discourse.” Transformative Works and Cultures Volume 1 (2008). http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/43/65
* “‘This Dratted Thing’: Fannish Storytelling through New Media” in Eds. Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson. Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006. 245-260.
* “‘They Cavort, You Decide’: Transgenericism, Queerness, and Fan Interpretation in Teen TV.” Spectator 25.2 (Spring 2005). 11-22.
* “Off topic: Oh my God U.S. Terrorism! Roswell fans respond to 11 September.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 5.4 (2002): 471-491.
===Other Writing===
* “Embracing Fan Creativity in Transmedia Storytelling” Antenna (2013) 
* “Inspiring Fans at LeakyCon Portland” Antenna (2013) 
* “Fans and Stars and Starkids” Antenna (2013) 
* “‘Fell in Love with a Song’: Squaresville and the Intimate Collective” Antenna (2013)
* “A Glee Vid in Memory of Alex Doty” Antenna (2012) 
* “Millennial Girls and Digital Power” In Media Res (2012) 
* “On (Not) Hosting the Session That Killed the Term Acafan” Antenna (2011). 
* “Millennial Address and Narrative Synthesis: Another Look at Pretty Little Liars” Antenna (2011). 
* From Veronica Mars to Pretty Little Liars” Antenna (2011). 
* “Mad Men vs Sherlock: What Makes a Fandom?” Antenna (2010). 
* “We Want You: Transmedia Performances of Fan Devotion, Desire, and Domination” In Media Res 
* “Damages: A Tale of Two Women” Antenna (2010). 
* “It’s Contagious: Twitter and the Palimpsest of Authorship” Flow 9.14 Special Issue: Social Media (2009). 
* “Bricks: A Supernatural Vid by Luminosity” In Media Res 
* the-gossip-girl-fan/ “Convergence Fashion: Hailing the Gossip Girl Fan” In Media Res (2007)
* “Gender and Fan Debates: Machinima Vs. Media Fan Authorship” dialog with Robert Jones, part of series hosted by Henry Jenkins 
* “Taste Matters” Flow Special Conference Issue (2006). 
===Talks and Presentations===
* “’It is a Truth Universally Acknowledged,’ Lizzie Bennet, Vlogger” Media in Transition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013.
* “Single/Taken/In an Abusive Relationship With Ryan Murphy’s Writing”: Love, Hate, and Ambivalence in Fandom.” Participant in roundtable, “Antifandom in the Digital Age.” Flow Conference, Austin, Texas, 2012.
* “@mishacollins: Twitter and Fan/Celebrity Authorship.” Media in Transition, 2011.
* “Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies.” Workshop convener and chair. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. New Orleans, 2011.
* “Rethinking the Audience/Producer Relationship.” Roundtable convener and presenter. Flow Conference. University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
* “The Mad Women Go Online: the Mad Men Twitter Network.” Console-ing Passions. University of Oregon at Eugene, 2010.
* “Participatory Cultures: From Wikipedia to Vidding.” Chair and participant. Diversifying Participation: Digital Media and Learning Conference. La Jolla, CA, 2010.
* “Sons and Brothers: Sexuality and Race in Supernatural Fan Videos.” Console-ing Passions. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008.
* “Videogames, Fan Creativity, and Gendered Authorship: Complicating Dichotomies.” Console-ing Passions. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008.
* “Hailing the Fan: Diegetic and Extradiegetic Expansion in Official Online Interfaces.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Philadelphia, 2008.
* “Say it with Sims: Fan Creativity and New Media.” Console-ing Passions. University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, 2006.
* “Vanished vs. Kidnapped: Discourses of Taste and Evaluation in Online Fan Communities.” Flow Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
* “‘Update’: Seriality in Online Media-Based Role Playing Games.” Media in Transition. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.
* “‘In Real Time:’ Role Playing Games and the Inflection of Fantasy in the Everyday.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, 2005.
* “‘They Cavort, You Decide’: Fan Discourse on Intentionality and Queerness in Teen TV.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Atlanta, 2004.
* “TV Noir 101: Genre as Discourse in the WB’s Angel.” Media in Transition, 2003.
* “It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Rip-Off?! Smallville and Generic Evolution.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Minneapolis, 2003.
* “Roswell and the Art of Lip Gloss: Fan Discourse of Fashion and Style on the WB.” Consoleing Passions. University of Bristol, 2001.
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