Henry Jenkins

Henry Jenkins, a professor and acafan, is the author of the massively influential Textual Poachers, as well as many other books about media fandom. 
Jenkins, who self-identifies as a fan, is a frequent attendee at fan cons and has created fanworks of his own. 
He wrote a slash Scrooge/Marley story in the zine, Not What You Expect "Golden Idol" (22 pages), excerpted with his comments here , Blake's 7 meta for Shadow #5, was a member of the APA Strange Bedfellows, and wrote Letters of Comment to at least one Star Trek: TOS letterzine, Hellguard Social Register.
During Gaylaxicon 1992, Jenkins appeared on a panel with fellow acafan Camille Bacon-Smith, moderated by Shoshanna, to discuss, among other things, queer issues in fandom. Henry Jenkins and Camille Bacon-Smith at Gaylaxicon 1992 (Part One), [Part Two, TBA]
During Escapade 1993, Jenkins appeared on a panel with Constance Penley, Shoshanna, and Meg G called "Academia and our Culture." Transcript of Academia and Our Culture, Part 1, Part. 2, 6 February 1993 He is a regular Escapade attendee.
During the FanLib brouhaha, the CEO of fanlib.com, Chris Williams, chose Jenkin's blog Chris Williams Responds to Our Questions about FanLib 25th of May, 2007 (Accessed 8th of November, 2008) to respond to questions and criticisms about the site. The choice of Jenkins as a representative or authority figure of media fandom was criticised at the time bethbethbeth: Henry Jenkins and FanLib 22nd of May, 2007, (Accessed 8th of November, 2008)', and persuaded some fen of the need to create Organization for Transformative Works.
In the summer of 2007, Jenkins hosted an academic debate on "Gender and Fan Culture"When Fan Girls and Fan Boys Meet (Accessed 8th of November, 2008), which was mirrored on LJ at fandebate.
See Confessions of an Aca-Fan for Jenkin's current going's on.
See: My Secret Life as a Slasher (2006).
==Two Famous Fandom Quotes==
===Repairing the Damage... ===
Textual Poachers has a quote that fans often employed in discussion, and as a statement, on their websites, particularly in the late 1990s and early 2000s Zine Union and the deconstruction of pop culture: my fanfiction and Idylls of the Wizard and An Apocrypha of Muses and The Library: GreenWoman's Fanfiction and Iolausian Library .
===The Wall of Glass===
The "glass wall" and/or "wall of glass" is a Jenkins' touchpoint. From Normal Female Interest in Men Bonking:
==The Mainstream Press' Go-To Guy==
Jenkins was the person many journalists in the mid-1990s/early 2000s went to for quotes about fandom. 
In 1993, Jenkins commented on frustrations he had with how mainstream press and industry voices tended to go for the easy, the shrill, the simplistic quotes, interviews, and descriptions of fans and that topics were simplified and pushed through a very small, biased filter), and how he was optimistic that his work and that of UCSB film studies professor Constance Penley were, hopefully, broadening some horizons. At a panel in 1993 at the Escapade convention, Jenkins said: 
His cunning plan may have worked a little too well. A fan commented wryly about a Jenkins quote in an article: 
In 2002, another fan referred to the professor's ubiquitous presence as a quotable commentator: {{Quotation2OK, now the Aussies are getting in on the act. And they still manage to track down Henry Jenkins for a quote. The day man lands on Mars, the good Dr J will be there with a quote for the bemused Martians, no doubt! from DIAL #24 }}
In 2008, Jenkins commented about the mainstream attention he received after the publication of Textual Poachers, and noted the difference in reporters' attitudes sixteen years later: 
==Textual Poachers==
Perhaps Jenkins' best known book is 1992's Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Routledge 1992). It features chapters about fan activity including fanfic, fan art, vidding, and filk. 
Written prior to the digital revolution, it is somewhat outdated now in its focus on old-school slash fandom. Jenkins has also been criticized for assuming that most fans are straight white middle-class college-educated women, and his conclusions about their motivations from this characterisation.
Jenkins was adamant about preserving fan anonymity and permissions. In 1994, Gayle F wrote: 
For more, see Textual Poachers.
==One of the First Acafans==
While some fans enjoyed, or were neutral in their opinion, about Jenkins' attention of study, other fans were resentful and suspicious of him, and other newly-minted acafans. 
From a discussion in early 1993: 
Another fan said: 
Jenkins said this at a 1993 panel at Escapade:
==Notable Works==
* Textual poachers: Television fans and participatory culture. New York: Routledge. 1992.
* Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Star Trek and Doctor Who, with John Tulloch (1995)
* Foreword to Interacting with "Babylon 5": Fan performances in a media universe, by Kurt Lancaster. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2001.
* Digital Land Grab. Technology Review (March 2000)
* Why Heather can write. Technology Review (February 6, 2004).
* Convergence culture. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2006
* Fans, bloggers, and gamers. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2006
* How to Watch a Fan-Vid. September 18, 2006
* Normal Female Interest in Men Bonking, edited and introduced with Shoshanna and Cynthia Jenkins.
==Interviews==
* Intensities interviews Henry Jenkins @ Console-ing Passions (2001)
* Slashcast Insider Interview with Dr. Henry Jenkins (2006)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Henry and Cynthia Jenkins (2012)
* OTW Guest Post: Henry Jenkins (2017)
==A Sample of Meta and Press That Quotes or Mentions Jenkins==
* Cold Fish and Stale Chips #13 (1993)
* Dream On (1993)
* Bringing Home the Bacon (1995)
* The Generic Slash Defense Letter (1995)
* Pass the Crisco, Spock (1995/1996)
* In Dull TV Days, Favorites Take Wing Online (1997)
* Fans take control of TV...On-Line (around 1998?)
* If Fans Wrote the X-Files ... (1998)
* Minding One's P's and Q's (1998)
* Copy Catfight (2000)
* Hey Spock, Lookin' Good ... (2000)
* Luke Skywalker Is Gay? (2000)
* The E-Files (2001)
* The plot thickens in fan fiction (2003)
* Devotees post their own twists, turns of favorite series (2002)
* The strange world of fan fiction (2002)
* What to Do About Harry Potter Porn (2002)
* Essential Multimedia: Go on, make 'em do it (2002)
* When Hamlet met the A-Team (2002)
* For the love of... (2002)
* Taking Liberties With Harry Potter (2003)
* Harry Potter and the Curse of Disability (2004)
* What the fic? Plots thicken as fan-written stories proliferate on the Internet (2006)
==References==
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