This episode features a Fan Studies Roundtable: what can Fan Studies tell us about our current political and cultural moment, and what is the state of Fan Studies within the discipline today? Then we bring you interviews with two more SCMS 2020 award winners, Rachel Webb Jekanowski (Best Dissertation) and Pansy Duncan (the Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award). Finally, Chris and Michael banter about what they are watching, while Michael denies being a cat and/or French.

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Opening Banter

“I am not a cat”
“The Cat Lawyer has been Milkshake Ducked”
SCMS 2021 Conference Schedule

Fan Studies Roundtable

“The Creator of ‘The Punisher’ Wants to Reclaim the Iconic Skull From Police and Fringe Admirers Forbes (2020)
How the Left Won the War For Gritty The New Yorker (2018)
Pepe the Frog: yes a harmless cartoon can become an alt-right mascot The Guardian (2016)
Whitney Phillips tweet about trolling
A theater of propaganda: The Capitol, cameras and selfies The AP (2021)
TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally The New York Times (2021)
Paul Booth quoted in the article “How Pop Music Fandom Became Sports, Politics, Religion and and All-Out War.”The New York Times (2020)
Matt Hills - Fan Cultures (2002)
Jacinta Yanders’ (2018) article on Wynonna Earp Fandom: Interactions, Emotions, and Earpers: “Wynonna Earp,” the best fandom ever