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academia, meet fandom
Found this email when I got home tonight from seeing Moon:
"Dear Kristin,
Thank you for your submission to Transformative Works and Cultures. We are
pleased to accept your article for publication in the Spring 2010 TWC
special issue on Supernatural. Your paper is an interesting exploration of the family dynamics of SPN within a context of fan ( Read more... ) -
realms of fantasy lives again!
This is the short review that I promised to write of the August 2009 issue of Realms of Fantasy, the first issue after the magazine's resurrection from potential demise. There is apparently some controversy going on about the cover art, but I will merely note here that it's not at all sexualized, except in the sense that she's an obviously ( Read more... ) -
teenage wizards and guest lectures
The Alumni Association Harry Potter event last night went quite well, I thought. I talked for a while about the role of fantasy in our society and the draw of Harry Potter, people asked questions, and we talked right up until they came to escort us into the theater for the showing of the new film. Only minor gripe about the lecture part was the ( Read more... ) -
summer in Riverside is my least favorite season
Submission #2 for the essay collection--this one on Lloyd Alexander. I am ridiculously happy to see this one, because I adored his books as a child (and still have them on the bookshelf downstairs, actually...).
And for the big news...
my essay on the Sci-Fi (I refuse to use SyFy) mini-series Tin Man, about The Wizard of Oz and heroism and ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Hooray!
Got our first submission for the Welsh Mythology essay collection today--it's on Torchwood and Celtic myth. Looks good so far; looking forward to getting more ( Read more... ) -
I am a crazy person.
Because I was not content to have three weeks of relative vacation, I have instead said that I will give a talk on Harry Potter and contemporary fantasy for various UCR alumni, faculty, and guests on July 17th, as part of an Alumni Center event, followed by viewing the new movie ( Read more... ) -
one of the best things to hear
one of my students wrote this at the end of his final essay ( Read more... ) -
updates. fandom. life.
Haven't updated in a while. Let's see ( Read more... ) -
darn...
Curses. Missed the deadline for Sword & Sorceress 24. Story not behaving, plus lots of school-related distractions. I guess there's always next year's...annoying though. -
belated Eaton SF conference comments
I just realized I never posted anything about this year's Eaton Conference. So, here it is ( Read more... )