invited talks

Sexual Justice in Fan Fiction: Reckoning with the Politics of Fantasy. With Alexis Lothian. Keynote Speaker. Fandom After #MeToo. June 30-July 31, 2022 at The University of Chicago, College Center in Paris, France. (Google Slides)

Spoiler Warnings: Negotiating Originality, Genre Expectation, and the Enjoyments of Repetition.” Keynote Speaker. #spoiltheconference. March 17-19, 2022 at University of Zürich, Switzerland. (Google Slides)

Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing. Invited Speaker. History and Theory of New Media. Lecture series. March 12, 2020 at University of California, Berkeley, CA. (Prezi)

Fan Works as Reader Response Theory. Invited Speaker. Dimensionen des Lesens. November 6-8, 2019 in Hannover, Germany.

Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing. Invited Speaker. History and Theory of New Media lecture series. October 9, 2019 at Berkeley, CA.

Keynote Speaker, Kino Club 313 Conference. February 17-18, 2017 at Wayne State University, MI.
. . . * Teaching Vidding: Selecting and Contextualizing Against Diverse Media Experiences. (Prezi) [Dropbox]
. . . * Framing Fan Fiction: Archival Infrastructures as Consent Negotiations. (Prezi)

Fan Fiction Tropes as Literary and Cultural Practices. Invited Speaker. (Prezi) #Lesen. Transformationen traditioneller Rezeptionskonzepte im digitalen Zeitalter. September 29-October 1, 2016 in Göttingen, Germany.

Of Mice and Mutants: Competitive Memories and Minority Identity in Holocaust Comics. Invited Speaker. (Prezi) Holocaust in Memory and History. September 7, 2016 in Mobile, AL.

LGBT Online Fan Identities and Queer Fan Creativity. Invited Speaker. (Prezi) LGBTQ Lecture Series at USA Archeology Museum. March 10, 2016 in Mobile, AL.

#violent amoral unicorn of justice gets knocked up: Syntax and Semantics of Tags as Genre Markers.”(Prezi) Keynote Speaker. MASH 2013: Making and Sharing. July 4-5, 2013 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Fifty Shades of Fandom: Repetition and Originality in Transformative Fanworks. (Prezi) Keynote Speaker. Borders and Beyond: Considering Communities. October 11-13, 2012 in Gainesville, FL.

Affect and the Individual Fan. Keynote Speaker. Cyber Echoes: Fan Fiction and Sexualities. February 11-13, 2010 in Umea, Sweden.

Guest Speaker WriterCon: Between the Lines. July 31 – August 2, 2009 in Minneapolis, MN.
* The Role of Genre and Tropes in Writer Creativity and Reader Engagement.
* Genderswap and Feminism.
* The Organization for Transformative Works: I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers.





Kristina Busse