essays

articles

Remixing the Remix: Ownership and Appropriation within Fan Communities. Co-written with Shannon Farley. M/C Journal 16.4 (August 2013).

Geek Hierarchies, Boundary Policing, and the Gendering of the Good Fan. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies 10.1 (May 2013).

Limit Play: Fan Authorship between Source Text, Intertext, and Context. Co-written with Louisa Ellen Stein. Popular Communication 7.4 (2009). 192–207.

“Yearning Void and Infinite Potential: Online Slash Fandom as Queer Female Space.” Co-written with Alexis Lothian and Robin Anne Reid. ELN 45.2 (Fall/Winter 2007). 103–111.

Канон, контекст и консенсус: новое прочтение фанфикшена. (Canon, Context, and Consensus: An Approach to Reading Fan Fiction) Trans. Ksenia Prassolova. Baltic Journal of Philology 6 (2007): 345–360.

“Reflecting the Subject: The ‘Return of the Repressed’ in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.” Woolf Studies Annual 7 (2001): 75–101.

book chapters

Canon-compliance and Creative Analysis in Vorkosigan Saga Fan Fiction. Biology and Manners: The Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold. Ed. Una McCormack and Regina Yung Lee. Liverpool University Press, 2020.

“Afterword: Fannish Affect and Its Aftermath.” Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings and Resurrections in Fandom. Ed. Rebecca Williams. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018. 209–18.

The Ethics of Studying Online Fandoms. The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. Ed. Melissa A. Click and Suzanne Scott. New York: Routledge, 2017. 9–17.

A History of Slash Sexualities: Debating Queer Sex, Gay Politics, and Media Fan Cultures. Co-written with Alexis Lothian. Routledge Companion to Media, Sex, and Sexuality. Ed. Feona Attwood, R.Danielle Egan, Brian McNair, and Clarissa Smith. London: Routledge, 2017. 117–29.

Fan Fiction Tropes as Literary and Cultural Practices. Lesen X.0: Rezeptionsprozesse in der digitalen Gegenwart, Reihe digilit. Literatur und Literaturvermittlung im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung. Ed. Sebastian Böck, Julian Ingelmann, Kai Matuszkiewicz, Friederike Schruhl. Göttingen, Germany: V&R unipress, 2017. 127–43.

Intertextuality, Performativity, and Intimacy in Fan Fiction Communities. Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. Revised second edition. Ed. Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss and C. Lee Harrington. New York: NYU Press, 2017. 45-59.

Beyond Mary Sue: Fan Representation in Fiction and the Complex Negotiation of Gendered Identity. Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture. Ed. Paul Booth and Lucy Bennett. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. 159–68.

Media Fan Studies: Eine Bestandsaufnahme. Trans. Vera Cuntz-Leng. Creative Crowds: Perspektiven der Fanforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum. Ed. Vera Cuntz-Leng. Darmstadt: Büchner Verlag, 2014. 17–34.

The Return of the Author: Ethos and Identity Politics. Companion to Media Authorship. Ed. Jonathan Gray and Derek Johnson. Oxford: Blackwell, 2013. 48–68.

Identity, Ethics, and Fan Privacy. Co-written with Karen Hellekson. Fan Culture: Theory/Practice. Ed. Katherine Larsen and Lynn Zubernis. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 38–56.

Fan Cultures and Fan Communities. Co-written with Jonathan Gray. Handbook of Media Audiences. Ed. Virginia Nightingale. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011. 425–43.

Bending Gender: Feminist and (Trans)Gender Discourses in the Changing Bodies of Slash Fanfiction. Co-written with Alexis Lothian. Internet Fiction(s). Ed. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Anton Kirchhofer, and Sirpa Leppänen. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 105–27.

My Life is a WIP on My LJ: Slashing the Slasher and the Reality of Celebrity and Internet Performances. Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. Ed. Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006. 207–24.

‘I’m Jealous of the Fake Me’: Postmodern Subjectivity and Identity Construction in Boy Band Fan Fiction. Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture. Ed. Su Holmes and Sean Redmond. London: Routledge, 2006. 253-67.

‘Digital Get Down’: Postmodern Boy Band Slash and the Queer Female Space. eros.usa: Essays on the Culture and Literature of Desire. Ed. Cheryl Malcolm and Jopi Nyman. Gdansk: Gdansk UP, 2005. 104–25.

“Crossing the Final Taboo: Family, Sexuality, and Incest in the Buffyverse.” Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Ed. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 207–17.





Kristina Busse