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Fandom’s Alchemy in the Classroom: Leaden Realities to Golden Possibilities

2019; Bowling Green State University; Issue: 35 Linguagem: Inglês

10.20415/rhiz/035.r04

1555-9998

Laurel Bassett,

Asian Culture and Media Studies

Fandom as Classroom Practice describes undergraduate projects where students explore a wide range of academic subjects from a fan culture perspective.Skirting the quicksand of apathy, fear and accidental lemming transformation, they launch from platforms (such as Tumblr) and praxis (such as emulative writing) to grab the gold coins of education: taking risks and building networks of collective intelligence.The courses cover a wide range of fan experiences including fan pilgrimage and fan practices of appropriation, collaborative work, scanlation, vidding, and race and gender bending.Fandom becomes a portkey to literature, the social sciences, economics, ESOL, foreign language acquisition, and theoretical approaches including feminism, deconstruction, queer studies, and critical race theory.While several of the authors self-identify as fans, they have left their Harry Potter robes in the closet; these are classes for the mainstream.