Fanfiction as Performative Criticism: Harry Potter Racebending (opens in new tab)

Kristina Busse and I are planning a book called Reading Fanfiction/Fanfiction Readings, which will be a collection of close readings of fanfiction stories. The goal is to treat the stories as literary works with their own preoccupations quite apart from the source text’s meanings and pre-occupations; our collection will ask the question, “What is the fanfiction writer using the fandom to think about?”