Post: “You can go totally wild in making him be whatever you want”: Anna Wilson on affect (opens in new tab)

Continuing my desire to shout out literary scholars, I give you Anna Wilson’s 2016 TWC essay, “The role of affect in fan fiction.”   The essay is about the openness of love and other strong emotions about characters and texts in fandom – a strong contrast to academia, where experts often strive to be (or at least appear) unbiased, objective, and dispassionate.  Wilson quotes from a number of Yuletide asks that show great enthusiasm for characters and texts from classical history: