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  • Sports Fandoms

    Vol. 45 (2025)

    Guest edited by Jason Kido Lopez and Lori Kido Lopez

  • Fandom and Platforms

    Vol. 42 (2024)

    Guest edited by Maria K. Alberto, Effie Sapuridis, Lesley Willard

  • Chinese Fandoms

    Vol. 41 (2023)

    Guest edited by Zhen Troy Chen and Celia Lam

  • Trans Fandom

    Vol. 39 (2023)

    Guest edited by Jennifer Duggan and Angie Fazekas

  • Fandom Histories

    Vol. 37 (2022)

    Guest edited by Philipp Dominik Keidl and Abby S. Waysdorf

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    Tumblr and Fandom

    Vol. 27 (2018)

    Edited by Lori Morimoto and Louisa Ellen Stein. Cover image by Hannah Craig (2014).

  • Vol. 21 (2016)

    "The Classical Canon and/as Transformative Work," edited by Ika Willis (University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia)

  • Vol. 19 (2015)

    "European Fans and European Fan Objects: Localization and Translation," guest edited by Anne Kustritz (University of Amsterdam)

  • Vol. 18 (2015)

    "Performance and Performativity in Fandom," guest edited by Lucy Bennett (Cardiff University) and Paul J. Booth (DePaul University)

  • Vol. 16 (2014)

    "Materiality and Object-Oriented Fandom," guest edited by Bob Rehak, Swarthmore College

  • Vol. 15 (2014)

    Fandom and/as labor, guest edited by Mel Stanfill and Megan Condis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Vol. 13 (2013)

    "Appropriating, Interpreting, and Transforming Comic Books," edited by Matthew J. Costello, Saint Xavier University, Chicago

  • Vol. 12 (2013)

    "Transnational Boys' Love Fan Studies," edited by Kazumi Nagaike and Katsuhiko Suganuma, Oita University, Oita, Japan

  • Vol. 10 (2012)

    Transformative Works and Fan Activism, edited by Henry Jenkins and Sangita Shresthova, University of Southern California

  • Vol. 9 (2012)

    "Fan/Remix Video," special issue of TWC guest edited by Francesca Coppa, Muhlenberg College, and Julie Levin Russo, Brown University

  • Vol. 8 (2011)

    Double guest-edited issue: Race and Ethnicity in Fandom, edited by Robin Anne Reid and Sarah N. Gatson; and Textual Echoes, edited by Cyber Echoes

  • Vol. 6 (2011)

    "Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," special history issue of TWC guest edited by Nancy Reagin, Pace University, and Anne Rubenstein, York University

  • Vol. 4 (2010)

    "Saving People, Hunting Things," special Supernatural issue of TWC guest edited by Catherine Tosenberger, University of Winnipeg

  • Vol. 2 (2009)

    "Games as transformative works," special games issue of TWC guest edited by Rebecca Carlson, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania