*G* Re: character limit. Well, see, more evidence for my great magnum opus on how "fans" and "academics" (some of each, in some ways) are more alike than they are different. When I go see LOTR Fellowship 45 times in the theatres and run around and post at length about the loveliness of it, I am considered (by male colleagues in my department) to be a wacko fan. When I get a grant to do work on JRRT with teachers, I am more respectable academically speaking--but my medieval friend who loves Chaucer, who is never not reading Chaucer, who can talk and write about him at length--well, nobody gives her grief over Chaucer obsession (she and I tag-team people on this all the time)! The sociologists on my campus look at us English types with great suspiscion anyway, so they'd be willing to dismiss us totally ("you read BOOKS?????)!
*ahem* It will be a *very* controversial work with the subtext: "fandom/academia."
Very good clarification/definition--with regard to Jenkins (he's an academic, he's out, he does work on fandom, etc.) And yes, absolutely, he is currently an outsider (but I think the fact he's at MIT cannot hurt either--that is, he's a Big Name Academic).
The only other person I know in fandom via my flist who is in a similar position is cereta who is quite open about her real life name and fandom persona, the scholarship she's done, and I'm betting she'd be much more active in this kerfuffle except for some real life stuff that's going on at the moment.
I have a real life LJ which I started just before the fanlib hit the fan, but you're correct--I'm not "open" about it in the same way (although as many have pointed out, Jenkins does not write fanfic, does not have that to worry about--I write LOTR FPS, RPS, graphic stuff, including BDSM). I am mulling over the possibility of coming more out (many people on my flist know me in both persona, but I'm not publicly acknowleding it on either journal at the moment--I actually came out in an academic essay but coming out on the internet will be more widely read, I'm thinking!). I will not do it if the woman I live with does not wish me to (we both teach at the same place). We both have tenure, promotion, so I'm in a better position than I was in 2003, and these issues are very important to me (even before this recent bit). That's why I'm boring on at you at such length!
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Re: reposted to correct html: insider/outsider part 1
Date: 2007-05-27 11:13 pm (UTC)*ahem* It will be a *very* controversial work with the subtext: "fandom/academia."
Very good clarification/definition--with regard to Jenkins (he's an academic, he's out, he does work on fandom, etc.) And yes, absolutely, he is currently an outsider (but I think the fact he's at MIT cannot hurt either--that is, he's a Big Name Academic).
The only other person I know in fandom via my flist who is in a similar position is
I have a real life LJ which I started just before the fanlib hit the fan, but you're correct--I'm not "open" about it in the same way (although as many have pointed out, Jenkins does not write fanfic, does not have that to worry about--I write LOTR FPS, RPS, graphic stuff, including BDSM). I am mulling over the possibility of coming more out (many people on my flist know me in both persona, but I'm not publicly acknowleding it on either journal at the moment--I actually came out in an academic essay but coming out on the internet will be more widely read, I'm thinking!). I will not do it if the woman I live with does not wish me to (we both teach at the same place). We both have tenure, promotion, so I'm in a better position than I was in 2003, and these issues are very important to me (even before this recent bit). That's why I'm boring on at you at such length!