Fans and Fanfic Studies and Research Group
Members
Ana Júlia Oliveira de Abreu Soares Macêdo
Bachelor's Degree in Language and Literature
Portuguese Language
Federal University of Piauí - UFPI
Research topics: Fanfiction as a textual genre, fandom as a discursive community Currently studying fanfiction as a textual genre from a socio-communicative and functional perspective, pointing to the medium as one of the main characteristic elements of this genre, given that fanfiction is currently a genre that circulates mainly in digital form. When dealing with the medium of fanfiction, she considers cases in which this medium is created by the fans themselves, also investigating a possible classification of fandom according to the concept of discursive community. She is a member of the center's Fan and Fanfiction Study Group and one of the authors of the Fanfiction Terminology Dictionary (an ongoing project), responsible for writing the entry on social media/text/chat fic.
PhD student in Communication
PUC-Rio
Research topics: fan production; labor exploitation; cultural industry A doctoral candidate in Cultural Production at PUC-Rio, she is conducting research that investigates the ambiguous role of fan production in maintaining—and simultaneously subverting—the hegemonic cultural industry. Using fan fiction as its central object, the study moves between the fields of education and communication, analyzing how these collaborative narratives can both reproduce and question structures of power, consumption, and representation. The work seeks to understand the critical and formative potential of fan practices in the context of digital cultures. Creator of Fanfiction na Escola, a permanent project of the Center.
Eva Letícia da Cruz Pereira
Bachelor's Degree in Languages
Portuguese and English
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ
Research topics: Fan fiction, feminism, erotic literature
Ana Júlia Oliveira de Abreu Soares Macêdo
Bachelor's Degree in Languages/Spanish/Literature
Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRRJ
Research topics: Fanfiction; Digital Games; Different Forms of Representation Investigates how digital games can be used to teach language skills to adolescents and how Sapphic and Achillean representations differ in Brazilian fanfiction. Develops projects focused on fanfiction and identity issues, aimed at public schools in the Baixada Fluminense region.
Joana Perci Benigno
Bachelor's Degree in Social Communication - Cinema and Advertising
Research topics: Archive preservation
Bachelor of Arts in English from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Master's degree in English Language Literature from the Graduate Program in English: Linguistic and Literary Studies at UFSC; PhD candidate at PPGI/UFSC in the same field of research
Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC
Research topics: Potential and limitations of slash fanfiction as a queer project; critique of the representation of slash in academic production in the field of fan studies; mutuality between fans and their objects; Aims to explain the influences of Foucault and Derrida's post-structuralism in the field of fan studies; own doctoral research: return to Adorno's critique of the culture industry, rarefaction of spontaneity, and reification of fan desire.
Ana Júlia Oliveira de Abreu Soares Macêdo
Librarian; Specialist in school library and reading room management; Student in the Creative Writing technology course
Leonardo Da Vinci University Center - UNIASSELVI
Research topics: Fanfiction as a tool to encourage reading; The use of Fandom in libraries; Reading mediation through fanfiction I give lectures and workshops for the general public, presenting what fanfiction is and its historical, cultural, artistic, and reading incentive context, demystifying any preconceptions that may exist regarding the practice and listing its benefits for its participants.
Bachelor's degree in Social Communication, degree in English Language and Literature, Master's degree and PhD candidate in English Language Literature
Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG
Research topics: fan fiction; feminism; William Shakespeare Reconfigurations of the dynamics between Desdemona X Othello and Desdemona X Emilia in Othello fanfics. The focus is, first, on reconfiguring the heroine's space in fanfics based on the logic of agency. Second, the focus is on maintaining or dismantling the play's logic of homosociality and its relationship to the character's survival/death.
Psychology undergraduate student
Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ)
Research topics: Fanfiction as self-narrative; Literature and Subjectivity.
Ana Júlia Oliveira de Abreu Soares Macêdo
Bachelor's degree in Portuguese, English, and their literatures; Master's candidate in Language Studies
PUC-Rio
Research topics: Fanfiction; Queer Theory; Discourse Analysis
Sara Mendonça Poubel de Oliveira
Librarian-Documentalist, Master's degree and PhD candidate in Information Science
Fluminense Federal University - UFF
Research topics: collecting; information practices Studies the relationship between fans and their collections from the perspective of information practices, seeking to understand the parasocial relationship between the agents.
Master's student in Literary Studies
Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)
Research topics: Fanfiction and Queer Reading; Fandom and Reception; Fanfiction and Women's Writing She is currently conducting a case study of a fanfiction of The Great Gatsby, relating the genre to the concept of queer female and reparative writing; she participates in the fanfiction study group and gives lectures on fanfiction, gender, and sexuality. She also researches the reception of male villains in fandom.
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