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Affect in Fandom Fan Creators and Productivity
Biography
Dominika Ciesielska (PhD) is affiliated to the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). Her academic interests lie within fan culture, and her research focuses on fanfiction and fannish affect. She is the author of papers on queering fanfiction, fan writing as a myth-making practice, and the retelling of space. Nicolle Lamerichs (PhD) is a senior lecturer at creative business at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Netherlands). Lamerichs holds a PhD in media studies from Maastricht University (2014). In her book Productive Fandom (2018), she explores intermediality, affect, and creativity in fan cultures. She has published on fandom, media culture, and cosplay Agata Zarzycka (PhD) is an assistant professor at the University of Wroc.aw (Poland). Her interests include game studies, biopolitics, and identity. She has published two monographs: Socialized Fiction: Role-playing Games as a Multidimensional Space of Interaction between Literary Theory and Practice (2009) and A Goth Reflection: Self-fashioning and Popular Culture (2019).
