@mariakalberto
📚 pop culture, #fanstudies, analog game studies, Tolkien | she/her 🏳️🌈 | PhD English '24, University of Utah (diss on D&D, canon, & drow) | Assistant Professor of English at Richland Community College | header by galxrax (Unsplash)
so excited that @persephone.blue @mariakalberto.bsky.social @hibbythach.com, Brandon Blackburn, & my chapter on Thirsty Sword Lesbians ⚔️👩❤️💋👩 appears in this kickass collection!
The DePaul Pop Culture Conference theme this year is Remixing Pop Music, to be held at DePaul in Chicago on May 2. If you're interested in the theme, you can submit an idea for a presentation here (by Jan. 31): popcultureconference.com/2026-remix-p...
Proud to be the 221st backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Designers & Dragons: Origins! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
🚨🚨LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR OUR #FSNNA2025 #FanStudies CONFERENCE!!!🚨🚨
Registration closes TOMORROW (Oct 21) at 11:59pm ET‼️
You can find the registration & conference info on our REVAMPED WEBSITE at fsn-northamerica.org#Conference
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⚔️ NOW LIVE! ⚔️ Designers & Dragons: Origins!
Award-winning historian @shannonappelcline.bsky.social delves deep into the origins and design of every product TSR published for OD&D, Basic D&D, and AD&D 1E.
Pledge now and gain access to The Adventurers' Hoard
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I just backed DROW BORG on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/adv...
#TWC42, published last year, is a special issue focused on Fandom and Platforms! Guest edited by @mariakalberto.bsky.social, @effietheant.bsky.social, & @lesleyawillard.bsky.social, this issue emphasizes putting forward platforms in fan studies! Read it here:
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Submissions for the FSNNA 2025 #fanstudies conference are now open! Our theme this year is Reputation: Influence, Power, & Capital.
🤔Pick from: poster OR poster + talk
✍️Due: Abstract, bio, keywords
⏰Deadline: Friday, May 16
Full CFP & form here: fsn-northamerica.org/2025/04/11/g...
@purplekimchi.bsky.social and I are editing a handbook on Feminist Digital Studies/Scholarship/Humanities! If you're a feminist technologist, scholar, activist, etc., regardless of where you work or where you are in your career, we want to hear from you! CFP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
DAY 1 of "Role-Playing the Humanities" in the Taft Research Center is upon us!
We'll be discussing (starting at 9 am):
--Student Engagement with Role-Play
--Worldbuilding and Worldmaking
--RPG Studies: The State of the Field
And at 7 pm: Play sessions!
taft.center/3Xj9OIR
@mariakalberto.bsky.social and my Dossier on “Actual Play as Actual Art” is in the latest issue of @jcmsjournal.bsky.social. So thrilled to spotlight careful readings of @dimension20.bsky.social @criticalrole.bsky.social & New York By Night by stellar scholars.
quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/issues/
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We're delighted to announce that FSNNA is looking for new committee members!
Check out the full call & application process on the website here: fsn-northamerica.org/2025/01/17/c...
Thank you very much, Katie!! 🤩
thank you, Luisa!!
screenshot of the title page of my dissertation!
Delighted to report that my dissertation is now available open-access on ProQuest!
In it, I propose a definition of "canon" as used in and by contemporary transmedia franchises: exemplified by D&D and decades of texts about drow.
www.proquest.com/dissertation...
(dm if you'd like a PDF!)
was visited by 3 ghosts last night so I’m helping them unionize
Absolutely wild (and humbling!) to see my name come up in the latest of your very helpful roundups of recent fan studies work! Thank you very much!
New from
@mariakalberto.bsky.social & @pbooth81.bsky.social in Convergence
‘So much for the prattling of sages’: D&D gaming paratexts, Fan(nish) distribution of knowledge, and Drow
#FanStudies
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
Screenshot of Spotify Wrapped showing I listened to 93,228 minutes of music in 2024
Screenshot of Spotify Wrapped showing top five artists and songs
...it's been A Rough Year 😅
cover for Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities (Hankins, Lang, Appleford, 2024)
Thread on contributors and contributions to Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities (which doesn't argue that all such futures are "digital"): this book is an examination of the plans, institutions, successes, and failures of DH graduate training, broadly understood. (1/14)
Today's the day!!
Entering the Multiverse release day.
In another universe, this happened last week. And in another, it's tomorrow.
Thankfully, you're in this one and you can pick up your copy now!
www.routledge.com/Entering-the...
The cover of the book "The construction of race in Les Miserables fanworks". The cover features a simply coloured sketch of a man wearing a headscarf and thick moustache with a rifle.
My book about race in fandom came out yesterday! If you like Les Mis, thoughts about racebent headcanons and analysis of Tumblr AUs, please tell your library to order a copy!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/construct...
In #TWC42's editorial, "Putting forward platforms in fan studies," editors @mariakalberto.bsky.social, @effietheant.bsky.social & @lesleyawillard.bsky.social focus on platforms as foundations and the importance of a collective understanding of and attention to them. Read more here: bit.ly/43qSinR
Hot off the presses! #TWC42, a special issue guest edited by @mariakalberto.bsky.social, @effietheant.bsky.social, & @lesleyawillard.bsky.social is officially live! Dig in here: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw... #TWC #OTW
Very excited to share a new CFP for a Routledge Companion to Fan Video and Digital Authorship! Please spread the word, consider submitting, and don't hesitate to email me and/or my co-editor Sam Close with any questions.
✨ 🔉 Hi! Here's my CFP for a special recurring series on queer/trans sound art for Resonance: The Journal of Sound & Culture. I'm seeking guest essays, audiovisual media, commentaries, interviews, and other editorial items *in addition* to peer-reviewed scholarship! online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
Miranda Banks and I assembled a great crew for the In Media Res WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike week.
mediacommons.org/imr/
Friendly reminder: if you are excited for D20 (or any other AP) & want to ensure there’s more coverage of it, I encourage you to click & share the articles covering it. It’s very hard to get followup deeper dives (hint hint) picked up if the announcement doesn’t get an enthusiastic response.
UCLA CalRBS is pleased to announce that it will host the second iteration of the #QueerBibliography conference in a hybrid format between July 25-July 27, 2024. A call for papers is forthcoming. Sign up for the CalRBS email list at the link in bio to be the first to know! 📚 📜 #libraries
we are doing a vampire theme week at polygon, set to launch oct 31! please consider pitching us stories about vampires, and also please share our vampire week pitch guide (link below) with other writers you know bc twitter is useless now. THANK YOU docs.google.com/document/d/1...