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pennswoodsIf you follow any of my other social media, you will have seen this, but my book has a publication date of October 2026. I am going to promote the shit out of it when it's here. I'm also REALLY happy that my cover includes one of the photos I took during my Sherlock days and is an actual example of my fan practice.
This book is not only full of research and teaching ideas, but it also includes some of my own stuff, including a few #setlock photos (in Chapter 4) and my own fanfic (Chapter 1 begins with a Harry Potter Drabble I wrote in response to the Virginia Tech Shooting - yes, I start my book by talking about a school shooting). Chapter 3 is more uplifting and explores research on fan practices for learning different languages, with a particular emphasis on research on Kpop and Kdrama fans and their Korean language learning. There is also a lot of love in this book for Sweden and my former students and colleagues at Malmö University, where I developed the Fanfiction Project over 6 years (2013-21018) - Chapter 5 investigates students' language awareness by analyzing nearly 400 reflection papers written by the students who wrote fanfiction for me during that time.
And also, Chapter 7, is going to be open access. That's the chapter that contains teaching materials and advice for teachers who want to bring fanfiction into their classrooms. I know that internationally teachers do not have USD $50 to spend on a book like this, but I believe so much in the use of fanfiction as a tool to support language and literacy learning that I wanted to make sure as many people as possible could get their hands on it. It costs about $1900 to make a chapter fully open access and I am fortunate enough to have gotten access to a small fund to spend for this. Thank you to the (soon to be) UMBC School of Education and its TESOL Program for making this possible.
This book is not only full of research and teaching ideas, but it also includes some of my own stuff, including a few #setlock photos (in Chapter 4) and my own fanfic (Chapter 1 begins with a Harry Potter Drabble I wrote in response to the Virginia Tech Shooting - yes, I start my book by talking about a school shooting). Chapter 3 is more uplifting and explores research on fan practices for learning different languages, with a particular emphasis on research on Kpop and Kdrama fans and their Korean language learning. There is also a lot of love in this book for Sweden and my former students and colleagues at Malmö University, where I developed the Fanfiction Project over 6 years (2013-21018) - Chapter 5 investigates students' language awareness by analyzing nearly 400 reflection papers written by the students who wrote fanfiction for me during that time.
And also, Chapter 7, is going to be open access. That's the chapter that contains teaching materials and advice for teachers who want to bring fanfiction into their classrooms. I know that internationally teachers do not have USD $50 to spend on a book like this, but I believe so much in the use of fanfiction as a tool to support language and literacy learning that I wanted to make sure as many people as possible could get their hands on it. It costs about $1900 to make a chapter fully open access and I am fortunate enough to have gotten access to a small fund to spend for this. Thank you to the (soon to be) UMBC School of Education and its TESOL Program for making this possible.
