Kristina Busse
{{Short description|American pedagogue}}
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| name = Kristina Busse
| image = Kristina Busse at Berkeley Center for New Media HTNM 19 Fan Studies Salon (48909120441).jpg
| caption = Busse at the Berkeley Center for New Media Fan Studies Salon in 2019
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|11|09}}
| birth_place = Germany
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| education = MA, English, 1993, PhD, English, 2002, Tulane University
| thesis_title =Imagining Auschwitz: Postmodern Representations of the Holocaust
| thesis_url =https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A24809
| thesis_year =2002
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| workplaces = University of South Alabama
| main_interests = fan studies
| website = {{URL|kristinabusse.com}}
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Kristina Dorothea Busse (born November 29, 1967) is a professor in the Philosophy department at the University of South Alabama. As the co-editor of Transformative Works and Cultures, her research focuses on fanfiction communities and fan culture. Alongside fandom academics Alexis Lothian and Robin Anne Reid, she coined the term "queer female space" in 2007.
Early life and education
Busse was born on November 29, 1967.{{cite web |title=Busse, Kristina, 1967- |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003099044.html |website=id.loc.gov |accessdate=September 13, 2020}} She earned her diploma and intermediate examination at the University of Mainz in Germany before travelling to the United States to complete her graduate degrees at Tulane University.{{cite web |title=Kristina Busse |url=https://www.southalabama.edu/colleges/artsandsci/genderstudies/busse.html |website=southalabama.edu |accessdate=September 13, 2020}}
Career
Upon joining the faculty in the Philosophy department at the University of South Alabama (USA), Busse published her first co-edited book with Karen Hellekson titled Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. The book was a collection of essays on the topic of fan fiction; such as fan culture, fanfiction communities, and fan experiences.{{cite journal |last1=Hills |first1=Matt |title=Book Reviews Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet |journal=The International Journal of Media and Culture |date=October 14, 2008 |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=262–263 |doi=10.1080/15405700802240451 |s2cid=142981140 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15405700802240451? |accessdate=September 13, 2020|url-access=subscription }} Alongside fandom academics Alexis Lothian and Robin Anne Reid, she coined the term "queer female space" in 2007 to describe the construction of a “fannish fantasy space as a place where women can experiment and explore” within slash fan communities on LiveJournal.{{cite journal |last1=Lothian |first1=Alexis |last2=Busse |first2=Kristina |last3=Reid |first3=Robin Ann |author3-link=Robin Anne Reid |title="Yearning Void and Infinite Potential": Online Slash Fandom as Queer Female Space |journal=English Language Notes |date=2007 |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=103–111 |doi=10.1215/00138282-45.2.103 |url=http://queergeektheory.org/docs/Lothian_QFS.pdf |accessdate=September 13, 2020}}
As a board member of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), Busse collaborated with Hellekson to establish the Transformative Works and Cultures academic journal through the OTW.{{cite journal |last1=Hellekson |last2=Blackford |last3=Murphy |first1=Karen |first2=Russell |first3=Graham |title=New Journal: Transformative Works and Cultures |journal=Science Fiction Studies |date=July 2008 |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=360–362 |jstor=25475168|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25475168}} They came to the idea of an academic fan studies journal after witnessing discussions for Archive of Our Own, a fanfiction archive. Together, they found an open-access platform to share their records and picked an editorial board to oversee their research papers prior to print.{{cite web |last1=Rebaza |first1=Claudia |title=Five Things Kristina Busse Said |url=https://www.transformativeworks.org/five-things-kristina-busse-said/ |website=transformativeworks.org |accessdate=September 13, 2020 |date=February 21, 2020}} Busse continued her research into fandom communities and published her second book with Louisa Stein in 2012 titled Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom. Similar to her first book, this was a collection of essays examining the cultural intersections and fan traditions surrounding the Sherlock Holmes fandom.{{cite journal |last1=Williams |first1=Rebecca |title=Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom: Essays on the BBC Series |journal=Critical Studies in Television |date=2014 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=127-128,135-136 |publisher=Manchester University Press}}{{cite journal |last1=Ingram‐Waters |first1=Mary |title=Book Review Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom: Essays on the BBC Series |journal=The Journal of Popular Culture |date=August 2014 |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=914–916 |doi=10.1111/jpcu.12174 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.12174 |accessdate=September 13, 2020|url-access=subscription }}
As a result of her scholarship in fanfiction, Busse and Hellekson co-edited The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, a collection of texts surrounding the field fandom, identity, and feminism.{{cite journal |last1=Kustritz |first1=Anna |title=The Fan Fiction Studies Reader ed. by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (review) |journal=Cinema Journal |date=Spring 2015 |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=165–169 |doi=10.1353/cj.2015.0019 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/579667/pdf |accessdate=September 17, 2020 |publisher=University of Texas Press|s2cid=144648023 |url-access=subscription }} They argued that the study of fanfiction was becoming increasingly more important because of the success of fanfiction turned movies, such as the Fifty Shades trilogy series.{{cite journal |last1=Cheuk |first1=Fiona N. |title=Review of The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, Eds. Hellekson, Karen., and Kristina Busse (2014) |journal=Canadian Journal of Disability Studies |date=2019 |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=279–293 |doi=10.15353/cjds.v8i2.501 |url=https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/501/756 |accessdate=September 17, 2020|doi-access=free }}
Busse submitted expert witness testimony on behalf of writer Zoey Ellis in the Omegaverse copyright lawsuit, which received widespread media attention for the questions it raised about intellectual property.{{cite news |last1=Alter |first1=Alexandra |title=A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/business/omegaverse-erotica-copyright.html |work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611030407/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/business/omegaverse-erotica-copyright.html |archive-date=11 June 2020 |date=23 May 2020}}
Selected publications
- Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities (2017)
- The Fan Fiction Studies Reader (Co-edited with Karen Hellekson 2014)
- Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom (Co-edited with Louisa Stein 2012)
- Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet (Co-edited with Karen Hellekson 2006)
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