On 19 January, it’s finally here: the first student conference on fanfiction at Goethe University Frankfurt! Four students from BA & MA programmes at Goethe and beyond present current academic work on fanfic. The conference will be kicked off with a guest lecture from the UK.
All conference presentations are 20 minutes long, with time for questions afterwards. The language of the respective presentation is indicated after the title.
The conference will be held in hybrid format. The physical part happens at the Goethe Uni Hörsaalzentrum (HZ 14). For the zoom link please email info@fanficforum-ffm.de.
Programme
19 January 2024 | Goethe-University | Campus Westend | Hörsaalzentrum | Room HZ 14
14:00
Welcome [DE/EN]
14:10
Keynote [EN]
Dr Judith Fathallah, Lancaster University
15:00
Gay Fanfiction Meets Persuasion: Queer Rewritings of Classics of English Literature through Crossover Fanfiction [EN]
Archana Raghavan, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
15:40
Restoring Lost Themes: The Terror of The Court of Owls in Batman Fanfiction [EN]
Lea Bruch, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
16:20
Break
16:40
Authors & Authenticity. Author’s Personas through Paratext in Fanfiction [EN]
Patricia Heise, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
17:20
“Someone will remember us” – Queer Memory in Fanfiction [DE]
Marlene Bunte, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena