a space for everyone who wants to work with fanfiction in cultural and literary studies.
16.00 c.t. | tbd: IG 4.201 or 4.155
F5 will continue! We’re excited to kick off the sessions with a welcome gathering and look forward to meeting new and old participants. It will be the space for further information, questions, suggestions, and collecting new interesting topics we want to discuss this semester.
Here, members of the Fanficforum give their thoughts on all things fanfiction as literature. Some posts are directly related to specific sessions, others aren’t.
Twilight hasn’t aged well. In this blog post, Alice Knöpfle talks about a few controversial scenarios which occurred in The Twilight Saga; how women are subdued, as seen in the female Cullen’s traumatic back stories that have been glossed over and reflected in Bella’s bland personality, and how fanfics have the power to eliminate problematic behavior and plots, expand storylines that can be empowering and improve the original story by rewriting it while staying canon – twenty years after the first book has been released. [read more]
Each year we also host a workshop where students present their current work on fanfic. The date for 2025/26 is still tbd but have a look at previous programmes through the links below!