The magical morphing dojinshi paper, part 1: First Version

[unjapanologist]

Originally published at Academic FFF. You can comment here or there.

Late last year I came across a call for papers on fan culture from the most excellent anime and manga research journal Mechademia. It was a bit early in the project for paper writing, but I couldn't resist and wrote up my current theoretical framework and preliminary results on Harry Potter dojinshi and fanfic anyway.

That paper wasn't accepted for publication, but writing it was a great experience: I got large amounts of extremely encouraging feedback from people who'd read the full submission or the part of it I put on LJ and IJ, which helped me uncover several theoretical deficiencies and showed me many fascinating new ways of looking at the results. Many, many thanks to everyone who so graciously took the time to send their comments.

Since my theoretical framework and preliminary results are being fine-tuned at a very fast rate now while I prepare for a large-scale experiment, this paper finished early in January will just end up outdated by sitting on my computer for months until I find another suitable CFP to submit it to. So I'm making the original available for download and will re-post sections from it as I rewrite and improve them. (A wiki page would be good for keeping track of changes made so I'll probably use that as well, but there's a few technical issues to solve first.) Here's the pdf:

James loves Severus, but only in Japan. 'Harry Potter' in Japanese and English-language fanwork

Enjoy.

ETA: everything on the main site of the project is published under a CC license, and so is this pdf.