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Dr Rebecca Williams
@augustaquarius.bsky.social
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⭐️Associate Professor
📚 @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member
🎢 Transmedia Tourism • Experience Economy • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
❤️ Sushi • Margaritas • Minions
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The special issue of Critical Studies in Television on the 40th anniversary of EastEnders that I edited with the fantastic Christine Geraghty is now officially out!

6 great articles & an Editorial, all open access!

journals.sagepub.com/toc/CST/curr...
September 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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My own article in my EastEnders at 40 special issue @cstonline.bsky.social is now online in open access

Solving ‘The Six’: EastEnders, convergence culture, and ‘forensic fandom’ #FanStudies

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Six characters from the UK soap opera EastEnders; Stacey Slater, Suki Panesar, Linda Carter, Sharon Watts, Denise Fox and Kathy Cotton
May 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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My latest book is out in the world! An edited collection with two fantastic co-editors on one of my favourite films 🎄🎃🎄🎃

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...

#nightmarebeforechristmas #academia #thisacademiclife #newbook #bloomsburypublishing
Photo of an academic book titled The Nightmare Before Christmas edited by Filipa Antunes, Brittany Eldridge and Rebecca Williams
March 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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This arrived today; the second edition of The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom with my updated chapter on Fan Tourism and Pilgrimage: Revisited. #FanStudies
Picture shows front cover of a book The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom edited by Melissa A Click and Suzanne Scott The image shows a page from the book The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom second edition. The page reads Fan Tourism and Pilgrimage Revisited by Rebecca Williams
March 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Happy 5th birthday to my little book #FanStudies
February 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Advertise your account using one Simpsons image:
February 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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January 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
January 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Been a fairly average year so I'm off to hide in the forest for a while. See you all in 2025.
A photo of inside a log cabin with a lit Christmas tree in one corner.
December 30, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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Epic EastEnders episode combining two previous iconic storyline moments into a new reveal #EastEnders
December 25, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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A screenshot from Muppets Christmas Carol of Kermit the Frog standing and looking up at the sky
December 24, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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A picture with text reading Out of Office and a picture of a red and white candy cane, two orange slices, two walnuts, a small white heart and some fir tree branches. The entire image is surrounded by white snow.
December 16, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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No real surprises in the 2024 Spotify Wrapped, apart from Lady Gaga pushing Pulp out of my top 5
A list of top five artists for 2024 on Spotify Wrapped. The list says 1. Jimmy Eat World 2. Kylie Minogue 3. Keane 4. Madonna 5. Lady Gaga A list of top 5 songs on Spotify Wrapped Your top song was Place Your Debts by Jimmy Eat World You're a top 0.05% fan of Jimmy Eat World and you spent 1378 minutes together
December 4, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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What does this even mean?
December 4, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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Proofs for the Nightmare Before Christmas book I'm co-editing have arrived!!! 🎃🎃🎃
October 20, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Missed this getting published when I was on holiday last month, but I was excited to talk a little about the allure of rollercoasters in a piece in Easyjet Traveller magazine ⬇️⬇️⬇️
October 7, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Looking forward to talking about ‘“Somehow, Iger Returned”: Brand Fandom, Stardom, & Disney’s Celebrity CEOs’ @CSJcelebstudies in July!
January 15, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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Nooooo!!!!!!
December 31, 2023 at 3:18 PM
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I'm not ready.
December 9, 2023 at 11:09 AM
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My heart #doctorwho 💔
December 4, 2023 at 7:42 PM
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Wonderful food at The Welsh House in Cardiff last night
November 18, 2023 at 1:27 PM
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I've been in Boston, presenting at the Theme Park Play Workshop, organised by the fabulous @ybika and I feel energised about research & what to do next. Thanks to all the presenters for comments & questions and the generally lovely supportive atmosphere. Same time next year?
November 12, 2023 at 3:27 PM
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November 1, 2023 at 1:23 PM
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October 31st / November 1st
November 1, 2023 at 12:38 PM
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Timely news for Halloween. My next book is officially an edited collection for Bloomsbury on my beloved Nightmare Before Christmas with the fantastic Brittany Eldridge & Filipa Antunes 🎃🎃🎃🎄🎄🎄
October 31, 2023 at 2:20 PM