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Mel Stanfill
@melstanfill.bsky.social
Associate Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
there are few words in the English language i cannot spell. there are a great many i cannot type accurately at speed. and the removal of the squiggly underlines in Outlook are doing me in.
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
September 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
i guess this got announced today . . . Fandom Is Ugly won the National Communication Association Diamond Anniversary Book Award www.natcom.org/nca-awards/2...
September 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
well, apropos of recent news stories about how professors are objects of interpretation and negative feels . . . Professor Superstar now has a cover. press.umich.edu/Books/P/Prof...
September 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
is Qualtrics confused about what is gender and what is sexuality? or do its autopopulated answers take a radical approach to sexuality in terms of object choice?
August 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
in which i have become a person whose book indexes include multiple references to death threats
August 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
the syllabus policy part
August 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
the writing part:
August 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
the reading part:
August 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
me: a bunch of us are Leos, let's have a pope-themed joint birthday
me, writing the invitation, googling "what is the most catholic font"

ok i walked right into that one
August 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
it's exciting to be digging into the proofs of Professor Superstar

but also

what an interesting ("interesting") time to be working on the topics discussed in Professor Superstar
August 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
who are definitely not the same character.
July 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is such a fascinating framing coming from the WSJ. I would not have expected them to equate Israeli and Russian military actions.
June 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
wondering about all the hype over "white genocide in South Africa"? my new paper with Rachel Marks, "Don’t catch the woke mind virus: Social justice terminology as meme in the right-wing Twitter ecosystem," is for you: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
May 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Excited to find my contributor copy of Participatory Culture Wars in my mailbox this morning!
May 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
To go along with “the entire NEH office you have applied to is fired” email, I got my notice of post-tenure review yesterday. Weee
April 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
And it’s pretty exciting to still be front and center with Exploiting Fandom after all these years.
April 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
And then Rock this Way from @uofmpress.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Always exciting to see my books in the wild in the #scms25 book room.

I made it onto the NYU promo sign with Fandom is Ugly. (In some GREAT company)
April 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
things that i would have missed by using deck.blue instead of the direct app
April 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
My copy of the second edition of the Routledge Companion to Fandom has arrived! My chapter talks about how the monetization of fan fiction has changed with things like Wattpad and AI.
March 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
officially sent the next book, Professor Superstar: Fandom and Anti-fandom of Academia, to the press! here's a preview of the TOC
March 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
February 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
so the ACM is doing better at meeting the moment than most other academic organizations and universities. the ACM. make it make sense.
February 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
January 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM