Mondays, 12:45 - 15:20
Biology Building (JH), Room A105
1001 E 3rd St, Bloomington, IN 47405
Instructor: Associate Professor John A. Walsh, jawalsh@iu.edu.
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2pm - 4pm; schedule an appointment at <https://fantastical.app/jawalsh-r1Wz/office-hours>. Email to schedule an appointment outside those hours.
Charles “Teenie” Harris. Girl reading “Mickey Mouse and the Submarine Pirates” comic book with small dog lying across her lap, in George Harris’s confectionery store, 2121 Wylie Avenue, Hill District. 1947.
Schedule
- Week 1 (2026-02-02): Introductions
- Week 2 (2026-02-09): Fan studies and key concepts
- Week 3 (2026-02-16): Ethnography and autoethnography
- Week 4 (2026-02-23): Fanzines and qualitative content analysis
- Week 5 (2026-03-02): Paratexts, fan mail, and fan fiction
- Week 6 (2026-03-09): Archival and material methods (Class will meet at the Lilly Library)
- Spring Break (2026-03-16): No Class.
- Week 7 (2026-03-23): Corpus building and documentation
- Week 8 (2026-03-30): Text analysis for fan studies
- Week 9 (2026-04-06): Content analysis and NVivo
- Week 10 (2026-04-13): Data modeling for comics and fandom
- Week 11 (2026-04-20): Visualization as argument
- Week 12 (2026-04-27): Fans-creator relations and research presentations