[Sfts-students] *CALLING ALL YA/SF/FANTASY NERDS* Tracy Deonn Talk!

[Summer Sutton]

T-minus two hours! Hope to see you all there. :)

On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 10:04 AM Summer Sutton <ssutt004 at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I hope your quarter's going well! I'm writing to let you know that, as
> part of the GSEA's Spring Virtual Talk Series, we will be hosting (on Zoom)
> NY Times best selling YA Fantasy author Tracy Deonn this coming Monday
> (5/10 from Noon-1:30 PM)! Tracy will be giving a short reading of her
> creative work and a presentation on her research process, which will be
> followed by a moderated talk on history as fanfiction, fandom culture, and
> race in the SF/fantasy communities.
>
> For those unfamiliar with Tracy's work, to get an idea of the type of
> interventions she's making in the genre, I highly recommend an article she
> recently published in Tor, "Every King Arthur Retelling is Fanfic About Who
> Gets to Be Legendary":
>
> https://www.tor.com/2021/03/23/every-king-arthur-retelling-is-fanfic-about-who-gets-to-be-legendary/comment-page-1/
>
> For the second event of the series, we will be hosting fandom studies
> scholar Alexis Lothian, so this is a great opportunity for those
> researching fan cultures, if you are able to attend one or both events.
>
> Hope to see you there,
> Summer
>
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