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| User: | robin_anne_reid (12411090)  Dr. Robin Anne Reid
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| Name: | robin_anne_reid | |
| Website: | Tamarisk and Terebinth | |
| Bio: | July 2, 2007 LiveJournal is, for me, a perfect example of process and change, a way to track some strands of the web of languages, interests, and communities that interest me. I first came into LJ in 2003, having had no experience with online fandom or social spaces or electronic communication beyond email and listservs (primarily related to my academic work). I wanted to stay in touch with friends I had met at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts (www.iafa.org). On the plane home, I started writing my first slash story. I then realized my LJ would be a fan journal although I also used it as a personal diary, a place to rant (locked down) about work, and, increasingly, as an extended support group and sounding board for my academic work. It wasn't enough that I started writing fanfic: I went one step further (maybe ten) and began writing scholarship on fan fiction. Since spring 2003, I have not only written reams of fan fiction, I have learned new technical skills, written academic essays collaboratively with friends here in LJ, and begun teaching online. This LJ is one I've set up as my general academic one, under my full and legal name. I have more specialized ones (for my academic work on fan fiction and my teaching online journal, as well as communities, not too active at the moment, relating to some of my work). My original reason for starting *this* LJ was in response to an imposter journal set up by a disgruntled student at MySpace (which was been removed when I notified them that it was a fake account). Then, debate over acacdemic/fan splits in terms of weblogs versus LiveJournal began to occur, and I decided that I wanted to stay in LJ under my academic persona rather than move into the "blogosphere." Since part of my interest in teaching online involves the issue of online literacies, I plan to use this blog in two ways: first, as a way to explore ideas relating to my teaching and scholarship; and second, as a way to track some of what I observe in academic spaces and cultures. For some years, the issue of academics exploring ideas in more general and public spaces has been debated; while the debate has been going on, the world wide web offers an opportunity to do exactly that. So we'll see how it works. My professional and fan LJs will remain the only web presences I maintain (outside my department faculty page). Any other blog, account, or journal at any other site that purports to be mine is making false claims. | |
| Pictures: | fewer than 10 public | |
| Interests: | 39: academia, anti-racism, composition, convergence culture, creative writing, cultural criticism, emergent literatures, fan studies, fandom, fantasy, feminist theory, film, film studies, fpf, fps, gender theory, human subjects protection, jackson, literature, lord of the rings, marginalized literatures, media, media studies, multicultural literacies, multicultural literature, mythopoeic society, new media literacies, online teaching, queer theory, rpf, rps, science fiction, second life, speculative fiction, teaching, technical writing, the internet, tolkien, women writers | |
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| Mutual Friends: | 102: 10zlaine, 1ooo1o1, 4ca2nm, alixtii, amlopez, angstslashhope, anna_smol, aprilkat, atckaolj, b_westmoreland, banzailibrarian, barbedwriting, berniebrus, blacksquirrel, bluestocking7, buckeye84, busarewski, cacahuate, caras_galadhon, carenejeans, cheshyre, christy_foreman, clbowen, cryptoxin, d_martin, decarnin, definitesky, dnjones, dracschick, driscoll, elanorgardner, elements, elgrey, ellen_denham, erinreadsalot, esmeraldus_neo, fandrogyny, fides, fjm, fotada, gnomicutterance, grinning_soul, hafren, halloweennadine, heyiya, ileafu, jonathan_gray, karriaagzh, katt_blackwell, kbusse, kellyfaboo, kestrell, kheha, khellekson, killalla, kphoebe, lauraquilter, lauredhel, lauren_glenn, lavendertook, litchild, liu4683, lizw, lloronas_eyes, lobelia321, madame_meretrix, mafaldastasi, makamu, mastergode, mecurtin, michelle_pirkle, nikitangel, nuhiep, pjholcomb, rez_lo, robin_anne_reid, robin_webroom, sarah_gibson, savageseraph, sheenaghpugh, slashpile, sockkpuppett, spes_unica, st_crispins, staubundsterne, susan_b5, tablesaw, tacky_tramp, tazlet, tcastleb, the_acrobat, the_garden_of, theorynut, toshfraggle, tournevis, tracy_orrick, turelietelconta, wcommons, wendywoowho, wild_patience, xanphibian, zellieh | |
| Also Friend of: | 4: cyborganize, kitsune13, lockedindream, springgreen | |
| Member of: | 17: ccfantastic, fan_lib_study, fandebate, fandom_counts, fycomp, gay_second_life, iaafs, ibarw, myth_soc, paidmembers, second_lifers, slash_conf, slshopping, slsomethingelse, tolkien_at_kzoo, virgule, wsfencyclopedia | |
| Account type: | Paid Account | |
