My Project So Far

The basic premise for my project has changed last year. The idea for the conference while impressive-sounding, revealed why it was so impressive-sounding—it would have killed me. Thus, the new tentative plan is to create a website. An online conference has been mentioned, but pending McNair decisions and other such things, that idea is something vague and future-ey. For now, the website if probably going to be a resource website for slash fiction scholarship. I know that people have posted links in fanfiction resource pages. In fact, amateur scholarship on fanfiction itself has its own name online: “meta”. However, meta and serious scholarship are very different and few people are in touch with actual scholarship on the subject. And that’s a ramble about what I know so far as to how this subject has been explored online before.

Now, for the moment I’m collecting scholarship on the topic to put in the resource section. Anna Alves recommended some books to me that I’m checking out. One of which is “Harry Potter and the Ivory Tower” a book that I picked up a year ago at a library, and am having fun reading fully. I already know that the website will be geocities, as I am not a web designer. However, so near as I can tell, geocities doesn’t have a template for a forum, so I’m trying to figure out how to set one up. I’m either going to put one on the page, or I’m going to set one up separately on livejournal or facebook. The latter option seems the most palatable, as my desired audience is already on those sites.

That’s all for the moment. Right now much of my time is going into my McNair application, but even if I get in, I hope to still maintain the website and to post my own paper on the subject at the end of next year.