PhD @UofUEnglish '24 | she/her 🏳️🌈 | 📚 pop culture, platforms, #fanstudies, DH, Tolkien | ✍🏻 diss: D&D, drow, “canon” | #FSNNA, #CritRoleBib, @SaltLakeCC
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Joined October 2018
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SO excited: our edited collection on The Untamed is now available from @PeterLangGroup!
It includes 15 chapters on everything from internet authorship to complicating censorship, the 227 Incident, fic, & more, PLUS interview w/ ExR translator K!
peterlang.com/document/12894…
ALT A screenshot of an official publisher flyer for the edited collection Catching Chén Qíng Lìng.
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
Our submissions for the FSNNA 2025 conference are now open! Our theme this year is Reputation: Influence, Power, & Capital.
🤔Pick from: poster OR poster + talk
✍️Due: Abstract, bio, keywords
⏰Deadline: Friday, May 16
For full CFP & form, see: fsn-northamerica.org/2025/04…
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
I have *finally* got my hands on @misscaprice717 and @MariaKAlberto's edited collection exploring transcultural fandom for the world famous #danmei series #TheUntamed! Can't wait to dig in and read this important work in global #BL and fandom studies 🥰
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
New EXU...👀
After Calamity Ends, A New Age Begins 🌱🎲
As the Gods craft the Divine Gate and seal themselves off from the mortal realms of Exandria, players @matthewmercer, @voiceofobrien, @jasminevdon, @AlexWard777, and Celia Rose Gooding pick up the pieces of a shattered world in #ExUDivergence a new four-week miniseries Game Mastered by the incomparable Brennan Lee Mulligan - premiering February 13th at 7PM PT on BEACON, YouTube, and Twitch! ✨
READ MORE ⬇️
critrole.com/state-of-the-ro…
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
Hello everyone! We are excited to announce that we're looking for new FSNNA committee members ahead of #FSNNA25
deadline: Jan 31
need: bio and Q&A emailed
See more, and our full call, on the website here: fsn-northamerica.org/2025/01…
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
Do you study #anime , #manga , #cosplay , or their fandoms?
The Call for Papers for JAMS Volume 6 is LIVE!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.ed…
JAMS is full #openaccess, and Volume 6 will be published in December 2025!
Delighted to report that my dissertation is now available open-access on ProQuest!
In it, I propose a definition of "canon" as used in and by contemporary transmedia franchises: exemplified by D&D and decades of texts about drow.
(link below!)
Available through most library accounts here: proquest.com/dissertations-t…
(or dm for a PDF!)
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
Happy new year from the ARB! We asked our contributors for their most interesting reads of 2024; here's 17 you should have on your radar:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2…
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
Today is J.R.R. #Tolkien's 133rd birthday!
As Frodo did for Bilbo, the Tolkien Society continues to celebrate Tolkien's birthday in his absence with our #TolkienBirthdayToast. Our tradition: at 9pm your time raise a glass and toast, "The Professor!" tolkiensociety.org/events/to…
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
My book about race in fandom came out yesterday! If you like Les Mis, thoughts about racebent headcanons and analysis of Tumblr AUs, please tell your library to order a copy!
bloomsbury.com/uk/constructi…
ALT The book cover for "The construction of race in Les Miserables fanworks". The cover is a loosely coloured sketch of a man wearing a head scarf and thick moustache holding a rifle.
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
Is there a doctor on the flight? Specifically an English PhD? A passenger is attributing the views of the first-person narrator to the biographical author
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
Just a reminder that our annual SIG meeting will take place during the SCMS pre-conference on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 9-11am CDT. Watch your email for links and more details.
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
We’re excited to announce that we will be publishing TUSK LOVE, the saucy romance novel beloved by @CriticalRole's Jester (and tolerated by the Mighty Nein), on July 1! 💕 Preorder this steamy novel by @theagwrites here: CriticalRoleBooks.com
Cover illustration: @erionmakuo
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
Happy 4th Destiel-Putin-Election anniversary everyone
Really enjoyed talking to @palak_jayswal for this one, and excited to see so many other D&D folks from across the valley shining here too!
Maria K. Alberto, PhD (✍️🏼 a book proposal!!) retweeted
COVER REVEAL!
We're excited to invite you to Barovia, where a group of five strangers must survive the twisted enigmas of Strahd and Castle Ravenloft—lest the mists of Barovia claim them forever.
ALT Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd by Delilah S. Dawson Coming Spring 2025
