Charlotte Stevens
Charlotte works mainly in television and fandom studies, with a strong interest in archival and historical aspects of audiences. She also co-leads the Game Cultures research cluster. Charlotte has published on fanvids, video game fan histories, screen vampires, and poetic television documentaries on the BBC. She is currently working on two projects: one looking at fanzines, and another about vids made using video game sources.
Areas of Expertise
- Television studies
- Television history
- Fandom studies
- Fanvids and vidding
- Audience studies
- Digital game studies
- Analogue game studies
- East Asian television
- Archival practice
- Adaptation
- Transmedia storytelling
Qualifications
- PhD, Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick, UK (2015)
- MA, Communication & Culture, York University, Canada (2010)
- BA (Hons), Film (Cinema and Media Studies), York University, Canada (2008)
Memberships
- BAFTSS
- SCMS
- PCA
Teaching
- BA Media and Communication
- BA Film Studies
- BA Film and Screenwriting
- BA Filmmaking
- MA Media and Cultural Studies (past)
- PGR research supervision
Research
- Women and minority genders in fandom
- Queer and female fan producers
- Game studies
- History of film and video
- Global film and TV studies
- East Asian media cultures and digital culture
- Transmedia narrative and adaptation.
Postgraduate Supervision
- Director of Studies: Sharon Kong-Perring, 'We Call Them Idol: Globalisation, Transculturality, and Appropriation in Global K-Pop Fan Performance.' In progress.
- 3rd supervisor: Zeynep Serinkaya Winter (Nottingham Trent University), 'Digital Intimate Publics, Yeşilçam Fandom, and Nostalgia for Old Turkey.' AHRC funded, in progress.
- 2nd supervisor: Sebastian F. K. Svegaard, ‘‘All the Feels!’: Music, Affect and Critique in Vids’, awarded 2022.
Publications
Monograph
- Stevens, E. Charlotte, Fanvids: Television, Women, and Home Media Re-Use. Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
Journal articles
- Stevens, E. Charlotte, and Nick Webber. ‘The Fan-Historian.’ In ‘Fandom Histories,’ edited by Philipp Dominik Keidl and Abby Waysdorf, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures 37 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2022.2125.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘“Researching Starsky and Hutch is exquisite torture”: Letters about Television in 1980s Media Fanzines.’ Alphaville 20 (2020), 213-219. http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue20/HTML/DossierStevens.html
- Stevens, E. Charlotte, and John Wyver. ‘Intermedial Relationships of Radio Features with Denis Mitchell’s and Philip Donnellan’s Early Television Documentaries.’ Media History, 24.2 (2018): 252-265.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte, ‘Curating A Fan History of Vampires: “What We Vid in the Shadows” at VidUKon 2016.’ Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 10.3 (2017): 263-275.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘To Watch Wonder Woman.’ In Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema at Forty. Commentary and Criticism, Feminist Media Studies 15.5 (2015): 900-903.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘Telling the (Wrong) Story: The Disintegration of Transcultural Communication and Narrative in The Fall.’ CineAction 80 (2010): 30-37.
Book sections: Published
- Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘Short Take 4: Materialities of Television History.’ In: Media Materialities: Form, Format, and Ephemeral Meaning. BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research. Edited by Iain A. Taylor and Oliver Carter. Intellect, 2023. 91-92.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘Video Game Fanvids as Paratexts and as Texts.’ In (Not) in the Game: History, Paratexts, and Games. Edited by Regina Seiwald and Edwin Vollans. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. 119-135.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘Fanvids.’ In The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek. Edited by Leimar Garcia-Siino, Sabrina Mittermeier, Stefan Rabitsch. Routledge, 2022. 251-257.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘Historical Binge-Watching: Marathon Viewing on Videotape.’ In Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies. Edited by Mareike Jenner. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 23-39.
- Bury, Rhiannon, and E. Charlotte Stevens. ‘Binge-Watching and Fandom: Conclusion.’ In Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies. Edited by Mareike Jenner. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 59-61.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘Video Game to Streaming Series: The Case of Castlevania on Netflix.’ In Global TV Horror. Edited by Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott. University of Wales Press, 2021. 197-212.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte, and John Wyver. ‘Intermedial Relationships of Radio Features with Denis Mitchell’s and Philip Donnellan’s Early Television Documentaries.’ In Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC, edited by Aasiya Lodhi, Amanda Wrigley. Routledge, 2020. 252-265.
- Webber, Nick, and E. Charlotte Stevens. ‘History, Fandom, and Online Game Communities.’ In Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian. Edited by Alexander von Lünen, Katherine J. Lewis, Benjamin Litherland, Pat Cullum. Routledge, 2020. 189-203.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘On Vidding: The Home Media Archive and Vernacular Historiography.’ In Cult Media: Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored. Edited by Jonathan Wroot and Andy Willis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 143-159.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘The Popular Electronic: Doctor Who and the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop.’ In Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Edited by Melissa Beattie, Ross P. Garner, and Una McCormack. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. 172-182.
Book sections: Forthcoming
- Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘Chinese (Pseudo)Archaeology on Television: A Daomu Biji Case Study.’ In Routledge
- Handbook of Archaeology and Media in the 21st Century. Edited by Lorna-Jane Richardson, Andrew Reinhard, and Nicole Smith. Routledge, to be published 15 June 2024.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte, and Zoë Shacklock. ‘Monstrous Mobilities and Predatory Perspectives: Drone Shots and the Gaze of Monsters.’ In Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetics. Edited by Elisa Serafinelli. Palgrave Pivot, in review.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte. ‘Haters Gonna Hate: Fanvid Adaptations of Slings & Arrows Villains.’ In Slings & Arrows: Performing Shakespeare as Canada. Edited by Kailin Wright and Don Moore. University of Toronto Press, in review.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte, and Llin. ‘Vidshow Curation, Community, and the Aesthetic Boundary-Work of Fan Conventions.’ In Alternativity in Media and Cultural Research. BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research. Edited by Asya Draganova and E. Charlotte Stevens. Intellect, in review.
- Stevens, E. Charlotte, and Sharon Kong-Perring. ‘The Vampire ‘Concept’ in Korean Idol Performance.’ In “What Music They Make”: Critical Analysis of Vampire-Related Music Videos. Edited by Simon Bacon. Lexington Books, in preparation.