Cultural Transformations Research Group at Aarhus University is pleased to announce that qualified research papers are considered for prospective publication in a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Otherness: Essays and Studies. The notions of otherness and transgression play an essential part in the cultural work and practices celebrities and fandoms perform inasmuch as these concepts are inseparable from the celebrity and fan cultural processes of social in/exclusion, identification and dissociation, uniformity and diversification, and forces both drawing and disrupting demarcations between normalcy and deviance.

Welcome Topics Include: The Intersection of Celebrity and Fan Studies, Sex, Gender, Sexual Differing, and Queering the Fan / Celebrity Body, Cross-Over Celebrities; Ethnicity, Hybridity, and Fandom in Transcultural Contexts, Social Media and the Construction of Celebrity as Other

Submit abstracts of no more than 300 words by Friday, August 22, 2014