Academic Books and Articles

Supernatural and our fandom has become a subject of academic interest with a number of books and articles published on a variety of aspects of both.

For shorter fan writings in this area see Meta Essays

Books

2020

• Supernatural Out of the Box
• Howell, Charlotte E. (2020). Divine Programming: Negotiating Christianity in American Dramatic Television Production 1996-2016. Oxford University Press.

2019

• Death in Supernatural
• Bennett, Eve. 2019. Gender in Post-9/11 American Apocalyptic Television: Representations of Masculinity and Femininity at the End of the World. New York: Bloomsbury.

2017

• Booth, Paul and Isabella Menichiello (eds). 2017. Time Lords & Tribbles, Winchesters and Muggles: The DePaul Pop Culture Conference. Self published by Booth and Menichiello.
• Fathallah, Judith May. 2017. Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Culture Texts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
• Langley, Travis and Lynn Zubernis (eds). 2017. Supernatural Psychology: Roads Less Traveled. Sterling Publishing.

2016

• Booth, Paul. 2016. Crossing Fandoms: SuperWhoLock and the Contemporary Fan Audience. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan; PDF preview
• Edmundson, Melissa (ed). 2016. The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural: Essays on the Television Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
• Wright, Julia M. 2016. Men with stakes: Masculinity and the Gothic in US Television. Manchester University Press.

2014

• Television, Religion and Supernatural
• Supernatural, Humanity, and the Soul
• Fan Phenomena: Supernatural

2013

• Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls
• Supernatural and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Monsters... for Idjits

2012

• Fandom at the Crossroads

2011

• TV Goes To Hell

2009

• In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural

2007

• Some of Us Really Do Watch for the Plot

Individual Chapters in Edited Volumes

2020

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2019

• Beeler, Karin. 2019. "Hunting for the branded body in Supernatural." In Tattoos in Crime and Detective Narratives: Marking and Remarking, eds. Kate Watson and Katharine Cox. Manchester University Press.
• Chin, Bertha. 2019. "When Hated Characters Talk Back: Twitter, Hate, and Fan/Celebrity Interactions." In Anti-Fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age, edited by Melissa Click, 291-314. New York: NYU Press.
• George, Jessica. 2019. 'Some Normal, Apple-pie Life': Gendering Home in Supernatural. In Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television (Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender, Volume 2), eds. Steven Gerrard, Samantha Holland, Robert Shail, 187-199. Emerald Publishing Limited.
• Graves, Stephanie A. (2019, in press). "The Transtextual Road Trip: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, and Televisual Forebears." In Transmediating the Whedonverses: Essays on Text, Paratext, and Metatext, edited by Julie L. Hawk and Juliette C. Kitchens, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Howell, Linda. 2019. Supernatural's Winchester Gospel: A Fantastic Midrash. In The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom: Essays on the Intersection of Religion and Pop Culture. Edited by Carole M. Cusack, John W. Morehead and Venetia L.D. Robertson. Jefferson: McFarland, pp. 49-65.
• Roach, Emily E. 2019. "Supernatural: Wincest and Dean Winchester's Bisexual Panic." Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities, edited by Joseph Brennan. University of Iowa Press.
• Ronnenberg, Susan Cosby. 2019. "So Many Chick Flick Moments: Dean Winchester's Centrifugal Evolution." In Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television (Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender, Volume 2), eds. Steven Gerrard, Samantha Holland, Robert Shail, 131-147. Emerald Publishing Limited.
• Rose, Jonathan A. 2019. Breaking the Scales: Refusal, Excess, and the Fat Male Body in Supernatural and Harry Potter Fan Fiction. In Representing Kink: Fringe Sexuality and Textuality in Literature, Digital Narrative and Popular Culture, edited by Sara K. Howe and Susan E. Cook. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

2018

• Stein, Louisa. 2018. "Of Spinoffs and Spinning Off." In A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, edited by Paul Booth, 401-413. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Zubernis, L., & Larson, K. 2018. Make space for us! Fandom in the real world. In A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, edited by Paul Booth, 145-161. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

2017

• Askwith, Ivan, Britta Lundin, and Aja Romano. 2017. "Industry/Fan Relations: A Conversation." In The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, edited by Melissa A. Click and Suzanne Scott, 365–378. New York: Routledge.
• Booth, Paul and Isabella Menichiello (eds). 2017. Part III: A Celebration of Supernatural. Time Lords & Tribbles, Winchesters & Muggles: The DePaul Pop Culture Conference: A Five-Year Retrospective. https://communication.depaul.edu/academics/research/publications/Pages/booth-time-lords.aspx
• George, Jessica. 2017. "'The Monster at the End of This Book': Authorship and Monstrosity in Supernatural." In Monsters and Monstrosity in 21st-Century Film and Television, eds. Cristina Artenie and Ashley Szanter, Universitas Press. https://www.academia.edu/32103362/_The_Monster_at_the_End_of_This_Book_Authorship_and_Monstrosity_in_Supernatural
• Re, Valentina. 2017. "The Monster at the End of This Book: Metalepsis, Fandom, and World Making in Contemporary TV Series." In World Building, edited by Marta Boni, 321-342, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam. https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1004106
• Sell, Christian and Sevenja Taubner. 2017. "Carry on Wayward Son: Supernatural als gottverlassene Suche nach dem richtigen Leben." In Von Game of Thrones bis The Walking Dead, eds. Timo Storck and Svenja Taubner. Berlin: Springer.

2016

• Booth, Paul and Lucy Bennett. 2016. "Interview with Emily Perkins, Actor in Supernatural." In Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture, eds. Paul Booth and Lucy Bennett. London: Bloomsbury.
• Booth Paul. 2016. "Supernatural Fandom: The Fandom Business." Crossing Fandoms. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
• Larsen, Katherine and Lynn Zubernis. 2016. "We See You (Sort of): Representations of Fans on Supernatural." In Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture, eds. Paul Booth and Lucy Bennett. London: Bloomsbury.

2015

• Golomb, Liorah. 2015. "Dipping a Toe into the DH Waters." In Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists, eds. Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, and Liorah Golomb. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/booksanddigitalresources/digital/9780838987681_humanities_OA.pdf

2014

• Fuchs, Michael. 2014. "'Three hundred channels and nothing's on': Metaleptic Genre-Mixing in Supernatural," in Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity: New Connections, New Perspectives, eds. Bianca Mitu, Silvia Branea, and Valentina Marinescu. Hanover: ibidem-Verlag.
• Macklem, Lisa. 2014. "From Monstrous Mommies to Hunting Heroines: The Evolution of Women on Supernatural." In The Canadian Fantastic in Focus: New Perspectives, edited by Allan Weiss. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

2013

• Graham. Anissa M. 2013. "A New Kind of Pandering: Supernatural and the World of Fanfiction." Fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century, eds. Kristin M. Barton and Jonathan M. Lampley. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
• Stein, Louisa Ellen. 2013. "#Bowdown to Your New God: Misha Collins and Decentered Authorship in the Digital Age." In A Companion to Media Authorship, eds. Jonathan Gray and Derek Johnson. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Wilkinson, Jules. 2013. "The Epic Love Story of Supernatural and Fanfic." Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, edited by Anne Jamison. https://www.wattpad.com/40308458-fic-why-fanfiction-is-taking-over-the-world-the

2012

• Fuchs, Michael. 2012. "Play it Again, Sam ... and Dean: Temporality and Meta-Textuality in Supernatural." In Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming, edited by Melissa Ames. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
• Klein, Michael J. and Kristi L. Shackelford. 2012. "'Hey Sammy, We're Not in Kansas Anymore': The Frontier Motif in Supernatural." In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, eds. Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press.

2011

• Freim, Nicole. 2011. "I'll Take Our Family Over Normal Any Day: Supernatural's Commentary on the Modern American Family." In Bound by Love: Familial Bonding in Film and Television since 1950, edited by Laura Mattoon D'Amore. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Fuchs, Michael. 2011. "Trapped in TV Land: Encountering the Hyperreal in Supernatural." In Simulation in Media and Culture: Believing the Hype, edited by Robin DeRosa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

2009

• Murphy, Caryn. 2008. "A Joint (Ad)Venture: The CW Network and the Youth Market." In The Business of Entertainment: Volume III, Television, edited by Robert C. Sickels, 17-33. Praeger.

Peer Reviewed Academic Articles

2020

• Xanthoudakis, Alex. 2020. "Mobilizing Minions: Fanactivism Efficacy of Misha Collins Fans in Supernatural Fandom." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 32. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1827

2019

• Leetal, D. B. 2019. Those Crazy Fangirls on the Internet: Activism of Care, Disability and Fan Fiction. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 8(2), 45-72. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v8i2.491

2018

• Brennan, Joseph. 2018. "Queerbaiting: The 'Playful' Possibilities of Homoeroticism." International Journal of Cultural Studies 21: 189-206. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1367877916631050
• "Special Issue: Queerbaiting," edited by Joseph Brennan, Journal of Fandom Studies, 6:2.
  • Brennan, Joseph. 2018. Introduction: Queerbaiting. Journal of Fandom Studies, 6:2. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.6.2.105_2.
  • Bridges, Elizabeth. 2018. A genealogy of queerbaiting: Legal codes, production codes, "bury your gays", and "The 100 mess." Journal of Fandom Studies, 6:2. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.6.2.115_1
  • McDermott, Michael. 2018. The contest of queerbaiting: Negotiating authenticity in fan-creator interactions. Journal of Fandom Studies, 6:2. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.6.2.133_1
  • Elliott, Jaquelin and Fowler, Megan. 2018. "Smile, Derek. Why don't you smile more?" The objectification of Derek Hale and queerbaiting in MTV's 'Teen Wolf'. Journal of Fandom Studies, 6:2. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.6.2.145_1
  • Roach, Emily E. 2018. The homoerotics of the boyband, queerbaiting and RPF in pop music fandoms. Journal of Fandom Studies, 6:2. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.6.2.167_1
  • Brennan, Joseph. 2018. Slashbaiting, an alternative to queerbaiting. Journal of Fandom Studies, 6:2. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.6.2.187_1
• Bourdaa, Mélanie., Cornillon, Claire., & Wells-Lassagne, Shannon. 2018. Introduction: Investigating The CW. Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, 4(2), 5-8. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-454X/8809
• Cardin, M. 2018. The "Problem" of Male Friendship in Supernatural and Its Fan Fiction. Sic, (1 - Year 9). https://doi.org/10.15291/SIC/1.9.LC.4
• Favard, Florent. 2018. Angels, demons and whatever comes next: the storyworld dynamics of Supernatural. Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, 4(2), 19-26. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-454X/8164
• Fuchs, Michael. 2018. Transgression -- identification -- interaction: Blu-ray bonus features and Supernatural's cult status. The Journal of Popular Television. 6: 303-322. https://doi.org/10.1386/jptv.6.3.303_1
• Hautsch, Jessica. 2018. "The Rhetorical Affordance of GIFs by Tumblr's Supernatural Fandom." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2018.1165.
• Jacobs, Naomi. 2018. "Live Streaming as Participation: A Case Study of Conflict in the Digital/Physical Spaces of Supernatural Conventions." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 28. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2018.1393
• Joseph, Charles. 2018. The CW Arrowverse and myth-making, or the commodification of transmedia franchising. Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, 4(2), 27-45. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-454X/8177
• Kemerly, Tony and Trisha Kemerly. 2018. A Supernatural Tale of Agency, Othering, and Oppression: The Road So Far. Popular Culture Review 29.1.
• Kies, Bridget. 2018. "The Ex-Fan's Place in Fan Studies." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2018.1402
• Le Fèvre-Berthelot, Anais. 2018. Gossip Girl and The CW: defining a new network. (You're nobody until you're talked about). Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, 4(2), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-454X/8190
• Popova, Milena. 2018. 'Dogfuck rapeworld': Omegaverse fanfiction as a critical tool in analyzing the impact of social power structures on intimate relationships and sexual consent. Porn Studies, DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2017.1394215
• Sanseverino, Gabriela Gruszynski, and Ana Cláudia Gruszynski. 2018. "Super-wiki: um olhar sobre cultura da convergência, inteligência coletiva e cultura participativa a partir do seriado supernatural." Mídia e Cotidiano: revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Mídia e Cotidiano. Niterói, RJ. Niterói, RJ: UFF. Vol. 12, n. 2, p. 51-68. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/182183
• Scott, Suzanne. 2018. "Towards A Theory of Producer/Fan Trolling." Participations: International Journal of Audience Research 15: 143-159.

2017

• Brennan, Joseph. 2017. 'Jensen Ackles is a (homophobic) douchebag': the 'politics of slash' in debates on a TV star's homophobia. Celebrity Studies 8: 246-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2016.1249897
• Jackson, Jessica P. 2017. It's a bird, it's a plane! No, wait, it's a Supernatural fan. Film Matters 8: 89-91. https://doi.org/10.1386/fm.8.1.89_1
• Lowe, J. S. A. 2017. We'll always have purgatory: Fan spaces in social media. The Journal of Fandom Studies 5: 175-192. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.5.2.175_1
• Ng, Eve. 2017. "Between Text, Paratext, and Context: Queerbaiting and the Contemporary Media Landscape." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.917

2016

• Brennan, Joseph. 2016. "If Duchamp's toilet can be a masterpiece..." Slash manips as fannish readymades. Journal of Fandom Studies 4:1, pp. 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.4.1.3_1
• Figueiredo, Carolina Dantas de; Meneses, Bruna Maria de. 2016. Fandom, Fanwork e Shipping como Estratégias de Engajamento em Supernatural. Revista GEMInIS 7: 154-170.
• Harrisson, Juliette Grace. 2016. "Shipping in Plato's Symposium." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 21. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2016.0690
• Herbig, Art, and Andrew F. Herrmann. 2016. Polymediated Narrative: The Case of the Supernatural Episode "Fan Fiction." International Journal of Communication, no. 10. http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4397
• Koszela, Aleksandra. 2016. The Leviathans in the Television Series "Supernatural". Literatura i Kultura Popularna 22: 101-9.
• Łuksza, A. 2016. Boy Melodrama: Genre Negotiations and Gender-Bending in the Supernatural Series. Text Matters, 6(1), 177-194. https://doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2016-0011

2015

• Benecchi, Eleonora. 2015. "Online Italian Fandoms of American TV Shows." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 19. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0586
• Blake, Linnie. 2015. All Hell Breaks Loose: Supernatural, Gothic Neo-Liberalism and the American Self. Horror Studies, 6: 225-238.
• Cornillon, Claire. 2015. "Previously on Supernatural." Revue française des sciences de l'information et de la communication: 7. http://journals.openedition.org/rfsic/1700
• Gonçalves, Diana. 2015. Popping (it) up: Popular Culture in Supernatural. Diffractions 4.
• Nam, Myoung Hee, and Eun-Soon You. 2015. "Case Study of Video Work Connecting with Fans: Supernatural the TV Series Making Full Use of Convention." Journal of Digital Contents Society 16: 145-55. https://doi.org/10.9728/dcs.2015.16.1.145
• Schultz, Matthew. 2015. "Teaching Multimodal Short Fiction: A Supernatural Gothic Tale." Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction, vol. 11/12: 60.
• van de Goor, Sophie Charlotte. 2015. "'You Must Be New Here': Reinforcing the Good Fan". Participations: International Journal of Audience Research 12(2): 275-295.

2014

• Brennan, Joseph. 2014. 'Fandom is full of pearl clutching old ladies': Nonnies in the online slash closet. International Journal of Cultural Studies 17: 363-380.
• Fuchs, Michael. 2014. 'It's like Groundhog Day': Remediation, Trauma, and Quantum Physics in Time Loop Narratives on Recent American Television. GRAAT On-Line: A Journal of Anglophone Studies 15: 93-113.
• Kienzl, Lisa, 2014. "You're My True Vessel": Knowledge and Digital Fan Culture Discussed on the Basis of Mediumship and Possession in Supernatural's Narrative and Fandom. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 3: 155-180.
• Torrey, K. T. 2014. Writing with the Winchesters: Metatextual Wincest and the provisional practice of happy ending. Journal of Fandom Studies 2: 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.2.2.163_1
• Valenzano III, Joseph. M. and Erika Engstrom. 2014. Cowboys, Angels, and Demons: American Exceptionalism and the Frontier Myth in the CW's Supernatural. Communication Quarterly, 62: 552-568.

2013

• Busse, Kristina. 2013. Geek hierarchies, boundary policing, and the gendering of the good fan. Participations: International Journal of Audience Research 10(1): 73-91.
• Howell, Charlotte E. 2013. The Gospel of the Winchesters (And Their Fans): Neoreligious Fan Practices and Narrative in Supernatural. Kinephanos 4:1.
• Schmidt, Lisa. 2013. "Television: Horror's 'Original' Home." Horror Studies 4: 159-171.
• Valenzano III, Joseph. M. and Erika Engstrom. 2013. "Homilies and Horsemen: Revelation in the CW's Supernatural." Journal of Communication & Religion, vol. 36: 50-72.

2012

• Fuchs, Michael. Hauntings: Uncanny Doubling in Alan Wake and Supernatural. Textus: English Studies in Italy 25: 63-74.
• Herzog, Alexandra. 2012. "'But this is my story and this is how I wanted to write it': Author's Notes as a Fannish Claim to Power in Fan Fiction Writing." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 11. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2012.0406
• Perez, Domino Renee. 2012. "The Politics of Taking: La Llorona in the Cultural Mainstream." Journal of Popular Culture 45: 153-172.
• Silva, Alyssa. 2012. Dean Winchester: An Existentialist Hero?/Dean Winchester: ¿Un héroe existencialista? Sesión no numerada: Revista de letras y ficción audiovisual 2: 67-83.

2011

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2010

• "Saving People, Hunting Things," edited by Catherine Tosenberger, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4.
  • Åström, Berit. 2010. "Let's get those Winchesters pregnant": Male pregnancy in Supernatural fan fiction. Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0135
  • Bruce, Melissa N. 2010. The Impala as negotiator of melodrama and masculinity in Supernatural. Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0154
  • Chan, Suzette. 2010. "Supernatural bodies: Writing subjugation and resistance onto Sam and Dean Winchester." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0179
  • Felschow, Laura E. 2010. "'Hey, check it out, there's actually fans': (Dis)empowerment and (Mis)representation of Cult Fandom in Supernatural." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0134
  • Flegel, Monica, and Jenny Roth. 2010. Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in Supernatural fan fiction. Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0133
  • Freund, Katharina. 2010. "'I'm glad we got burned, think of all the things we learned': Fandom conflict and context in Counteragent's 'Still Alive.'" Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0187.
  • Gray, Melissa. 2010. "From canon to fanon and back again: The epic journey of Supernatural and its fans." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0146
  • Noone, Kristin. 2010. "What are little ghouls made of? The Supernatural family, fandom, and the problem of Adam." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0136
  • Petersen, Line Nybro. 2010. Renegotiating religious imaginations through transformations of "banal religion" in Supernatural. Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0142
  • Schmidt, Lisa. 2010. Monstrous melodrama: Expanding the scope of melodramatic identification to interpret negative fan responses to Supernatural. Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0152
  • Sivarajan, Deepa. 2010. "Tlön, fandom, and source text: The effect of fan works on the narrative of Supernatural." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0171
  • Stein, Louisa Ellen. 2010. "What you don't know": Supernatural fan vids and millennial theology. Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0192
  • Tosenberger, Catherine. 2010. "Love! Valor! Supernatural!" [editorial]. Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0212
  • Tosenberger, Catherine. 2010. "Kinda like the folklore of its day": Supernatural, fairy tales, and ostension. Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0174
  • Wilkinson, Jules. 2010. "A box of mirrors, a unicorn, and a pony." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0159
  • Zarin, Babak. 2010. "Infernal redemption." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2010.0156
• Engstrom, Erika, and Joseph M. Valenzano, III. 2010. Demon hunters and hegemony: Portrayal of religion on the CW's Supernatural. Journal of Media and Religion 9: 67-83.
• McGuire, Ann and David Buchbinder. 2010. The Forensic Gothic: Knowledge, the Supernatural, and the Psychic Detective. Canadian Review of American Studies 40: 289-307.

2009

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2008

• Tosenberger, Catherine. 2008. "The epic love story of Sam and Dean": Supernatural, queer readings, and the romance of incestuous fan fiction. Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2008.030
• Wright, Julia M. 2008. "Latchkey hero: Masculinity, class, and the Gothic in Eric Kripke's Supernatural." Genders 47.

Unrefereed Manuscripts (i.e. Theses & Dissertations)

2020

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2019

• Anderson, Chrisha. 2019. Women in Online Science Fiction Fandoms: Perceived Impact on Psychological Well-Being. PhD Dissertation, Advanced Studies in Human Behavior, Capella University.
• Barone, Tessa. 2019. "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe." Honors College Thesis, Oregon State University. [1]
• Brala, Nikolina. 2019. "The Representation of Female Characters in the CW's Supernatural." Undergraduate Thesis, Department of English, University of Zadar, Croatia. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:162:892975
• Nenou, Stergiani. "The Representation of Fandom in Supernatural." Master's Program in English and American Studies. Master of Arts. Department of Philosophy School of English Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. n.d. http://ikee.lib.auth.gr/record/305389/files/GRI-2019-24432.pdf
• Trudeau, Cassidy. 2019. "Freedom to Fall: Milton's Christ, Supernatural's Castiel, and the Secularity of Choice." Undergraduate Research Awards, Hollins University. https://digitalcommons.hollins.edu/researchawards/52
• Takamäki, Topi. 2019. "The Road So Far": Supernatural as an American Road Narrative. MA Thesis, School of Marketing and Communication, University of Vaasa. https://osuva.uwasa.fi/handle/10024/9567

2018

• Cantrell, Jacquee D. 2018. "From Fan Fiction to Television: Slash Fan Fiction, the Fandom, and Affecting the Source Material." Honors Theses, Eastern Kentucky University. https://encompass.eku.edu/honors_theses/5177
• Chiu, W. [招詠琳]. 2018. The gender politics of supernatural : slash fan fictions and the power dynamic in fan/producers relationship. MA Thesis, Department of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/265871
• Golomb, Liorah. 2018. 'Let's Go Gank Ourselves a Paris Hilton' A Textual Analysis of the Dialogue of Supernatural (the First 10 Years). SHAREOK. https://hdl.handle.net/11244/317082
• Hatchell, Russ Eugene. 2018. Sci-fi TV in the Great White North: the development of Vancouver as a science fiction media capital. MA Thesis, Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/72746
• Johansson, Emelie. 2018. Up against Good, Evil, Destiny, and God himself. Bachelor Thesis, School of Humanities and Media Studies, Dalarna University. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27069
• Koehm, Diana. 2018. "Revision as Resistance: Fanfiction as an Empowering Community for Female and Queer Fans." Honors Scholar Theses, University of Connecticut. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses/604

2017

• Boulware, Taylor. 2017. "Fascination/Frustration: Slash Fandom, Genre, and Queer Uptake." PhD Dissertation, Department of English, University of Washington. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/40073
• Edwards, Elizabeth Rose. 2017. Brotherly Love: Remaking Homosociality and Masculinity in Fan Fiction. MA Thesis, Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture, York University-Ryerson University. http://hdl.handle.net/10315/33523
• Fuchs, Michael. 2016. "Supernatural's Showrunners, Creative Teams, and Fans: Television Authorship in the Age of Participatory Culture." Unpublished [accepted for Auteur TV, edited by Ralph Poole and Saskia Fürst. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017].
• McKay, Hattie 2017. "Comparing Themes in Supernatural and Left Behind," Relics, Remnants, and Religion: An Undergraduate Journal in Religious Studies: Vol. 2: Iss. 2, Article 8. https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/relics/vol2/iss2/8

2016

• Abrahamsson, Beatrice. 2016. "What, so genesis is a lie? Shocker.": en kvalitativ studie om banal religion i TV-serien Supernatural. Bachelor's thesis, Stockholm University. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:933938/FULLTEXT01.pdf
• Batchelor, Kimberly. 2016. "Free Will and the Diminishing Importance of God's Will: A Study of Paradise Lost and Supernatural." Honors Thesis, Department of English, University of Michigan.
• Klungnes, Kristina Mariell Dulsrud. 2016. "Driver Picks the Music" - Supernatural - A Journey With Music as Fuel. MA Thesis, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo. http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-54625
• Lietz, Michelle. 2016. "Cannibalism in Contact Narratives and the Evolution of the Wendigo." MA Thesis, Department of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University. http://commons.emich.edu/theses/671
• Tammentie, Bastian. 2016. "Fandom as an online support group: a case study of CW's Supernatural." Bachelor's thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Jyväskylä. https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/62954
• Salter, Anastasia. 2016. "It's Not Just Subtext: Constructing the Fangirl as Creator and Subject in Supernatural." In Selected Papers of Internet Research 16. Association of Internet Research. Phoenix, Arizona.
• Torrey KT and JSA Lowe. 2016. "Please Don't Tweet That: RPS and Resistance in Supernatural's Convergent Canon." In Selected Papers of Internet Research 16. Association of Internet Research. Phoenix, Arizona.
• Yerima, Adam Kem. 2016. "Saving Innocents: Tracing The Human Monster Hunter's Hetero-Normative Agenda From The 1970s To Today." PhD Dissertation, Department of English, Wayne State University. http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/1608

2015

• Bennett, Eve. 2015. "A Man's End of the World? Gender in Post-9/11 American Apocalyptic Television." PhD dissertation, De Montfort University. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/11439
• Brownfield, Kristi. 2015. "Veni, Vidi, Vids: Transforming Cultural Narratives Through the Art of Audiovisual Storytelling." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
• Collier, Cassandra M. 2015. "The Love That Refuses to Speak its Name: Examining Queerbaiting and Fan-Producer Interactions in Fan Cultures." MA Thesis, Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Louisville. http://dx.doi.org/10.18297/etd/2204
• Genovese, Megan. 2015. "Boys, Girls, and Monsters: Regulation of Normative Gender in Supernatural." Honors thesis, Baylor University. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/9354
• Karkanias, Alena. 2015. "And the (Fourth) Wall Came Tumbling Down: The Impact of Renegotiating Fan-Creator Relationships on Supernatural." Summer Research, University of Puget Sound. http://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/summer_research/248
• McCurdy, Shellie. 2015. De-Mystifying Fandom: An Ethnography of the World of Supernatural Fangirls. Senior Honors Thesis, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• McGinn, Irene B. 2015. When Becky met Chuck: How the breakdown of the fourth wall is affecting online fandom. MA Thesis, Department of Film and Television Studies, Dublin City University.
• Nordin, Emma. 2015. From Queer Reading to Queerbaiting: The Battle over the Polysemic Text and the Power of Hermeneutics. Master's thesis, Stockholm University. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:839802/fulltext01.pdf
• Straw, Amanda L. 2015. "Everybody Hurts: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Hurt/Comfort Fanfiction." MA Thesis, Department of American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg.

2014

• Holder, Laura L. 2014. "Common Christs: Christ Figures, American Christianity, and Sacrifice on Cult Television." PhD Dissertation, Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. https://search.proquest.com/openview/705ec356fef9737f7e92061e6876294c/
• Karkanias, Alena. 2014. "The Intra- and Inter-Sub-Community Dynamics of Fandom." Summer Research, University of Puget Sound. http://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/summer_research/230
• Leddy, Miranda B. 2014. "The women of Supernatural: more than stereotypes." MA Thesis, Department of American Studies, Baylor University. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/9173
• Martin, Anna. 2014. Writing the Star: Stardom, Fandom and Real Person Fanfiction. PhD dissertation, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University.
• Vermeer, Alicia Suzanne. 2014. "Searching for God: Portrayals of Religion on Television." MA Thesis, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa.http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4785
• Wickersham, Alexandra. 2014. "Mothers, Martyrs, Damsels, and Demons: Women in Western Horror from Romanticism to the Modern Age." ESSAI: Vol. 12, Article 36. http://dc.cod.edu/essai/vol12/iss1/36

2013

• Double, Krystalle. 2013. Female Roles and Fan Fiction in Charmed, Supernatural, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BA honors thesis, Western Michigan University.
• Fathallah, Judith. 2013. "Changing Discursive Formations from Supernatural: Fanfic and the Legitimation Paradox." PhD Dissertation, Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/58900
• Ireland, Brian. 2013. ""All I saw was evil": Supernatural's Reactionary Road Trip." American Studies Today: 14. http://www.americansc.org.uk/Online/Online_2013/Supernatural.html
• Lander, Katherine. 2013. "That's So Meta: Contemporary Reflexive Television and its Textual Strategies." MA Thesis, Department of Media and Cinema Studies, DePaul University. http://via.library.depaul.edu/cmnt/18
• Lausch, Kayti Adaire. 2013. "The Niche Network: Gender, Genre, and the CW Brand." MA Thesis, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22453
• Macklem, Lisa. 2013. "We're on This Road Together: The Changing Fan/Producer Relationship in Television as Demonstrated by Supernatural." MA Thesis, Department of Media Studies, University of Western Ontario. http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/1748

2012

• Costa, Sarah Moralejo da. 2012. Supernatural na web: produção e reprodução audiovisual em suporte convergente. 2012. 100 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89376
• Dubois, François-Ronan. 2012. "Le mythe herculéen dans trois séries américaines: Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer et The X-Files." e-LLA [revue liée à l'Université de Provence].

2011

• Burnell, Aaron. 2011. "Nobody's Darlings: Reading White Trash in Supernatural." MA Thesis, Bowling Green State University. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1305054871
• Dhalqvist, Ingeborg. 2011. "Competitive Talk and the Three Main Characters of Supernatural." Unpublished manuscript, Mälardalen University. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A511603&dswid=4389
• Geary, Ellen Louise. 2011. "A Critical Analysis of Modern Fan Cultures Attached to Television Texts and the Participatory Nature of Their Activities. With Specific Focus on the Fan Culture of Supernatural." BA Dissertation, Department of Media Studies, Nottingham Trent University.
• Hemmingson, Margaret L. 2011. Sex, Family, and the Home: Portrayals of Gender in the Domestic Sphere in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural. BA honors thesis, Elon University.
• Richard, Jordan. 2011. "On a Good Day, You Get to Kill a Whore: Narrative Misogyny and Female Audiences in Supernatural." MA Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Mississippi. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/245
• Tovar, Elisabeth. 2011. Supernatural 'small-town America' : errance hantée dans les vestiges de l'Amérique industrielle. Métropolitiques. http://metropolitiques.eu/Supernatural-small-town-America.html

2010

• Grobisen, Hannah. 2010. "The Winchester Gospel: The 'Supernatural' Fandom as a Religion." CMC Senior Theses, Intercollegiate Media Studies, Claremont Colleges. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2010/
• Hampton, Darlene Rose. 2010. "Beyond Resistance: Gender, Performance, and Fannish Practice in Digital Culture." PhD Dissertation, Department of English, University of Oregon. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11070
• Handley, Christine. 2010. "'Playthings in the Margins of Literature': Cultural Critique and Rewriting Ideologies in Supernatural and Star Wars Fanfiction." MA Thesis, Department of English, Dalhousie University. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13027
• Long, Britt Eira Nicole. 2010. "Wincest Wincest is the best, or, Raep is what happens when you say no: Subversive humor and serious business in 'Capslock_Spn'" MA Thesis, Department of English, University of California, Davis.

2009

• Boggs, April. 2009. "No Chick Flick Moments: 'Supernatural' as a Masculine Narrative." MA Thesis, Bowling Green State University. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1237564610
• Brennan, Joseph Carl Linden. 2009. "I Am Your Worst Fear, I Am Your Best Fantasy: New Approaches to Slash Fiction." Honours Thesis, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5872
• Hampton, Darlene Rose. 2010. "Beyond Resistance: Gender, Performance, and Fannish Practice in Digital Culture." PhD Dissertation, University of Oregon. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11070
• Straw, Amanda. 2009. "Squeeing, Flailing, and the 'Post-Jared-and-Jensen Glow': An Ethnography of Creation Entertainment's March 2009 'Salute to Supernatural' Conventions." Seminar paper.

2006

• Turner, Emily 2006. 'Scary just got sexy' The pleasure of transgression in the creative Supernatural fandom. Honours research project. School of Creative Arts. University of Melbourne.

Conference Presentations

A

• Abbot, Stacy. All Mirth and No Matter': The Comic Legacy of Angel from Supernatural to Much Ado about Nothing." Paper presented at SCW6: Much Ado About Whedon: The 6th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, California State University -- Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 19-22 June 2014.
• Aker, Laurena, Karla Truxall, Rachel Dean, and Galen Foresman. “Saving People: Supernatural and Social Issues.” Panel discussion at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.
• ___. and Kimberly Prior. “Sparking a Superfandom: Common Elements in the Twilight and Supernatural Success Stories.” Paper presentation at the 39th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.
• Al-Tabaa, Najwa and Katherine Shaffer. “The Apolitics of Supernatural: Trapped in Escapistland.” Paper presented at the 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 13-17, March 2019.
• Armstrong, Breanne. "Revisiting Representation: A Retrospective Analysis of Fan Reactions to Depictions of Fandom on Supernatural." Paper presented at the 32nd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 16-20, March 2011.
• Åström, Berit. “It Takes a Real Man to Have a Baby.” Paper presented at the Textual Echoes Symposium, Umeå, Sweden, February 11–13, 2010.
• ___. "Displacing the mother: Supernatural male pregnancy fan fiction." Paper presented at the 34th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 20-24, March 2013.]
• Ayers, Meredith. “Myth and Folklore vs. Hollywood in the Supernatural TV series.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.
• ___. “Supernatural: Season 1 and Urban Legends.” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.

B

• Barker, Cory. “Sam Girls and Dean Girls -- Anti-fan fans in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.
• Baughman, Linda. “I Broke-up with Supernatural: Pleasure, Pain, and Romantic Narratives.” Paper presented at the 2016 PCA/ACA National Conference, Seattle, WA, 22-25 March 2016.
• Benecchi, Eleonora. “Real power can’t be given. It must be taken: Exploring the interplay of power and control between fans and producers of a cult text through time and space.” Paper presented at the Fan Studies Network Conference. Regents University, London, UK, 26-28 September 2014.
• Bernhardt, Laura. “Blue-collar Kantians in a Fallen World: The Lessons of Moral Failure in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 35th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22, February 2014.
• ___. “Here’s Looking At You, Dean: Gaze as Character Development in the Directorial Work of Kim Manners on Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 37th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13, February 2016.
• Boehme, Tim. “Gods ... They’re Just Like Us!: Hardworking Hunters, Demons, and Deities in Supernatural and in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman.” Paper presented at the 2013 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, 11-13 October 2013.
• Boulware, Taylor. “’They Do Know We’re Brothers, Right?’: Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, and Male Homosocial Desire.” Paper presentation at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16, February 2013.
• Brecke, Anna. "Where Have All the Buffys Gone? Anti-feminist Backlash and Enlightened Sexism on Supernatural and Grimm." Paper presented at the 24th Annual Mid-Atlantic PCA/ACA Conference, Atlantic City, NJ, 7-9 November 2013.
• Broussard, Lydia and Adam Leader Smith. “’That Hell-Bitch is Practically Family!’: Supernatural as Masculine Soap Opera.” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.
• Bruce, Melissa. “The Threat of Homosocial Desire in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.
• ___. “Supernatural, Liminality, and Shifting Relationships.” Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.
• ___. "The Impala and Serenity: Representations of Gender through Maintenance in Supernatural and Firefly." Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.
• ___. “Questions of Home: Supernatural, Baby, and the Experience of Mobile Space.” Paper presentation at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• Burkhead, Cynthia. “Ned Beatty time, man:” the South as Demon in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.
• Burnett, Tamy L. "Martyred Mothers, Demon(ized) Mistresses, and Dead Female Friends: Visions of American Masculinities in Post-Grrrl Power Cult Television's Angel and Supernatural." Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.

C

• Chin, Bertha. 2015. ‘“Orlando Jones Needs to GTFO of Our Fandom”: Supernatural Conventions and Gate-Keeping’. Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Massey University, Wellington, June 29-July 1.
• Cole, Shannon. “The "Profound Bond" between Power and Pleasure: Fanservice in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.
• ___. and KT Torrey. “Fuck You, Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 26th Annual Mid-Atlantic PCA/ACA Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 5-7 November 2015.
• Collins, Margo. “’I’m a Posse Magnet’: Dean Winchester as Fanboy and the Metatextual Mediation of Fan Desire in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16, February 2013.
• Compora, Daniel. “Gothic, Folk, and Religious Traditions in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2015 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, 1-4 October 2015.
• Cornillon, Claire. “Previously on Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2015 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1-4 April 2015.
• Cross, Jennifer, Kate Lansky, Mark Oshiro, Anne Petersen, and Erin Tipton. “Problematic Tropes in and of Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.
• Currie, James Anding. "'I thought angels were supposed to be guardians...not dicks': Supernatural as a Symbol of Secular Humanism." Paper presented at the 34th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 20-24, March 2013.

D

• Davisson, Amber, Candace R. Benefiel, Courtney Neal, and Patrick Smith. “Panel: Hunting Things: Monsters in Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.
• de la Torre, Eluzabeth. “The Power to Prevent the Apocalypse in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16, February 2013.
• DelNero, Michael. “All too Human: Redeeming Life in Sanctuary and Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.
• Dessart, Jamie. “The World's Going to End Bloody": Teaching The Dresden Files and TV's Supernatural at a Christian College.” Paper presented at the 2015 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1-4 April 2015.
• D’mello, Geri. “The True-Fan Phenomenon: Supernatural’s Self-Censoring Fandom.” Paper presentation at the 37th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13, February 2016.
• Duncan, Alexis. “’I Can Dig Elvis’: Destiel and the Shipper’s Canon.” Paper presentation at the 37th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13, February 2016.

E

• Ebarb, Samantha. “Carry on My Wayward Fandom: An Exploration of Supernatural’s Marketing Strategies.” Paper presentation at the 39th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.
• England, Emma. “Fans as Biblical Critics: Pushing the Boundaries of Fan Studies.” Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.
• Escamilla, Marianita. “The Rise of the Nerd: The Need for Men of Letters in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 39th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.

F

• Felschow, Laura, Kristin Noone, Margaret Selinger, and Louisa Stein. “It Goes Both Ways: Fans and Producers.” Panel discussion at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.
• Fisher, Carlton. “Mother Mary On The Cross: Supernatural's Use of Matriarchal Imagery in Christian Religious Symbolism.” Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.
• Fowler, Charity. “Redemptive Resistance: Fan Videos and the Eroticization of the Brotherly Bond.” Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.
• Fox, Melissa Tyndall. "Ganking Peter Pan: How Sam and Dean Have ‘Full-on Swayze-d’ Generational Stereotypes.” Paper presentation at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16, February 2013.

G

• George, Susan A. “Drivin' Down the Highway: Supernatural, U.S. Car Culture, and the Masculinity of Dean Winchester.” Paper presented at the 35th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 19-23, March 2014.
• Giannini, Erin. “’There's nothing more dangerous than some a-hole who thinks he's on a holy mission’: Using and (Dis)-Abusing Religious and Economic Authority on Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.
• ___. “’This Isn’t Wall Street, this is Hell!’ Corporate America as the Biggest Bad of All.” Paper presentation at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16, February 2013.
• ___. “’Our Quality of Life Is Crap’: Supernatural, Roseanne, and the Horrors of Socioeconomic Erasure.” Paper presentation at the 36th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14, February 2015.
• ___, Mandy Taylor, Susan Nylander, Gina Hanson, and Elisa Urmston. “Music, Moves, and Moods: Musical Rhetoric and Narrativity in Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 36th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14, February 2015.
• ___, Mandy Taylor, Gina Hanson, Susan Nylander, and Elisa Urmston. “Rockin’ Down the Highway: The Music of Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 37th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13, February 2016.
• Gilbert, Anne. “Hate the Demon, Not the Woman it’s Inside: Audiences, Misogyny, and Supernatural.” Paper presented at Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, CA, 17-21 March 2010.
• Going, Mary. “My Brother’s Keeper: Examining the horror of Cain and Abel in CW’s Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 15th International Gothic Association Conference, Romeoville, IL, 30 July -- 2 August 2019.
• Goldmann, Julia Elena. “Theorizing Producer-Fan-Interaction: Supernatural and Richard Johnson’s Circuit of Culture.” Paper presented at the Fan Studies Network Conference. University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK, 28-29 June 2019.
• Gordon, Rebecca Stone. “Beyond salt and fire: the agency of human remains in the Supernatural Universe.” Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.
• ___, and Stephanie Flint. "Brotherly Love Will Keep Us Together: A Roundtable on Gender, Sexuality, Monstrosity, Metafiction, and More in the CW series Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 28th Annual Mid-Atlantic PCA/ACA Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 9-11 November 2017.
• Grace, Dominick and Lisa Macklem. “Following a Creator/Creating Followers: Authors/Audiences in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2019 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 17-20 April 2019.
• Grandprey, Heather. “Power of the People: Audience as Creator in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 35th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22, February 2014.
• Graves, Stephanie. "'Writing yourself into the story is one thing, but as a prophet? That's like M. Night level douchiness!': Supernatural, Self-referentiality, and the Triumph of the Meta." Paper presented at Popular Culture Association of the South Conference, New Orleans, LA, 5-8 October 2011.
• ___. "You're an affront to the balance of the universe': Sam and Dean Winchester as Grotesques." Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.
• ___. “The Queer Bait-and-Switch: Supernatural, Representation, and Queerbaiting.” Paper presentation at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• ___. “‘Put as much ‘sub’ into that ‘text’ as you possibly can’: Supernatural, Representation, and Queerbaiting.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association in the South, New Orleans, LA, 4-8 October 2018.
• Grosse, Patricia L. "Suffering Nuclear Reactors: Depictions of Soul from Plato to Supernatural." Paper presented at the 34th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 20-24, March 2013.
• ___. "Time Travel and Borrowed Faces: Theories of Time in Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Augustine." Paper presented at the 36th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 18-22 March 2015.
• ___. "Checking the Lore: Resurrection Narratives and Leaky Spaces in Plato and Supernatural." Paper presented at the 37th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 16-20, March 2016.
• ___. "Killing Fathers: Mythopoesis (not Mythology) in The Walking Dead and Supernatural." Paper presented at the 38th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 22-26, March 2017.

H

• Hansen, Regina. "Apocalypse as Family Feud: Theology and Sibling Rivalry in Season 5 of Supernatural." Paper presented at the 34th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 20-24, March 2013.
• Hanson, Gina. “Let Me Guess, Antiquers?: Technology, Heteronormativity, and Natural Domesticity in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 37th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13, February 2016.
• ___. “Nature, Technology, and Sexual Identity in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• Hardin, Carey. “Jumping the (Profit) Shark: The Political Economy of the Supernatural Fandom.” 17th Cultural Studies Association Conference. New Orleans, LA. 31 May 2019.
• Harvey, Kolby. “Mapping the Meta-Text: Fan/Creator Power Dynamics in the World of Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 35th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22, February 2014.
• Hellman-Lohr, Aisha. “Psychopaths? Heroes? Psychopathic Heroes?: A Study of Supernatural's Winchester Brothers.” Paper presentation at the 40th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 20-23 February 2019.
• Hensen, Ann-Kristin. “Your Truth, Not Mine: The Struggle of Supernatural(-Shippers).” Paper presented at the 2017 PCA/ACA National Conference, San Diego, CA, 12-16 April 2017.
• Holladay, Holly Willson. “Dare to Defy: Taste Cultures and the Legitimization of the CW.” Paper presented at the 2019 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 17-20 April 2019.
• Howell, Charlotte. “God, the Devil, and John Winchester: Failed Patriarchal Families on Supernatural.” Paper presented at Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, LA, 10-13 March 2011.
• ___. "The Gospel of the Winchesters (and Their Fans): Integration of Fan Discourse on Supernatural." Paper presented at the International Conference on Digital Religion, Boulder, CO, 12-15 January 2012.
• Howell, Linda. “Keep the Fourth Wall in Your Pants: Supernatural's Divinations on Voyeurism, Authorship, Celebrity, and the Non-Future of Network Television.” Paper presentation at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16, February 2013.
• ___. “Transgenred: Supernatural’s Transition from Horror/Fantasy to Soap Opera.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association in the South, Nashville, TN, 13-15 October 2016.

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J

• Jordan, Jennifer Lynn. “The Apocalypse Will Be Televised: The Book of Revelation, Medieval Apocalypticism and Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.

K

• Karkanias, Alena. “And the Fourth Wall Came Tumbling Down: Lessons from Supernatural's Renegotiation of Fan-Creator Relationships.” Paper presented at the 2016 PCA/ACA National Conference, Seattle, WA, 22-25 March 2016.
• Kies, Bridget. “The Monstrous Male Body: Panic, Possession, and Pregnancy in Supernatural and Its Fandom.” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.
• ___. "Lycans and Werewolves and Shifters, Oh My!: Gender- and Genre-Bending in Supernatural and Its Fandom.” Paper presentation at the 36th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14, February 2015.
• ___, Stephanie Graves, Rhonda Nicol, and Tina Maenpaa. “Men and Women: Gender in Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.
• Krassenstein, Stephanie. “Queering the Alpha Male Fantasy: Fandom's Solution to Supernatural's Problematic Masculinity.” Paper presented at the 2016 PCA/ACA National Conference, Seattle, WA, 22-25 March 2016.
• Kulzick, Kate, Jon Clarke. “Podcasting.” Workshop at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.

L

• Lackner, Eden Lee. "The Author, the Audience, and the Almighty: Supernatural's Chuck Shurley as Metatextual Mirror." Paper presented at the 39th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 14-18, March 2018.
• Larsen, Kathy, Mika Kennedy, Maureen Ryan, Leah Wilson, and Lynn Zubernis. “Writing about Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.
• Lewis, Megan. “The Dialogic Flow of Supernatural and Supernatural Fanfiction.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association in the South, Nashville, TN, 13-15 October 2016.
• Love, Jennifer. “No One's Wearing Me to the Prom: Supernatural's Sam and Dean Winchester as Existentialists.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.
• ___. "The Widely Distributed Version's Just For Tourists": Supernatural's Hunter Community as a Knowledge Network. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.
• ___. “You’ve Been Garthed: Garth and the Intersection of Narrative Structure and Characterization in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16, February 2013.
• ___. “Know When to Fold ‘Em: Rules, Process, and Persuasion in Supernatural’s ‘Pac-Man Fever.’ Paper presentation at the 35th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22, February 2014.
• ___. “No One Can Talk to a Horse: Transgressing Boundaries and Human-Animal Interactions in Supernatural‘s ‘Dog Dean Afternoon’.” Paper presentation at the 36th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14, February 2015.
• ___. “She’s Me: Charlie Bradbury, Subjectivity, and the Performance of Identity in Supernatural’s ‘There’s No Place Like Home’.” Paper presentation at the 37th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13, February 2016.
• ___. “A Little Extra Cushion: Fat and the Abject in Supernatural‘s ‘The Purge’ and Doctor Who’s ‘Partners in Crime’.” Paper presentation at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• ___.Love, Jennifer. “The Computer Told Me: Exploring Data Visualization as a Tool for Critical Analysis of Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 39th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.
• ___. “Ghost or Shady Real Estate Developer in a Mask?: “Scoobynatural,” Subjectivity, and the Theoretical Third Space.” Paper presentation at the 40th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 20-23 February 2019.
• Lowe, JSA. “We’ll Always Have Purgatory: Slashing Social Media Spaces and the Supernatural Fandom.” Paper presented at the 2015 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1-4 April 2015.
• ___. “Notational Erotics: Locating Female Desire in Supernatural Slash Fanfiction.” Paper presentation at the 36th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14, February 2015.
• ___. “John Winchester’s A+ Parenting: Fandom’s Symbolic Order and Semiotic Chora,” Paper presented at the 2016 PCA/ACA National Conference, Seattle, WA, 22-25 March 2016.
• ___. “Wayward Daughters, Drunk Prophets, and Fridged Hackers: The Transformative Labor of Supernatural’s Young Female Fandom” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, GA, 30 March -- 2 April 2016.
• Lykissas, Alexandra. “Greeking Out: Supernatural and Greek Mythology.” Paper presentation at the 35th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22, February 2014.
• ___. “Gothic Passions – Then and Now: A post-9/11 examination of the Gothic in the TV show Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 12th biennial conference of the International Gothic Association, Vancouver, BC, 28 July -- 1 August 2015.

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• Macklem, Lisa. "Revisiting Old Friends: Playing with Time in Supernatural." Paper presented at Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Toronto, Canada. June 6, 2009.
• ___. "The Apocalypse on a Budget: Supernatural's Family Affair." Paper presented at Mythcon, Dallas, TX, 9-12, July 2010.
• ___. “Weaving the Threads Together: Narrative Strategies in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.
• ___. “I See What You Did There: Supernatural and the Fourth Wall.” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.
• ___. "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Most Monstrous of All?: Supernatural's Monsters." Paper presented at the 33rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 21-25, March 2012.
• ___. "In It for the Long Haul: Showrunning Supernatural." Paper presented at the 34th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 20-24, March 2013.
• ___. "From Monstrous Mommies to Hunting Heroines: The Evolution of Women on Supernatural." Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Toronto, Ontario June 7-8, 2013.
• ___. "The Changing Face of Supernatural." Shapeshifters: Transformations, Hybridity, and Identity Inter-Disciplinary.net Athens, Greece November 1-3, 2013.
• ___. “Empire Under a Full Moon: Retro-Empire Building in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 35th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 19-23, March 2014.
• ___. "These Aren't the Gods You’re Looking For: Religion in Supernatural." WorldCon (Loncon 3): Academic Track Panel: Fanworks and the Law Chair: Fandom in Fiction London, UK August, 2014.
• ___. “Supernatural as Slasher.” A Celebration of Slashers, DePaul University, 28 April 2018.
• Maenpaa, Tina. “Supernatural’s Crowley: The Resurrection of the Vice Figure.” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.
• Magee, Sara. “It was Almost Like a Song: The Classic Rock Rhetoric of Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.
• Maitland, Sarah. “The Thinking Mind: Supernatural and the Miltonic Satan.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.
• Maloney-Mangold, Michelle. “Souls with Off-Switches and Monsters with Feelings Deconstructing the Human-Monster Dichotomy on the WB CW.” Paper presented at the 2014 PCA/ACA National Conference, Chicago, IL., 16-19 April 2014.
• ___, and Heba Esherief. “Television Is Good for the Soul Theorizing Humanity on the WB and CW Networks.” Paper presented at the 2014 PCA/ACA National Conference, Chicago, IL., 16-19 April 2014.
• Marra, Michael. "She Had Become Like They Are: Feminist Theory, the Fantastic, and Blue Öyster Cult." Paper presented at the 32nd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 16-20, March 2011.
• McCain, Katherine. “There’s a GIF For That: The Innovation of the Supernatural Fan-GIF.” Paper presentation at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• McClancy, Kathleen. “A Boy and His '67 Chevy Impala: Nostalgia, Americana and Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.
• McMasters, Wesley. “Supernatural and Supernatural: The Prophet Chuck, Balthazar, and Unavoidable Identity Issues.” Paper presentation at the 35th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22, February 2014.
• Morgan, Felix. “A Chaos Theory Analysis of Family Relationships in Supernatural." Paper presentation at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16, February 2013.
• Mulkey, Brittani. “’Carry on My Wayward Son’: Establishing Fraternity through Feminine Sacrifice in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 36th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14, February 2015.
• Mustafa, Jamil. "'You can't spell subtext without S-E-X': Supernatural, Gothic Intertextuality, and the Queer Uncanny." Paper presented at the 13th Conference of the International Gothic Association. Cholula, Mexico, 18-21, July 2017.

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• Nylander, Susan. “Life on the Road: Male Domesticity in Public Spaces.” Paper presentation at the 37th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13, February 2016.
• ___. “Bodily Integrity, Control, and Choice: The Many Traumas of Sam Winchester.” Paper presentation at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• ___, Mandy Taylor, and Gina Hanson. “Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll Never Forgets: The Music of Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• ___. “’That’s Just How I Roll’: Castiel Goes Mortal.” Paper presentation at the 39th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.

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• Oberhelman, David, Tamy Burnett, Janet Croft, Kristine Larsen, David Emerson, and Leslie Donovan. “’We’ll Hit Serious Research Mode!’: Libraries and Research Methods in Science Fiction and Fantasy.” Panel discussion at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• Oberlin, Kevin. “If Supernatural Becomes Its Own Mystery Spot, Will Anyone Be Able to Find It?” Paper presented at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March -- 3 April 2010.
• Oberlin, Molly. “The First Motel Listed in the Yellow Pages: Middle American Identity in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March -- 3 April 2010.
• Ormsby, Katherine. “Team Free Will Miltonic Appropriations in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2014 PCA/ACA National Conference, Chicago, IL., 16-19 April 2014.

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• Paeth, Scott, Kian Bergstrom, Anne Casey, Galen Foresman, and Shelby Mongan. “Morality and Religion in Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.
• Parish, Jeff. “Mosey on Up to the Fourth Wall and Lean a Spell: Intertextuality and Metafiction in ‘Frontierland’.” Paper presentation at the 39th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.
• Pena, Margaret. “You Can Take Sam and Dean Out of the Show, but You Can’t Take the Show Out of Dean and Sam: Analyzing the Effect of Metafiction within Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2019 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 17-20 April 2019.
• Peters, Ian, Gordon Dymowski, and Kate Kulzick. “What Came Before: Genre and Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.
• Petruska, Karen. "Crossing Over: Network Transition, Critical Reception and Supernatural Longevity." 9th Cultural Studies Association Conference. Chicago, IL. 25 March 2010.
• Plazonja, Dunja. “The Metanarrative Aspects of Supernatural: The Case of ‘The French Mistake’.” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.
• Potts, Kathleen. “Short Pleasures Are Often Long Regretted: Pamela Barnes in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• ___. “Pamela Barnes as Pastiche: Supernatural’s Rock Muse and Blind Seer.” Paper presentation at the 39th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.

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• Rajagopalan, Sudha. “Not Just Spooky: the collaborative aesthetics of Supernatural Fandom on *Runet (Russian-language internet).” School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, October 2009.
• Rasher, Sarah. “Hamlet and Prince Hal in a '67 Impala: Supernatural Adapts Shakespeare's Self-Reflexive Heroes.” Paper presented at the 2014 PCA/ACA National Conference, Chicago, IL., 16-19 April 2014.
• Raymond, Brynn. “’Gay Love Can Pierce through the Veil of Death and Save the Day’: Queer Intertextual Slippages and Failed Hegemonic Masculinity in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 36th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14, February 2015.
• Rincon, Guadalupe, Nicole Ivey, and Ricardo Ramirez. “Carry On My Wayward Sons: Supernatural and the Reconceputalization of Storytelling.” Paper presentation at the 35th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22, February 2014.
• ___. “God Has Left the Building: Angels in a Post-Derridian Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 36th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14, February 2015.
• Roberts, Heather. “’You wrote your own ending?:’ Supernatural's 200th Episode Celebrates the Fandom.” Paper presented at the 2016 PCA/ACA National Conference, Seattle, WA, 22-25 March 2016.
• Rose, Jonathan A. “Breaking the Scales: Refusal, Excess, and the Representation of Fat Male Bodies in Fanfiction.” Paper presented at the Fan Studies Network Conference. University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK, 28-29 June 2019.
• Rosen, Lugene. “Who's Your Daddy: Father Trumps Fate in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.
• ___. “Let It Bleed: Blood as Subversive Ritual and Symbol in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.
• ___. “From Blood-Sucker to Blood-Brother: Examining the Fictive Kinship between Dean and Benny in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16, February 2013.
• ___. “The World According to LARP: Live Action Role Playing as a Lifestyle in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 35th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22, February 2014.
• ___. “Love at First Geek: Extended Adolescence and Male Friendship as Exhibited by the Ghostfacers.” Paper presentation at the 36th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14, February 2015.
• ___. “Strange Magic: Zombies, Grief, and Magical Thinking in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 37th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13, February 2016.
• ___. “Imagine Me and You: Replacing Children’s Imaginary Companions with Real Beings in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• ___. “What’s the Lore?: Information Literacy in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 39th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.
• ___. "Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner: The Impala’s Narrative Point of View as a Neo-Noir Framing Device in the Episode, ‘Baby’.” Paper presentation at the 40th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 20-23 February 2019.
• Ryan, Maureen. "Television Criticism.” Workshop at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.

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• Salter, Anastasia. “It’s Not Just Subtext: Constructing the Fangirl as Creator and Subject in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, 21-24 October 2015.
• Saunders, Miah. "'Kick it in the ass': Supernatural, the Apocalypse, and Human Monstrosity." Paper presented at the 34th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 20-24, March 2013.
• Schwab, Roxanne. “’Mom’s Never Coming Back’: The Winchesters’ Search for Identity.” Paper presentation at the 36th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11-14, February 2015.
• ___. “The Ties that Bind . . . and Choke . . . and Suffocate: The Shifting Narcissistic Bonds Between Crowley and Rowena in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 37th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13, February 2016.
• Scott, Pauline. “Wayward Sons and Absent Fathers: Postfeminist Masculinities in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2015 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1-4 April 2015.
• Shreve-Smith, Penny. “Castiel and the Winchester Warrior Brotherhood.” Paper presentation at the 39th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.
• Soulliere, Danielle. “Male Sexuality at the Crossroads: Messing with the Heteronormative Script in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 27-30 March 2013.
• Spadoni, Robert. “The Machine in the Ghost: Writing Women in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 60th annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, WA, 13-17 March 2019.
• Spicer, Catie. Wincest and Destiel: Supernatural Ships That Just Won’t Sink. PCA/ACA National Conference, Seattle, WA., March 25, 2016.
• Stahle, Ashley. “’Family Don’t End In Blood,’ But It Sometimes Ends in Sacrifice: Exploring Dean Winchester’s Demon Deal through the Lens of Mimetic Theory.” Paper presentation at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• Straw, Amanda. “"Well, You Are Kind of Butch": Performances of Masculinity in Supernatural and its Gen Hurt/Comfort Fan Fiction.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 20-23 April 2011.

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• Taylor, Amanda and Susan Nylander. “Death Personified in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 35th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 19-22, February 2014.
• Taylor, Mandy. "’Love Me Some Pie’: Dean Winchester as Gourmand.” Paper presentation at the 37th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13, February 2016.
• ___. “The Worth of Souls: John Keats in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• ___. “’Because God Commanded It’: Warrior Castiel and (Transitions of) Faith.” Paper presentation at the 39th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.
• ___, Susan Nylander, Lynn Zubernis, Erin Giannini, Rebecca Stone, and Rebecca Lush. “Exploring Death in Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 39th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.
• ___, Susan Nylander, and Lynn Zubernis. “The Music of Supernatural: The Story in the Song.” Panel discussion at the 39th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 7-10 February 2018.
• ___, Susan Nylander, and Lynn Zubernis. “Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Winchesters: Supernatural in the Classroom.” Panel discussion at the 40th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 20-23 February 2019.
• ___, Susan Nylander, and Lynn Zubernis. "’I'm With the Band’: Supernatural Music on Tour.” Panel discussion at the 40th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 20-23 February 2019.
• ___, Susan Nylander, and Erin Giannini. “Fridging, Empowering, Othering: The Shifting Portrayal of Women in Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 40th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 20-23 February 2019.
• Thomas, Kayley. “The Monster at the End of this Book: Supernatural Mis(sed)readings, Narrative Stability, and Textual Authority.” Paper presented at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March -- 3 April 2010.
• Thompson, Robbie. “Writing Television.” Workshop at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.
• Torrey, KT. “He’s Best When He’s Bound and Gagged: Deleting Female Desire in 7.8 It’s Time For a Wedding.” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-11 February 2012.
• ___. He’s Best When He’s Bound and Gagged: Deleting Female Desire in Supernatural 7.8 “It’s Time For a Wedding.” Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.
• ___. "The [Little] Death of the Author: Producing Pleasure in Supernatural Slash Fic." International Association for Study of Popular Romance Conference. York, UK. September 27, 2012.
• ___. “Encomium on the Overlord: The Sophistic Fandom of Misha Collins.” Paper presentation at the 34th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 13-16, February 2013.
• ___. "'We're just . . . food and perverse entertainment': Supernatural's New Gods and the (Narrative) Objectification of Sam and Dean." Paper presented at the 34th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 20-24, March 2013.
• ___. and Shannon Cole. “I Used to Think Maybe You Loved Me (Now, Baby, I’m Sure): Charlie Bradbury and the Reconstruction of the Supernatural Fangirl.” Paper presented at the 25th Annual Mid-Atlantic PCA/ACA Conference, Baltimore, MD, 6-8 November 2014.
• ___. and Shannon Cole. '"I Used To Think Maybe You Loved Me (Now Baby I'm Sure): The Reconstruction of the Supernatural Fangirl." Paper presented at Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, Canada, 25-29 March 2015.
• ___. “I'm Gonna Need You To Unbuckle Your Belt: Screening for Seduction in Misha Collins' TSA America.” Paper presented at the 2015 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1-4 April 2015.
• ___, Thom Gaughan, Linda Howell, and Lisa Schmidt. “Hunting Things: Monsters in Supernatural Breaking the Fourth Wall: Meta Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.
• ___. and JSA Lowe. “Please Don’t Tweet That: RPS and Resistance in Supernatural’s Convergent Canon.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, 21-24 October 2015.
• ___. and Shannon Cole. “Fuck You, Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2016 PCA/ACA National Conference, Seattle, WA, 22-25 March 2016.
• Tushnet, Rebecca, Melissa Bruce, Monica Flegel, Lisa Macklem, Jen Roth, and Leah Wilson. “Exploring Fandom in Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.

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• Valle, Roselyn Perez. “The Physiognomies of the Devil in Lucifer and Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2019 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 17-20 April 2019.
• VanDellon, Wendy. “Supernatural: The Art of Telling a Multi-Layered Story.” Paper presented at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March -- 3 April 2010.
• Vist, Elise. 2016. “The Supernatural Family: Immersion and Play at Creation Entertainment Conventions.” Paper presented at the Fan Studies Network Conference. University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 25-26 June 2016.

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• Whaley, Katherine. “Supernatural Goes Looney: An Exploration of Comfort and the Uncanny in ‘Hunteri Heroici.’“ Paper presented at the 2013 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, 11-13 October 2013.
• Wicks, Rebecca. “Demons I Get, People Are Crazy: The Myth of Normalcy in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2011 Midwest PCA/ACA Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 14-16 October 2011.
• Wilhelm, Kelli. “Where’s the Pie?”: Nostalgic and Apocalyptic Foodways in Supernatural.” Paper presentation at the 38th Annual Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18, February 2017.
• Williams, Sandy. “Teaching Literature Supernaturally: Using Episodic Television to teach Literature and Critical Thinking.” Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.
• Williams, Sandy L. “From Becky Rosen to Charlie Bradbury with a stop at Fanfiction and other destinations: A look at the evolving portrayal and understanding of fandom in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2017 PCA/ACA National Conference, San Diego, CA, 12-16 April 2017.
• Willis-Rivera, Jennifer. “Blood, Bravado and Bromance: The Social Construction of Gender in Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2015 PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1-4 April 2015.
• Wilson, Kate, Allison Broesder, and Patricia Grosse. “Love, Death, and Codependence: The Family in Supernatural.” Panel discussion at the 3rd Annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference, 9 May 2015.

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• Xanthoudakis, Alexandra. “Mobilizing Minions: Fan Activism Efficacy in the Supernatural Fandom.” Paper presented at the Fan Studies Network Conference. University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK, 28-29 June 2019.
• ___. “'Let me get this straight': Supernatural’s No Homo Intern as Queerbaiting Coping Mechanism.” Paper presented at the 30th Annual Mid-Atlantic PCA/ACA Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 7-9, November 2019.

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• Zubernis, Lynn. "’Don't Ask, Don't Tell!’: Fan Shame in the Supernatural Fandom.” Paper presented at the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 31 March -- 3 April 2010.
• ___. “Fandom At The Crossroads: Fan/Producer Reciprocal Relationships.” Paper presented at the 2012 PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, 11-14 April 2012.
• ___. “Time For A What??: The Problematic Portrayal of the Fangirl on Supernatural.” Paper presented at the 2013 PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, DC, 27-30 March 2013.