Academic Books and Articles
From Super-wiki
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
Contents
Books
- Some of us really do watch for the plot was published in 2007 through Cafe Press and was the first collection of meta on Supernatural
- In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural
- The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons and Ghouls
- The Mythology Of Supernatural
- TV Goes To Hell
- Fandom At The Crossroads
- Television, Religion and Supernatural
- Supernatural and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Monsters... for Idjits
- Fan Phenomena: Supernatural
- Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls
- Supernatural, Humanity, and the Soul
- Death in Supernatural
- Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (contains a chapter on Supernatural fanfic)
- Millenial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age by Louisa Ellen Stein includes a chapter on Misha Collins entitled "Misha Collins and the Power of Decentered Authorship."
- Crossing Fandoms: SuperWhoLock and the Contemporary Fan Audience] by Paul Booth (pdf download at link).
- Men with stakes: Masculinity and the Gothic in US Television. Wright, Julia M. 2016. Manchester University Press.
- TIME LORDS & TRIBBLES, WINCHESTERS & MUGGLES: THE DEPAUL POP CULTURE CONFERENCE (2017) Various Essays including Supernatural: Aker, Laurena. "Saving People: Supernatural and Social Issues." Booth, Paul and Isabella Menichiello. Time Lords & Tribbles, Winchesters & Muggles: The DePaul Pop Culture Conference A Five Year Retrospective. 117-120. AND Broesder, Allison. "The Family in Supernatural." Booth, Paul and Isabella Menichiello. 124-128. ISBN 978-1-36-607187-3.
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.
- 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.