Buffy Scholar/Critic
Malin
Isaksson is research fellow of French at Umeå University, Sweden, where she
earned her Ph.D. (2004) with a dissertation on the representation of teenage
girls in contemporary French novels. She teaches French literature, gender
studies and fan fiction. Her research interests span contemporary French
literature, fan fiction, reception studies, gender and queer theory. In an
on-going project, “Tough Girls’ Love,” she analyzes femslash about strong
female characters from TV series, especially Buffy/Faith. She is also working on
a book about vampire fan fiction, with Dr. Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Umeå
University.
Isaksson is co-organizing the symposium Textual Echoes: Fan Fiction and Sexualities in Umeå, Sweden (11-13 February 2010) with the other members of the research group Cyber Echoes. Their website can be found at: http://www.mos.umu.se/forskning/cyberekon/
Her publications include:
”Quand les internautes rencontrent Buffy: la fan fiction sur l’amour entre femmes” (“Fan Fiction Reading Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Female Love Stories”), Nouvelles Questions Féministes vol. 28, no 1/2009, pp. 50-65.
Adolescentes abandonnées. Je
narrateur adolescent dans le roman français contemporain. (Abandoned
Adolescents. Teenaged I-narrators in Contemporary French Novels). Ph.
D. Diss. Umeå universitet: Skrifter från Moderna språk 16, 2004. http://www.diva-portal.org/