# Fan studies > Fan studies is an academic discipline that analyses fans, fandoms, fan cultures and fan activities, including fanworks. It is an interdisciplinary field located at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences, which emerged in the early 1990s as a separate discipline, and draws particularly on audience studies and cultural studies.[^1] - [[Fandom]] - [[Fanfiction]] - [[Slash (Fiction)]] - [[Omegaverse]] - [[Tropes]] --- > Fan studies is an incredibly multi-inter-para-disciplinary field. We come from fields ranging from cultural studies to law, sociology to library science. We each bring unique perspectives, theories, theorists, methods, methodologies, epistemologies, and ontologies. We are theoretically and methodologically eclectic.[^2] --- ## Best Practice [[2025-0310. Best practise, in Fan Studies, encourages the protection of individual fans and fan authors.|'… in line with Fan Studies best practice and to protect the privacy of individual fans and fan authors, I have not provided complete URLs for fan works.']][^3] --- ## External resources - [Transformative Works and Cultures (Journal)](https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/index) [^1]: ‘Fan studies’, *Wikipedia*, updated 13 December 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_studies. [^2]: Julia E. Largent, et al., ‘Toward some fanons of fan studies’, *Transformative Works and Cultures*, no. 33 (15 June 2020), n.p., https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2013/2549. [^3]: Milena Popova, ‘[[Popova. ‘“Dogfuck Rapeworld”_ Omegaverse Fanfiction as a Critical Tool in Analyzing the Impact of Social Power Structures on Intimate Relationships and Sexual Consent’, 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* 5, no. 2 (3 April 2018), p. 183.