Geek Week: A Pop Culture, Gaming, Young Adult and Children's Literature, and Fanfiction Event at UFRJ with A Significant Academic Impact in Brazil

Geek Week: A Pop Culture, Gaming, Young Adult and Children's Literature, and Fanfiction Event at UFRJ with A Significant Academic Impact in Brazil

This piece provides a summary of the academic event Geek Week in Brazil, which was a collaboration between the research groups NEPF² (​Fans and Fanfic Studies and Research Group), NuPNE (Electronic Narrative Research Center), and NUPLIJ (Center for Research in Children's and Youth Literature). The primary objective of Geek Week was to establish a safe and engaging space for intellectual discussions on topics related to pop culture, gaming, young adult and children's literature, and fanfiction. The event encouraged not only the academic research groups to share their perspectives but also provided an open forum for attendees to actively engage in discourse about widely consumed cultural phenomena.

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NEPF Promotes a Bridge Between Fanfiction Academic Studies and Fandom in Brazil

NEPF Promotes a Bridge Between Fanfiction Academic Studies and Fandom in Brazil

In Brazil, NEPF is the only academic space dedicated to fanfic research, and, because of this, it has become extremely important for many graduate students and researchers around Brazil. So, readers of Pop Junctions, we're here to share all the work we’ve done at NEPF with you. From now on, you’ll be able to follow the various academic and artistic productions carried out and disseminated by the center through regular publications here. For all of us at the center, it's an honor to be here showing our work in such a prestigious and important space for Fan Studies.

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