Anne Kustritz is an Associate Professor in Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. Her work deals with creative fan communities, transformative works, digital economies, and representational politics.  She is the author of Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction: Pocket Publics, which documents the digital transition of the slash fan fiction community around the turn of the millennium and the “pockets” of counterpublic space they constructed for the circulation of new forms of gender, sexuality, and relationality.  Her articles appear in Camera Obscura, Feminist Media Studies, The Journal of American Culture, and Sexualities.  She serves on the editorial board of the journal Transformative Works and Cultures, an open-source, peer-reviewed on-line academic journal affiliated with the non-profit Organization for Transformative Works which offers fans legal, social, and technological resources to organize, preserve their history, and promote the legality of transformative works.  Her current work includes a close reading of board games’ representation of populations, a critical examination of eugenic ideologies, and a media ethnography exploring the “financial storytelling” practices around YouTube labor.