Tanya Erzen is an associate professor of comparative
religious studies at Ohio State University. Her work has appeared
in the Nation, the Boston Globe, and the
Washington Post. She is the author of Straight to Jesus-
Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement, which
won the Gustave O. Arlt Award and the Ruth Benedict Prize.She is a
recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and
a visiting scholar at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the
University of Washington. She lives in Seattle.
"A thought-provoking and entertaining take on the Twilight
phenomenon."
--Publishers Weekly "Tanya Erzen ventures into 'the Twilight
zone' in this compelling and ultimately sympathetic foray into fan
culture, exploring the appeal of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books
and movies in a postfeminist age. Erzen argues that what fans
do with a text is as important as, or even more important
than, the text itself. Part Cinderella Ate My Daughter and
part Reviving Ophelia, Erzen's book is my own personal brand
of heroin."
--Jana Riess, author of What Would Buffy Do? and Flunking
Sainthood "Tanya Erzen's Fanpire provides a much-needed
portrait of the girls and women who love Twilight. From how the
series appeals to girls' and women's ideas of pleasure, power, and
romance to the ways in which the love of these books has forged
communities and friendships among women, Erzen's window onto these
subjects is both sympathetic and critical. Fanpire is sure
to fascinate and, at times, trouble anyone interested in the lives
of girls and women today."
--Donna Freitas, author of Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality,
Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College
Campuses "In this carefully researched and insightful account
of Twilighters, TwiMoms, WussPerv writers, and other participants
in the Twilight universe, Tanya Erzen explores the complicated
waterways of Twilight fandom. Listening and engaging with fans of
all ages, Erzen's account of the Twilight empire and the girls and
women who love it opens up new ways of thinking about the gendered
dimensions of romance, the persistence of the genre among female
fans, and the perils and potential of online and offline female
fandom."
--Carol Stabile, author of White Victims, Black Villains:
Gender, Race, and Crime News in US Culture "The Twilight
phenomenon is too vast and strange to be ignored. Tanya Erzen digs
deep into the fandom and finds the confused, the grasping, and even
the self-assured among them. It's always odd, like a horror book
should be, but never boring."
--Amanda Marcotte, author of It's a Jungle Out There
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