Dr Charlotte Stevens
Charlotte is interested in media audiences and games. She co-leads the BCMCR Game Cultures research cluster. Her current research focuses on Chinese television: tomb-raiding dramas, remediation of video games in television programmes, and experiences of English-language audiences for Chinese television. She has previously published on videogame fan histories, 1980s television fanzines, and predatory kinaesthetics of drone-camera filming.
Areas of Expertise
- Television studies
- Fandom studies
- Audience studies
- Digital game studies
- Analogue game studies
- East Asian television
- Archival practice
- Adaptation
Qualifications
- PhD, Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick, UK (2015)
- MA, Communication & Culture, York University, Canada (2010)
- BA (Hons), Film (Cinema and Media Studies), York University, Canada (2008)
Memberships
- BAFTSS
- SCMS
- DiGRA
Teaching
- BA Media and Communication
- BA Film Studies
- BA Film and Screenwriting
- BA Filmmaking
- MA Media and Cultural Studies (past)
- PGR research supervision
Research
- Women and minority genders in fandom
- Queer and female fan producers
- Game studies
- History of film and video
- Global film and TV studies
- East Asian media cultures and digital culture
- Transmedia narrative and adaptation
Postgraduate Supervision
Charlotte welcomes PhD applications for projects about fandom, games, television, and film. She is particularly interested in supervising work that looks at East Asian media.
Current and former PGR project titles that she has supervised include:
- 鈥淎ll the Feels!鈥�: Music, Critique and Affects in Fanmade Music Videos. (completed 2022)
- We Call Them Idol: Globalisation, Transculturality, and Appropriation in Global K-Pop Fan Performance.
- A Very British Education: British Game Designers and the Influence of Schooling on Game Design.
- Relations of Power and Technology in Post-9/11 American Cinema.
- Nostalgia-play in Chilean gamer communities: An analysis of gamer practices as memory and its role in defining identity.
- Eat the Idols: Analysis of global culture consumption and the sexualisation of South Koreans within digital media.
Publications
Monograph
Stevens, E. Charlotte, Fanvids: Television, Women, and Home Media Re-Use. Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
Journal Articles
Stevens, E. Charlotte, and Nick Webber. 鈥楾he Fan-Historian.鈥� In 鈥楩andom Histories,鈥� edited by Philipp Dominik Keidl and Abby Waysdorf, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures 37 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2022.2125.
Stevens, E. Charlotte. 鈥樷�淩esearching Starsky and Hutch is exquisite torture鈥�: Letters about Television in 1980s Media Fanzines.鈥� Alphaville 20 (2020), 213-219. http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue20/HTML/DossierStevens.html
Stevens, E. Charlotte, and John Wyver. 鈥業ntermedial Relationships of Radio Features with Denis Mitchell鈥檚 and Philip Donnellan鈥檚 Early Television Documentaries.鈥� Media History, 24.2 (2018): 252-265.
Stevens, E. Charlotte, 鈥楥urating A Fan History of Vampires: 鈥淲hat We Vid in the Shadows鈥� at VidUKon 2016.鈥� Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 10.3 (2017): 263-275.
Stevens, E. Charlotte. 鈥楾o Watch Wonder Woman.鈥� In Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema at Forty. Commentary and Criticism, Feminist Media Studies 15.5 (2015): 900-903. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1075277
Stevens, E. Charlotte. 鈥楾elling the (Wrong) Story: The Disintegration of Transcultural Communication and Narrative in The Fall.鈥� CineAction 80 (2010): 30-37. https://archive.org/stream/CineAction.080/CineAction.080_djvu.txt
Book Sections: Published
Stevens, E. Charlotte, and Nick Webber. 鈥楾eaching with Fan Video.鈥� In The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship. Edited by Louisa Ellen Stein and Samantha Close. Routledge, 2025. 299-312.
Stevens, E. Charlotte. 鈥楥hinese (Pseudo)Archaeology on Television: A Daomu Biji Case Study.鈥� In The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Media in the 21st Century. Edited by Lorna-Jane Richardson, Andrew Reinhard, and Nicole Smith. Routledge, 2024. 90-103. 听
Stevens, E. Charlotte, and Zoe虉 Shacklock. 鈥楳onstrous Mobilities and Predatory Perspectives: Drone Shots and the Gaze of Monsters.鈥� In Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetics. Edited by Elisa Serafinelli. Palgrave Pivot, 2024. 39-49.
Stevens, E. Charlotte. 鈥楽hort Take 4: Materialities of Television History.鈥� In: Media Materialities: Form, Format, and Ephemeral Meaning. BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research. Edited by Iain A. Taylor and Oliver Carter. Intellect, 2023. 91-92.
Stevens, E. Charlotte. 鈥榁ideo Game Fanvids as Paratexts and as Texts.鈥� In (Not) in the Game: History, Paratexts, and Games. Edited by Regina Seiwald and Edwin Vollans. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. 119-135.
Stevens, E. Charlotte. 鈥楩anvids.鈥� In The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek. Edited by Leimar Garcia-Siino, Sabrina Mittermeier, Stefan Rabitsch. Routledge, 2022. 251-257.
Stevens, E. Charlotte. 鈥楬istorical Binge-Watching: Marathon Viewing on Videotape.鈥� In Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies. Edited by Mareike Jenner. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 23-39.
Bury, Rhiannon, and E. Charlotte Stevens. 鈥楤inge-Watching and Fandom: Conclusion.鈥� In Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies. Edited by Mareike Jenner. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 59-61.
Stevens, E. Charlotte. 鈥榁ideo Game to Streaming Series: The Case of Castlevania on Netflix.鈥� In Global TV Horror. Edited by Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott. University of Wales Press, 2021. 197-212.
Stevens, E. Charlotte, and John Wyver. 鈥業ntermedial Relationships of Radio Features with Denis Mitchell鈥檚 and Philip Donnellan鈥檚 Early Television Documentaries.鈥� In Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC, edited by Aasiya Lodhi, Amanda Wrigley. Routledge, 2020. 252-265.
Webber, Nick, and E. Charlotte Stevens. 鈥楬istory, Fandom, and Online Game Communities.鈥� In Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian. Edited by Alexander von Lu虉nen, Katherine J. Lewis, Benjamin Litherland, Pat Cullum. Routledge, 2020. 189-203.
Stevens, E. Charlotte. 鈥極n Vidding: The Home Media Archive and Vernacular Historiography.鈥� In Cult Media: Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored. Edited by Jonathan Wroot and Andy Willis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 143-159.
Stevens, E. Charlotte. 鈥楾he Popular Electronic: Doctor Who and the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop.鈥� In Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Edited by Melissa Beattie, Ross P. Garner, and Una McCormack. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. 172-182.
Book Sections: Forthcoming
Stevens, E. Charlotte. 鈥楬aters Gonna Hate: Fanvid Adaptations of Slings & Arrows Villains.鈥� In Slings & Arrows: Performing Shakespeare as Canada. Edited by Kailin Wright and Don Moore. University of Toronto Press, in press. https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487507725
Stevens, E. Charlotte, and Llin. 鈥榁idshow Curation, Community, and the Aesthetic Boundary-Work of Fan Conventions.鈥� In Alternativity in Media and Cultural Research. BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research. Edited by Asya Draganova and E. Charlotte Stevens. Intellect, in review.
Stevens, E. Charlotte, and Sharon Kong-Perring. 鈥楾he Vampire 鈥楥oncept鈥� in Korean Idol Performance.鈥� In 鈥淲hat Music They Make鈥�: Critical Analysis of Vampire-Related Music Videos. Edited by Simon Bacon. Lexington Books, in review.