This month on Amplified, we sit down with Dr. Parinita Shetty, the freshly minted Doctor of Education behind Marginally Fannish, a podcast and PhD thesis exploring intersectionality in online fandom. We talk about imposter syndrome and explore how fan podcasts act as sites of public pedagogy by providing a social learning context in informal digital spaces. 

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Guest Bio:

Parinita Shetty has worked with young people and children’s books in India in various ways – as an author, a bookseller in a children’s bookshop, a reading programme developer, and a coordinator of a children’s literature festival. She completed her M.Ed in Children’s Literature and Literacies at the University of Glasgow in 2017. She passed her PhD in Education viva at the University of Leeds in June 2022. She launched a PhD podcast called Marginally Fannish to research intersectionality and public pedagogy in fan podcasts. She is passionate about co-creating knowledge, including diverse voices in her research, and making academic research as accessible as possible to non-academic audiences in creative ways. She should currently be planning Season 2 of her fan podcast but is probably watching Doctor Who.

Resources Mentioned:

Marginally Fannish - https://marginallyfannish.org/

Burdick, J., & Sandlin, J. A. (2010). Inquiry as Answerability: Toward a Methodology of Discomfort in Researching Critical Public Pedagogies. Qualitative Inquiry, 16(5), 349–360. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1177/1077800409358878

Episode with intersectionality discussion mentioned: https://marginallyfannish.org/2020/01/30/episode-1-more-inclusive-the-journey-of-three-indian-fangirls/

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Intro + Outro Theme Music: Pxl Cray – Blue Dot Studios (2016)

Written and produced by: Stacey Copeland

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