Katarina O'Dette

Contact

• workRoom B29c Trent Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Katarina.ODette@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Katarina O'Dette (she/her) is Teaching Associate in Film & Screen Studies at the University of Nottingham. She serves as production editor for Forum for Modern Language Studies and production assistant for Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. Her research can be found in Extrapolation, Fantastika Journal, Slayage, and A Shadow Within: Evil in Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Expertise Summary

• Media Industry Studies
• Genre Studies
• Fantasy Television
• Online TV
• Creative Labour
• Promotional Industries
• Digital Humanities

Teaching Summary

My current teaching includes:

• CULT1026/1027: Producing Film and Television
• CULT2008: Transnational Media (convenor)
• CULT3024: Dissertation
• CULT4031: Development and Production
• CULT4033: Audiences and Consumption (convenor)

Research Summary

My research examines fantasy television as a contested genre, analysing the conflicting discourses generated about fantasy's definition and generic status by different stakeholders according to their… read more

Recent Publications

• KATARINA O'DETTE, 2021. Fantasy Worlds on the Small Screen: Worldbuilding in Original American Fantasy Television Extrapolation. 62(1), 37–62
• KATARINA O'DETTE, 2019. Yesterday’s Tyrant: Evolving Evil in Fantasy Television’s Reformed Villains. In: FRANCESCA T BARBINI, ed., A Shadow Within: Evil in Fantasy and Science Fiction Luna Press. 210–230
• KATARINA O'DETTE, 2018. Heroic Mediocrity: Xander Harris and the Civil Heroism of the Ordinary in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies. 16(1),
• KATARINA O'DETTE, 2018. Chasing Canon in J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World: Towards a Poetics of Reception of Transmedia Storyworlds Fantastika Journal. 2(1), 81–94

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Current Research

My research examines fantasy television as a contested genre, analysing the conflicting discourses generated about fantasy's definition and generic status by different stakeholders according to their professional investments in genre. The project focuses on channels, creators, and Over-the-Top streaming services as genre stakeholders in the United States post-2000, and explores how the contestation created by stakeholder disagreements shapes our understanding of genre.

• KATARINA O'DETTE, 2021. Fantasy Worlds on the Small Screen: Worldbuilding in Original American Fantasy Television Extrapolation. 62(1), 37–62
• KATARINA O'DETTE, 2019. Yesterday’s Tyrant: Evolving Evil in Fantasy Television’s Reformed Villains. In: FRANCESCA T BARBINI, ed., A Shadow Within: Evil in Fantasy and Science Fiction Luna Press. 210–230
• KATARINA O'DETTE, 2018. Heroic Mediocrity: Xander Harris and the Civil Heroism of the Ordinary in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies. 16(1),
• KATARINA O'DETTE, 2018. Chasing Canon in J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World: Towards a Poetics of Reception of Transmedia Storyworlds Fantastika Journal. 2(1), 81–94