Katarina O'Dette

Contact

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

Research Summary

Current Status

PhD (full-time)

Research Topic

Contested Genre: Conflicting Genre Discourses on American Fantasy Television

Research Summary

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

Research Interests

• Genre Theory
• Media Industry Studies
• Fantasy Theory
• Promotional Industries
• Online TV

Research Supervisors

• Dr Liz Evans
• Prof Roberta Pearson

Primary Funding Source

Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship for Research Excellence (International)

Administrative Experience

• Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research, Editor-in-Chief, 2022 - present
• Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations Organising Committee, 2017 - present
• CYMERA Academic Strand Curator, 2019

Teaching Experience

• Guest Seminar Leader, 'Fantastic Texts and Where to Find Them,' June 2021 - present
• Teaching Affiliate, 'Understanding Cultural Industries,' University of Nottingham, September 2019 - January 2020
• Guest Seminar Leader, 'Fantasy Across Media,' University of Glasgow, February 2018 - present

Conference Papers & Presentations

• The Contested Genre: Conflicting Genre Discourses on American Fantasy Television, Symposium on Fantasy and the Fantastic, Glasgow, May 2019
• Hanging Lampshades on Emotional Vampires: Anti-Escapist Techniques of American Fantasy Television, Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations, Glasgow, April 2018

Recent Publications

• KATARINA O'DETTE, 2021. Fantasy Worlds on the Small Screen: Worldbuilding in Original American Fantasy Television Extrapolation. 62(1), 37-62
• Heroic Mediocrity: Xander Harris and the Civil Heroism of the Ordinary in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies. 16(1),
• Chasing Canon in J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World: Towards a Poetics of Reception of Transmedia Storyworlds Fantastika Journal. 2(1), 81-94
• Holy Motherforking Shirtballs: The Retrospective Hilarity of the Afterlife [Review of The Good Place] Fantastika Journal. 3(1), 179-182

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• KATARINA O'DETTE, 2021. Fantasy Worlds on the Small Screen: Worldbuilding in Original American Fantasy Television Extrapolation. 62(1), 37-62
• Heroic Mediocrity: Xander Harris and the Civil Heroism of the Ordinary in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies. 16(1),
• Chasing Canon in J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World: Towards a Poetics of Reception of Transmedia Storyworlds Fantastika Journal. 2(1), 81-94
• Holy Motherforking Shirtballs: The Retrospective Hilarity of the Afterlife [Review of The Good Place] Fantastika Journal. 3(1), 179-182
• Yesterday’s Tyrant: Evolving Evil in Fantasy Television’s Reformed Villains. In: A Shadow Within: Evil in Fantasy and Science Fiction Academia Lunare. 210-230 (In Press.)