Dr. Rukmini Pande

Books: 

• Pande, Rukmini (Under Contract). An Introduction to Media Fandom, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury. 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2018. Squee From The Margins: Fandom and Race. Fandom and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 

• Pande, Rukmini, ed. 2020. Fandom, Now In Color: A Collection of Voices. Fandom and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles: 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2024. “Do Not Fight Back, Fight Forward: An Analysis of Ted Lasso’s Approach to Systemic Race/Ism in the English Premier League.” The Journal of Popular Television 12 (Ted Lasso): 149–64. https://doi.org/10.1386/jptv_00121_1. 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2024. “Popular Culture.” The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, July, mbae007. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbae007. 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2024. “‘Get out of Here You Anti’: Historizing the Operation of Structural Racism in Media Fandom.” Feminist Media Histories 10 (1): 107–30. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2024.10.1.107. 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2020. “How (Not) to Talk about Race: A Critique of Methodological Practices in Fan Studies.” Transformative Works and Cultures 33 (June). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1737. 

• Pande, Rukmini, and Swati Moitra. 2017. “Yes, the Evil Queen Is Latina!: Racial Dynamics of Online Femslash Fandoms.” Edited by Julie Levin Russo and Eve Ng. Transformative Works and Cultures 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.0908. 

• Pande, Rukmini, and Samira Nadkarni. 2016. “I Will Tell Your Story: New Media Activism and the Indian Rape Crisis.” Journal of Feminist Scholarship 11. 

Book Chapters: 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2021. “Naming Whiteness: Interrogating Fan Studies Methodologies.” In A Fan Studies Primer, edited by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2020. “A Roundtable Discussion about the Cultures of Fandom on Tumblr with Flourish Klink, Rukmini Pande, Zina Hutton, and Lori Morimoto.” In A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, edited by Allison McCracken, Indira Neil Hoch, and Louisa Ellen Stein. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2019a. “I Protest! A Postcolonial Critique of Media Fan Activism in A Globalized World.” In Consumer Identities: Agency, Media and Digital Culture, 159–72. Bristol, UK: Intellect. 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2019b. “It’s Just a Joke! The Payoffs and Perils of Micro-Celebrity in India.” In Microcelebrity Around the Globe, edited by Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing. 

• Nadkarni, Samira, and Rukmini Pande. 2019. “Hannibal And The Cannibal: Tracking Colonial Imaginaries.” In Becoming: Essays on NBC’s Hannibal, edited by EJ Nielsen and Kavita Mundan Finn. Syracuse University Press. 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2018a. “‘I Went to India to Find Myself:’ Tracing World Cinema’s Neoliberal Orientalisms.” In The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism, edited by Christine Lundberg and Vassilios Ziakas. Oxford: Routledge. 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2018b. “‘Who Do You Mean by “Fan”?’ Decolonizing Media Fandom Identity.” In A Companion To Fandom and Fan Studies, edited by Paul Booth, 417–34. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2018c. ““You Do Realize The Lion King Is Set in Africa Right?’ Utilizing Fan Studies to Teach Race/Racism in the University Classroom.” In Fandom as Classroom Practice, edited by Katherine Anderson Howell. Fandom and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 

• Pande, Rukmini, and Cait Coker. 2018. “Not So Star-Spangled: Examining Race, Privilege, and Problems in MCU’s Captain America Fandom.” In The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction: Essays on Power, Consent and the Body, edited by Ashton Spacey, 97–115. North Carolina: McFarland. 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2016. “Squee From The Margins: Racial/Cultural/Ethnic Identity in Global Media Fandom.” In Seeing Fans, edited by Paul Booth and Lucy Bennett, 209–20. New York: Bloomsbury. 

• Pande, Rukmini, and Samira Nadkarni. 2013. “A Land Where Other People Live.” In Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, edited by Anne Jamison, 342–52. Dallas, Texas: BenBella Books, Inc. 

 Open Access Publications: 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2021. “Global Fandom: Rukmini Pande (India) — Pop Junctions.” Pop Junctions: Henry Jenkins. October 12, 2021. http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2021/9/12/global-fandom-rukmini-pande-india. 

• Pande, Rukmini. 2021. “Framing Fandom History: The Effects of Whiteness on Memorialization Rukmini Pande / O.P. Jindal Global University – Flow.” Flow: A Critical Forum and Media and Culture. October 16, 2021. https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/11/framing-fandom-history/. 

• Wanzo, Rebecca, and Rukmini Pande. 2018. “The State of Fandom Studies 2018: Rukmini Pande and Rebecca Wanzo.” Confessions of an Aca-Fan (blog). March 6, 2018. http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2018/3/1/the-state-of-fandom-studies-2018-rukmini-pande-and-rebecca-wanzo-part-1.
• Rukmini Pande. 2015. “Race and the Classroom: Resistant Fan Practices.” Media Commons: A Digital Scholarly Network (blog). April 9, 2015. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/question/how-can-fanfiction-studies-enrich-student-learning-classroom-and-within-their-own-reading-2 

Fandom Studies, Postcolonial Cybercultural Studies, Critical Race Studies, Digital Humanities, Popular Cultural Studies

• Introduction to Literary Studies
• Introduction to Transnational Cybercultures
• Introduction to Fandom Studies
• Adaptation Studies