Acafan

Quick meaning: Acafan is a noun meaning (fandom slang) An academic who self-identifies as a member of fandom.

Meaning

(fandom slang) An academic who self-identifies as a member of fandom.

Example Sentences

Much as Jenkins positions himself as an 'academic fan' in his 1992 work on Star Trek fandom, I too consider myself an acafan in my study of slash.

In addition to author-fans, who use fiction to generate critiques and justify their fictions, there are acafans, whose work may return to earlier literary periods to show how the mechanisms of reading or writing fan fiction can illuminate classic texts.

Furthermore, this chapter calls for an acknowledgment of differences among groups of fans, especially between “acafen”—more advanced in age, highly educated, and dedicated to TV series as well as genres of popular literature—and “feral” fans like those engaged in harem fics derived from manga and anime.

When Paul Cornell wrote in Licence Denied that 'Thomas Noonan was the first New Fanboy' to use lit crit readings and terminologies, tracking fans' 'Analysis' of the show made sense, but by 2013 multiple generations of New Fanboys, Fangirls, acafans and fan-scholars have got in on the act, making such analysis far more dispersed, diverse and differentiated.

Word Forms

• acafans
• acafen
• aca-fan

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aca-fan, acafandom, aca-fandom, actifan, fanac, faaan.

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