Fandom Dissertation Help

[equmj]

I'm doing my dissertation on slash fan fiction and I'd like to talk 
to people from a number of fan fiction backgrounds including gen and 
het.  I can do interviews via e-mail, AIM, phone, and in person (I'll 
be in Minneapolis, Ottawa, Toronto, Chicago, Grand Rapids, and Ann 
Arbor in the next few months).  If you're interested please respond 
off list by sending me an e-mail to let me know how you'd like to be 
contacted.  I'd be happy to provide further details on my background 
and the particulars of my research on this project thus far.
 
In more formal language:
Would you be interested in participating in research on slash fan 
fiction?  My name is Anne Kustritz.  I am a graduate student at the 
University of Michigan.  I am studying slash and the community 
activities which have formed around these texts by observing and 
participating in convention activities and on-line slash 
communities.  I'd like to ask you some questions about your 
experiences in this community.  Please feel free to skip a question 
or to end our correspondence at any time if you wish to do so.  
Stopping or skipping questions in no way affects your relationship 
with me or with the university.  The data that I am collecting may be 
used as a part of my future research papers, proposals, essays, or a 
book or dissertation.  You may choose to be identified in these 
publications by a pseudonym of your choosing, or you may choose to 
not be quoted in publication, meaning that your comments will add to 
my general understanding of the community but will never be directly 
quoted or identified.  I would be happy to answer any questions or 
respond to any comments that you may have now or in the future, at 
any time during our correspondence or afterwards.  It is my 
understanding that slash fan fiction circulates in an adult 
community; I am only looking for participants over the age of 18.  
You can contact me by e-mail at EQMJ at aol.com.  If you have any other 
concerns about my research or your experience as a participant, feel 
free to contact Kate Keever at the University of Michigan I R B 
office for the protection of human subjects at 1040 Fleming 
Administration Building, 503 Thompson Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-
1340, by phone at 734 936-0933, or by e-mail at irbhsbs at umich.edu.
 
Thanks!
Anne/Equanimity
EQMJ at aol.com
akustrit at umich.edu