acafan

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  An academic who self-identifies as a member of fandom.
 * 2) * 2014, The Fan Fiction Studies Reader (Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), University of Iowa Press (2014), ISBN 9781609382278, page 23:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2014, Bethan Jones, "Normal Female Interest in Vampires and Werewolves Bonking: Slash and the Reconstruction of Meaning", in Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon (Wickham Clayton & Sarah Harman), I. B. Tauris & Co. (2014), ISBN 9781780766669, page 188:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2014, Bethan Jones, "Normal Female Interest in Vampires and Werewolves Bonking: Slash and the Reconstruction of Meaning", in Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon (Wickham Clayton & Sarah Harman), I. B. Tauris & Co. (2014), ISBN 9781780766669, page 188:
 * 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.