Kristina Busse

As a board member of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), Busse collaborated with Hellekson to establish the Transformative Works and Cultures academic journal through the OTW. They came to the idea of an academic fan studies journal after witnessing discussions for Archive of Our Own, a fanfiction archive. Together, they found an open-access platform to share their records and picked an editorial board to oversee their research papers prior to print. Busse continued her research into fandom communities and published her second book with Louisa Stein in 2012 titled Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom. Similar to her first book, this was a collection of essays examining the cultural intersections and fan traditions surrounding the Sherlock Holmes fandom.

Upon joining the faculty in the Philosophy department at the University of South Alabama (USA), Busse published her first co-edited book with Karen Hellekson titled Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. The book was a collection of essays on the topic of fan fiction; such as fan culture, fanfiction communities, and fan experiences. Alongside fandom academics Alexis Lothian and Robin Anne Reid, she coined the term "queer female space" in 2007 to describe the construction of a “fannish fantasy space as a place where women can experiment and explore” within slash fan communities on Livejournal.

Kristina Dorothea Busse (born November 29, 1967) is a professor in the Philosophy department at the University of South Alabama. As the co-editor of Transformative Works and Cultures, her research focuses on fanfiction communities and fan culture. Alongside fandom academics Alexis Lothian and Robin Anne Reid, she coined the term "queer female space" in 2007.

Busse was born on November 29, 1967. She earned her diploma and intermediate examination at the University of Mainz in Germany before travelling to the United States to complete her graduate degrees at Tulane University.