Dr Nadine Leese

Bethan Jones is a Ph.D. candidate in fan studies at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University. Her thesis, which adopts Stuart Hall’s model of encoding/decoding to examine how viewers engage with television fiction and its portrayal of gender, is tentatively titled ‘The G Woman and the Fowl One: Fandom’s Rewriting of Gender in The X-Files’. Bethan has written on a range of topics relating to gender, fandom and digital media and has been published in the journals Participations and Transformative Works and Cultures. Her work has also appeared in Deborah Mutch’s The Modern Vampire and Human Identity, with forthcoming chapters in Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon and Fan CULTure: An Examination of Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century.