Shannon Sauro on the transformative world of fandom and fanfiction
Drawing upon her experience as a fan and language educator, Shannon explains how being a fan is often unfairly derided. Using examples, Shannon shows that fandom and fanfiction can help foster creativity, skills development and self discovery.
About the speaker
Shannon Sauro is an applied linguist, researcher, teacher, runner, fan, and avid podcaster in the Sherlock Holmes fandom. She was born in Montreal, Canada, raised in the United States, and has been living in Malmö for the past three years, where she trains English teachers at Malmö University and carries out research on fanfiction and fandom activities for language and literary learning.
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Södra Förstadsgatan 18
Malmo, Skåne Sweden 21143
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Photographer Lenise Ormsby
Videographer César Ortiz
