Introductions

[damned_colonial]

Please feel free to introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your interest in this community.

Speaking for myself... I identify as a fan and as an amateur history nerd. Most of my fandoms -- at least, those that I am most deeply involved in -- are historical fandoms, and I enjoy learning and thinking about the history of the periods in which they are set. When it comes to history, I lean most towards social history, especially women's history and queer history, and I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between Britain and its colonies during the colonial period. As far as Sherlock Holmes is concerned, I read the books and enjoyed them years ago but didn't fall head-first into the fandom until the 2009 movie came out. Since then I have been immersing myself in reading every related thing I can find, especially about homosexual subculture in late-Victorian London. (Previously, my main historical fandoms centred around the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.) I don't have an academic background but I enjoy reading and discussing scholarly texts with smart, interested people, and I'm hoping this community will give me more opportunities to do that.

Comments

[starlady]

Intro!

To borrow damned_colonial's format somewhat, I am a fan and a soon-to-be graduate student in history; my interests in both are all over the media and map, though my scholarly interests center around the state in society and the construction of empire and its subjectivities, both ancient and modern. In practice I tend to focus on modern Japan and northeast Asia and also on ancient Europe (Greece and Rome): I took my undergraduate degree in classics and in Asian studies.

But I have been fascinated by British history in particular as something of a hobby for years; I first read the Sherlock Holmes books at the age of about eight, and then became rapidly enthralled with the fandom after the 2009 movie. So I am very much hopeful that this community will expose me to more of the histories that I don't know.

[lotesse]

How did I not know you did Asian studies? Anyway - yeah, this is going to be fun!

[starlady]

Hah, I don't know! But, yes, Asian studies. Really I should say East Asian studies, because what I know about South and Southeast Asia would fit in a thimble (with the exception of Clifford Geertz' book on the theater state in pre-colonial Bali), but my diploma says Asian studies because my department holds out hope of being able to expand sometime, maybe, in the next 20 years or so.

I'm excited!

[geeksdoitbetter]

eeEEeE

is your icon from the most recent Alice?

[starlady]

*looks* um...I don't think so. It's by iconomicon; he does use a lot of movie stills though, so it's possible.