Melissa A. Click

Dr. Melissa A. Click's research interests center on popular culture texts and audiences, particularly texts and audiences disdained in mainstream culture. Her work in this area is guided by audience studies; theories of gender, race, and sexuality; and media literacy. Recent research projects involve NFL fans, the impact of social media in fans’ relationships with celebrities, negative emotions and fandom, and the inevitable changes fans experience in their fandom over time.

Her scholarship has been published in Television & New Media, Communication, Culture & Critique, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Men & Masculinities, Popular Communication, Popular Music & Society, and Transformative Works & Cultures.

She is the editor of Dislike, Hate, and Anti-fandom in the Digital Age (NYU, 2019) and the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (2018) and Bitten by Twilight (Peter Lang, 2010).