Mel Stanfill is assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Texts and Technology Program and the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. Stanfill’s work examines social media, whiteness, interfaces, media industries, fan studies, and queer theory, and has appeared in New Media and Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Cinema Journal, Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans (Iowa, 2019) and A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy (with Anastasia Salter, Mississippi, 2020).