Fan fiction metadata creation and utilization within fan fiction archives: Three primary models
Shannon Fay Johnson, published in Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures, 2014

edited by Rukmini Pande, University of Iowa Press, 2020
available on JSTOR
Community, Soul-Searching and Pleasure: The Significance
of Real Person Fanfiction in BTS Fandom
Palmer Haasch, undergraduate thesis University of Minnesota, 2019

Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom
Abigail de Kosnik, MIT Press, 2016

A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies
edited by Paul Booth, John Wiley & Sons, 2018
Broadcasting and Schizophrenia
John Durham Peters, published in Media, Culture, & Society, 2010

The Fan Fiction Studies Reader
edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, University of Iowa Press, 2014
Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction
Donald Horton and R. Richard Wohl, published in Psychiatry, 1956

Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet
edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, McFarland Books, 2006
*highly recommended! Coppa’s “A Brief History of Media Fandom” and Woledge’s “Intimatopia: Genre Intersections Between Slash and the Mainstream” are a few favorites, but I love the whole book!

Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race
Rukmini Pande, University of Iowa Press, 2018

Textual Poachers:
Television Fans and Participatory Culture
Henry Jenkins, Routledge Press, originally published 1992
check your institution library for access!
“Bandom Ate My Face”: The Collapse of the Fourth Wall in Online Fan Fiction
Ross Hagen, published in Popular Music and Society, 2015

Karen Hellekson, published in The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction, 2015
Andrea Long Chu, published in Queer Disruptions, 2018

fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World
Anne Jamison, Smart Pop Books, 2013
*a good intro for a non-scholar into fan studies!