Personal website - to do

 

First up, relevant news (updated Oct 2024)

• i am a member of the Fall/Winter 2024 cohort of Woodward Residency in Ridgewood NYC
• i'm still working on my book (a nonfiction history of fandom culture, coming at some point from Norton)
• i am freelance writing for publications including WIRED, Slate, and The Atlantic
• i spent another fabulous august at the edinburgh fringe festival, this time working for Gaby Jerrard PR and Stamptown
• i have a substack - subscribe to tchotchke to get essays, stories, and random columns in your inbox on some fridays (but not others)

meanwhile

I 🗽 live in New York 🗽 and graduated in 2023 from NYU's Experimental Humanities MA program

I am an 🗣️ ️expert in fan culture & digital audiences️ 🗣️️ and am available for work (consulting, project management, writing & reporting) re: those topics. Recent clients include Tumblr and Hear Me Out.

i do ❄️ polar exploration research ❄️  for fun. see my blog for the latest updates

i am one of the lead organizers of the Terror Camp virtual polar conference, and 2023's conference attracted nearly 1000 attendees from all over the world. 

other conferences etc:

in 2024 I:

• gave a lecture on "Polar Fans, Now & Then" at the Shackleton Autumn School in Athy, Ireland
• presented a short talk on George Marston, Shackleton's expedition artist, at the Shackleton150 gathering at the Royal Geographical Society in London

in 2023 I presented original research on fandom monetization on a roundtable on fandom polarization at AOIR in Philadelphia

in 2022 I presented polar history research at the HSS conference in Chicago, and created and presented a polar history project as an NYU digital humanities summer fellow.

in 2021 I presented academic work in fan studies at the ELO & FSN-NA conferences.

i 🤡occasionally produce live comedy🤡 in such locales as the Edinburgh Fringe or Brooklyn

i'm  📚 represented by Maggie Cooper at Aevitas  📚

 

Then - pithy description

 

actually you know what. i've decided i'm just a writer. (and that's growth!)

 

middle of page - experience section like so:

 

In the past

tbh all that stuff is on my linkedin but the most important things are that i did merch and marketing for Vulfpeck & was an A&R scout for Atlantic Records.

also sometimes i still put up new songs about tv shows/interviews with vulf on my youtube channel

 

maybe a skill section here? basically, i CAN do whatever. but i PREFER to do the stuff that i like. such as: writing, research, live events, consulting on audiences & fandoms, narrative design, etc.

 

then contact info? maybe just email & socials:

 

Get in touch: allegrarosenberg [at] gmail dot com

twitter + linkedin

 

possibly something here like "hmu directly if you want to read my fanfiction" LOL though maybe that's too much

anyway alright this is good enough tbh.