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meet MONIQUE MCGEE

Doctoral student,
university of georgia

Monique McGee is an interdisciplinary researcher exploring fan communities as dynamic sites of informal learning. Her work centers how adult learners construct knowledge, identity, and social norms through participatory fan practices. She is particularly interested in what fan spaces reveal about learning beyond formal educational settings—both their possibilities and their consequences.

Get to Know More About Me

#1 what does MOnique study?
She studies informal learning in fan communities, focusing on how adult learners construct knowledge, identity, and social norms through participatory practices.
#2 What kinds of fan practices does her work examine?
Her research looks at deep, embodied participation, media engagement, fan communities, and creative production as powerful learning activities within fan spaces.
#3 What questions drive her scholarship?
Monique asks how fans learn within fandom communities beyond formal education, and how these participatory spaces simultaneously enable meaning‑making, becoming, and social harm.
#4 What social issues does she explore in fan communities?
What social issues does she explore in fan communities? She critically examines hierarchies, membership, cancel culture, and learned hate, alongside the learning potential of participatory fandom.
#5 What fields inform her work?
At it's core, this research focuses on how adults learn. This work bridges Adult Education and Participatory Culture with an emphasis on Informal Learning.
#6 What is her dream research project?
Her dream project would involve joining a world tour as an in‑house researcher to study how fans prepare for, experience, and make meaning of live shows, including the rituals, traditions, and community practices that emerge around them.
#7 What are my... I mean her cats' names?
Silly, Blue, and Raja (who was likely a Batman villain in a previous life).
#8 Favorite sports teams?
Obviously, go Braves. She's a long-time Atlanta Falcons season ticket holder... but she's also from Philadelphia, so if any family sees this... Fly Eagles Fly.
#9 What do you want to be when you grow up?
....answer loading....
#10 favorite place?
Okay hi it's me... give me a beach or Paris and I'm a happy girl.

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