Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction: (Extra)Ordinary? 1
Jade Alexander and Katarzyna Bronk
Part 1
Constructing Celebrity
1
“The Big Fellow Is Dead!”: Michael Collins as Celebrity and Nationalist Martyr 11
Amber Anna Colvin
2
Mediating Bieber in Canada: Authenticating Nation in Fame 34
Samita Nandy
3
Literary Celebrity, Politics and the Nobel Prize: The Nobel Lecture as an Authorial Self-Fashioning Platform 54
Sandra Mayer
Part 2
(Re)Envisioning Stardom
4
Oscar Wilde’s Long Afterlife: Victorian Celebrity and Its Transformations in Modern Culture 77
Anna Fomichenko
5
Touching Fame: Exploring Interactional Dynamics between Local Celebrities and Fans in Sydney’s Roller Derby Scene 93
Jade Alexander
6
Celebrity Awards, Fan Communities and the Reconstruction of “High” and “Low” Cultures 119
Mira Moshe
Index 137