In the year since the second Fan Studies Network Conference in September 2014, from which the essays in this special section of Participations have been curated, scholarly attention to transcultural fandoms and fan studies has proliferated in the pages of dedicated fan studies journal issues (Kustriz, 2014; Anderson and Shim, 2015), anthologies (Kuwahara, 2014; Lee, 2014; Marinescu 2014), individual books (Annett, 2014; Brienza, 2015), and essays (Amaral, Souza and Monteiro, 2015; Chambers, 2015; Jin and Yoon, 2014; Kienzl, 2014; Otmazgin and Lyan, 2014; Noppe, 2014; Schules, 2014; Siuda, 2014; Wei, 2014; Zhang and Zhang, 2015). This work, spanning Western and Eastern Europe, East Asia, and South America, as well as a wide range of fan practices and objects, joins a somewhat less cohesive, but nonetheless substantial, body of research into transcultural fandoms whose conception we might locate in Ien Ang's (1985) Watching Dallas. From her groundbreaking study of Dutch fans and other viewers of the American serialised television drama Dallas to the present day, research of transcultural fandoms collectively demonstrates the rich diversity of 'fandom' as a global practice, constituting a potent corrective to the broad tendency within English language fan studies scholarship of approaching 'fans' and 'fandom' from a somewhat normalised Anglo-American perspective.