Alongside fandom academics Alexis Lothian and Robin Anne Reid, she coined the term "queer female space" in 2007.

Together, they found an open-access platform to share their records and picked an editorial board to oversee their research papers prior to print.

Similar to her first book, this was a collection of essays examining the cultural intersections and fan traditions surrounding the Sherlock Holmes fandom.

[7][8] As a result of her scholarship in fanfiction, Busse and Hellekson co-edited The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, a collection of texts surrounding the field fandom, identity, and feminism.

[10] Busse submitted expert witness testimony on behalf of writer Zoey Ellis in the Omegaverse copyright lawsuit, which received widespread media attention for the questions it raised about intellectual property.