Paul Booth is an American media scholar and a professor of Digital Communication and Media Arts at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.
[2] He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Transformative Works and Cultures[3] and the Journal of Fandom Studies.
[4] He also oversees the annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference.
[5] Booth earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (where he performed in the improv comedy troupe Spicy Clamato),[6] before earning a master's degree in communication from Northern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in rhetoric and communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
[7] His dissertation was entitled Fandom Studies: Fan studies Re-written, Re-read, Re-produced (2009).