Chapter 1 How Was the Nerd or Geek Born?

Chapter 2 A Nerd, a Geek, and a Hipster Walk into a Bar

Chapter 3 Mediagasms, Ironic Nerds, and Mainstream Geeks: A Multimethodological Ideographic Cluster Analysis of and on Twitter

Chapter 4 Changing Faces: Exploring Depictions of Geeks in Various Texts

Chapter 5 Geek Metafiction: Nerds, Footnotes, and Intertextuality

Chapter 6 Ich Bin Ein Nerd! : Geek Identity in Insider and Outsider Media

Chapter 7 Geek Is the New Jock: The Relationship Between Geek Culture and Sports

Chapter 8 Geeking Out and Hulking Out: Toward an Understanding of Marvel Fan Communities

Chapter 9 How Is It Okay to Be a Black Nerd?

Chapter 10 That Geek Look: Beauty and the Female Geek Body

Chapter 11 Modern Nerd: Alex Dunphy and Growing Up Geeky in Modern Family

Chapter 12 From Zero to Hero and Back Again: Nerd Nobodies, Magic Makeovers, and the Power of the American Dream in Four Teen Films

Chapter 13 The Geek as Rake: Roving Masculinity in Contemporary Film

Chapter 14 The Horror of the Geek: The Geek Archetype in Slasher Film