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Read a Romance Month 25 Aug 2013 | 11:36 pm
Sarah S. G. Frantz A woman called Bobbi Dumas, who writes for Kirkus, has done a remarkable thing this month that I think is of value to scholars. She's created Read a Romance Month. Every day for al...
Are You Talking to Me? A Critic’s Discourse on the Pleasure of the Romance 25 Aug 2013 | 11:17 pm
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Jonathan A. Allan I'll never be an evaluator of fiction determining which books are "good" and which are "bad," so this will not be a review, but it...
Bujold Archive 24 Aug 2013 | 02:05 pm
Laura Vivanco Since Lois McMaster Bujold's novels are loved by a lot of romance readers (and quite often include romantic elements), I thought I'd mention that Northern Illinois University has acquir...
Tenure-Track Position in American Popular Culture 17 Aug 2013 | 03:09 pm
Laura Vivanco For those who aren't on the Romance Scholar listserv and therefore may not have seen this already: The Department of American Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University o...
Queering Popular Romance (CFP) 17 Aug 2013 | 01:08 am
New Call for Papers: Queering Popular Romance (September 1, 2014 Deadline) In 1997, Kay Mussell called upon scholars of popular romance “to incorporate analysis of lesbian and gay romances into ou....
Gender and Love Conference: Demisexual Protagonists and Feminism 10 Aug 2013 | 05:07 pm
3rd Global Conference Friday 13th September – Sunday 15th September 2013 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom The conference puts the draft papers online, so I've included links to some of them...
Marginalised Mainstream 2013 1 Aug 2013 | 01:41 pm
Laura Vivanco Marginalised Mainstream: Fading and Emerging: Tracing the Mainstream in Literature and Popular Culture London: 12-13 October 2013 Conference registration is now open and the programm....
The Perfect Girls of YA Paranormal Romance 31 Jul 2013 | 04:02 am
Laura Vivanco In a recent MA thesis, "Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances," Whitney Young argues that "the discourse which emerges from the novels ove...
Beyond the Happily-Ever-After, Sociologists at Large, Bujold, and Feral Feminism 26 Jul 2013 | 01:45 am
Laura Vivanco Romances are increasingly being written as part of series and in "Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel," published this month in Americana (whic...
CFP: Symposium on Romance Authorship at Princeton University 23 Jul 2013 | 06:45 am
The Princeton Department of English & The Program in Gender And Sexuality Studies Present The Popular Romance Author A symposium on authorship in the popular romance genre Keynote Speaker: Profe...
