Keira Soleore has posted summaries of papers presented on romance at the recent PCA/ACA conference:
The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association's national conference was on Tuesday, March 22 in Seattle. I attended five of the seven sessions in the Romance Area, which was chaired by Eric Selinger of DePaul University.Keira's first post summarises
"Novel" Representations of Female Sexuality in Popular Fiction Across Cultures by Claire Watson
Aspirational Labor in the Creative Industries: Becoming a “Real” Romance Writer by Jen Lois
Analyzing Dan Savage's "Monogamish" Claim by Shaun Miller
Keira's second post summarises
Poldark As Anti-Antihero: Rebooting Romantic Masculinity for an Age of Crisis by Kyle Sclabach
All Around Great Guys, Mostly: The Evolving Romantic Hero in Literary Webseries by Margaret Selinger
Alpha, Beta, and the Ambiguous Omega: The Diversity of Heroes by Veera Mäkelä
Constructing Black Masculinities in Romance Fiction by Julie Moody-Freeman
Keira's third post summarises
"Lifting as We Climb": Iola LeRoy and the Early African-American Romance by Pamela Regis
Making It American: Epic Romance and the National Myth by Maryan Wherry
You Say Anal Like It's A Bad Thing by Meagan Gacke
Muslim Love American Style: Islamic-American Hybrid Culture and Romance in Muslim Fiction by Layla Abdullah-Poulos
Keira's fourth post summarises
Session Four, on Diversity in Historical Romance
and
Lady Catherine's Descendents: Examples of the Older Other Woman in Romance Fiction by Olivia Waite
A Short Inquiry into the Gothic Romance by Angela Toscano
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