Amy Krug, from the University of Dayton, is
happy to report that the University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio) now has a dedicated collection, the University Libraries Popular Romance Collection. The fun part about this collection is that the books are almost entirely chosen by students. I teach popular romance, and as an experiential learning project a few years ago in those classes I had groups of students choose books (especially those that depict diverse characters) to go in the collection. Students in my classes are still selecting books every semester, with funding from our experiential learning department and our Libraries.
Here is UD's page on the collection:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ul_popularromance/ Secondly, I was recently on The Academic Minute podcast discussing reading
romance as an act of resistance:
https://academicminute.org/amy-krug-university-of-dayton-rea ding-romance-as-an-act-of-resi stance/
