JPRS CFP: Teaching and Learning

CALL FOR PAPERS

“TEACHING & LEARNING” IN THE JOURNAL OF POPULAR ROMANCE STUDIES

The journal is now calling for submissions on the theory and practice of teaching and learning in popular romance studies for a regular section in the journal.

The “Teaching and Learning” section of JPRS welcomes theoretical and empirical contributions from all relevant disciplines, as well as interdisciplinary approaches. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Key issues in the teaching and learning of popular romance studies

• The research / teaching nexus and popular romance

• Curriculum design for teaching popular romance

• Practical case studies of teaching key texts and/or topics

• Assessment models for teaching popular romance

• Teaching and learning popular romance in the digital age

• Student responses to studying representations of romantic love

• Popular romance fans as teachers and students

• Open Education Resources (OER) for teaching popular romance

• Postgraduate students and popular romance studies

Articles submitted should be no longer than 10,000 words. Submissions

should be Microsoft Word documents, with citations in MLA format. Do not include your name or the name of any co-authors in the submitted manuscript, since the piece will be sent out for blind peer review. In your cover-letter email, please provide your complete contact information (address, phone number, e-mail address) and a 150-200-word abstract of the submission. You are welcome to suggest appropriate peer reviewers. For further information about the submission process consult the journal (http://jprstudies.org/submissions/).

Please email submissions to the journal’s Editor of Teaching and Learning, Lisa Fletcher (Lisa.Fletcher@utas.edu.au).