Why Read Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances?
The Genre World of Romance in Twenty-First Century Australia
Place: Room 346, Humanities Building, Sandy Bay Campus, University of TasmaniaDate: 23rd Sep 2016
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Lisa Fletcher, Beth Driscoll, and Kim Wilkins report on the findings from a project funded by the Romance Writers of America in 2015, which was the first phase of a larger project on Australian popular fiction (funded through an ARC Discovery Grant 2016-2018). Our aim in the first phase was to generate new knowledge about romance in Australia by asking this research question: how do the interactions between romance fiction texts and their national and international writing and publishing communities build and maintain the genre in Australia? We propose the concept of the “genre world” as an analytical tool for examining the relationship between the textual conventions by which we typically define genre and the conventional collective behaviours and activities that govern the production of genre texts.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Romance
Conference of the Popular and American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)
Conference of the Popular and American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)
12 – 15 April 2017 – San Diego, CA
The topic of romantic love suffuses popular culture. In
turn, the popular culture of romantic love shapes real life social
practices, from dating to weddings to holiday shopping. PCA/ACA Romance
welcomes any theoretical or (inter)disciplinary approach to any topic
related to romance, including the following: art;
literature; philosophy;
radio;
film; television; comics and graphic novels; videos, webzines and other
online storytelling. We are deeply interested in popular romance both
within and outside of mainstream
popular culture, now or in the past, anywhere in the world. Scholars,
romance writers, romance readers, and any combination of the three are
welcome: you do not need to be an academic
to be part of the Romance area.
If you
wish to organize a roundtable, special session, or a film screening,
please contact the Area Chairs. We have had great success with film
screenings for the past several years and would
be interested in hosting another one.
As we
do every year, the Romance area will meet in a special Open Forum to
discuss upcoming conferences, work in progress, and the future of the
field of Popular Romance Studies. All are welcome
to attend.
Submit a proposal or abstract (200-300 words) proposal or abstract through the PCA/ACA website, and ONLY through that website,
at conference.pcaaca.org.
If you wish to submit a panel
for the conference, all presenters must submit individually through the
website, and then notify the Area Chairs of your intentions to present
together. Please do not include panel colleagues on the electronic
submission as this confuses the program. Instructions
for submission can be found at
https://conference.pcaaca.org/
Do not
simultaneously submit the same proposal to multiple areas. Doing so
will result in your proposal being disqualified and your paper being
refused by the PCA/ACA. Per PCA/ACA guidelines,
a person may present only one paper at
the annual meeting, regardless of subject area. If you try to submit to
two areas, the master program will not accept your proposals (which may
result
in your paper not being accepted in either area).
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2016
Please feel free to forward, cross-post, or link to this call for papers.
If you have any questions as all, please contact the area chairs:
Dr. Heather Schell Dr. Jodi McAlister
George Washington University
Washington, DC
schellhm@gwu.edu 
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