Reading for Pleasure: Romance Fiction in the International Marketplace
Saturday, April 22 at 8:00am to 4:15pm
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Bernhard Music Center 54 Chapin Hall Dr, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA
Free and open to the public.8:00 - 10:00 am: Panel 1: Theories of Pleasure (Brooks Rogers Auditorium on the Williams campus)
Chair: Leyla Rouhi, Williams College
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Laura Frost, Stanford University: “Stories of O: The Language of Orgasm in Women’s Romance”
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Julie Cassiday, Williams College: “A World Without Safe-Words: Fifty Shades of Russian Grey”
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Eric Selinger, DePaul University: “Xenophile’s Paradox: Reading for Pleasure Across the Great Divides”
10:15 am - 12:15 pm: Panel 2: New Subjects and Audiences (Brooks Rogers Auditorium)
Chair: Alison Case, Williams College
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Sonali Dev, author: “Genre Structure and Learning to Dance Within its Boundaries”
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Hsu-Ming
Teo, Macquarie University: “Tigresses, Tang Dynasty, and the Ten
Commandments: The East Asian Romance Novels of Jade Lee, Jeannie Lin,
and Camy Tang”
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Jayashree Kamblé, LaGuardia Community College: “When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Multiculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy”
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Len Barot (Radclyffe), author and publisher: “Lesbian Romances and the International Market in the Digital Age”
2:15 - 4:15 pm: Panel 3: New Media Platforms and the Global Marketplace (Brooks Rogers Auditorium)
Chair: Greg Mitchell, Williams College
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Mary Bly (Eloisa James), Fordham University, author: “Romancing the World: How and Where American Romance Sells”
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Katy
Regnery, author: “From Stay-at-Home Mom to NYT Bestseller in 30
Months: A First-Hand Perspective on the Digital Revolution in the
Romance Publishing Industry”
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Sarah Wendell, Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: “The World is So Big; the World is So Small: The Global Community of Romance”
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Patience Bloom, Harlequin: “Harlequin’s International Program: A World of Romance Readers”
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