Permanent Post for Dr Amy Burge

I'm really happy to be able to able to post the news that Dr Amy Burge, Book Review Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies, has been appointed Lecturer in Popular Fiction in the University of Birmingham's School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies! Since the appointment starts in August, she doesn't yet have her details up on the University's website.

I wouldn't go quite so far as to say it's one small step for Amy, one giant leap for popular romance studies, but it's certainly a very encouraging step for the field to have someone appointed to such a post specifically for their expertise in romance, and particularly in the UK, where there are fewer university-based romance scholars than in the US or Australia.

It appears that the jig is up at #IASPR18 so it seems like a appropriate time to say that I'll be joining Uni of Birmingham @EngLit_UoB as a Lecturer in Pop Fiction from August! pic.twitter.com/bx4eqyE0xs

— Amy Burge (@dramyburge) 27 June 2018