Researching the Romance: Romance Across Boundaries
Bowling Green State University, Ohio
April 24-25, 2020
More about the Conference
Romance fiction is shaped by boundaries and rules- the expectations of tropes and subgenres, the centrality of the love story, the requirement of the happy ending. Authors and readers rely on the boundaries of romance to help them write and read, yet also sometimes revel in their subversion. Academics use those same boundaries to form their avenues of inquiry into this vast genre. Taken together, the boundary lines provide endless points of discussion and controversy for those who produce and consume romance. This conference will provide a venue for all of those interested in romance fiction- authors, academics, and readers- to come together and discuss their interactions with the genre’s boundaries.
Call for presentations:
We are seeking presentations of approximately 15-20 minutes in length. The scope of the conference is deliberately broad in order to encourage presenters to be creative and take interdisciplinary approaches. Individual and panel presentations will be considered. Some examples of potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Romance tropes and how are they defined, enforced, and subverted
- In-depth analysis of particular authors’ work
- The history and growth of subgenres within popular romance fiction
- The history of the Happily Ever After
- Predictability and freedom within category romance
- Authors’ approaches to research on time periods, subgenres, etc
- How authors, readers and academics can occupy multiple identities within popular romance fiction
- Romance novel covers across the decades and subgenres
- Popular romance fiction around the world- how national borders influence the genre
- How the traditional boundaries of romance impact self-publishing
More details here.
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