Tuesday, March 18, 2025

New Publications: Teaching, Bathsheba, Lesbian Pirates, Stay-At-Home French Canadians, Beverly Jenkins and some Socialism

Abrahamsson, Elin (2025) "Teaching Feminist Cultural Studies Using Popular Romance" Journal of Popular Romance Studies 14.

Deosun, Ceri (2025). "The Bible in Inspirational Fiction: The Case of Bathsheba." The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry. Ed. Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. Oxon, Abingdon: Routledge. 348-363. [Excerpts available from Google Books and Routledge's page about the volume can be found here.]

Garber, Linda (2025). “The Present in Our Past: Reading Lesbian Historical Fiction.” Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe. Ed. Catherine Barbour and Karunika Kardak. Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. 59-75. [Abstract here.]

Luneau, Marie-Pier and Jean-Philippe Warren (2025). “Exoticism Without Cosmopolitanism: The Quebec Romance Novel of the 1940s and 1950s.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 29.1: 154-166. [Abstract]
 
Moore, Jeania Ree V. (2025). “The Religious Work of Beverly Jenkins’s Black Historical Romance.” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 14.
 
Nielson, Annika (2025) "The Summer of YA Love: Young Adult Romance, Tiktok, and the Classroom," The Utah English Journal 53, Article 14.
 

Sunday, March 09, 2025

Can you help a Romance Scholar with their Research?

Romance Genre Browsing and Engagement in the Digital Age

Birmingham University PhD student Katie Deane has produced a questionnaire as part of a study which "looks at how romance novels circulate amongst their readership in the digital age, from recommendation cultures online to digital shelving, search, and discovery". She's looking for romance readers to fill in this questionnaire. Can you help?

 https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/bham/romance-reader-survey

She promises it's "pretty short". And if you could also share it with any other romance readers you know, particularly ones aged 18-24 who've not responded in large numbers yet, that would be really appreciated.