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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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

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Abrahamsson, Elin (2025) " Teaching Feminist Cultural Studies Using Popular Romance " Journal of Popular Romance Studies...
Sunday, March 09, 2025

Can you help a Romance Scholar with their Research?

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Romance Genre Browsing and Engagement in the Digital Age Birmingham University PhD student Katie Deane has produced a questionnaire as part ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Decolonising Affective Relationships in Contemporary Romantic Narratives

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Special Issue Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses Editors: Irene Pérez-Fernandez (University of Oviedo) and Cristina Cruz-Gutiérrez (Univer...
Thursday, February 06, 2025

IASPR Conference 2025

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Registration has opened for the 2025 IASPR Conference. The conference is being held in Mexico City from 24-25 June. There's both an in-p...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Links and New Publications: Politics, Pakistan, Empire, Race, Tourism

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From The Guardian (via Jodi McAlister): Over the last four years, many in the romance community, sometimes known as romancelandia, have th...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

Ants as Consumers of Romance Novels

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Just came across a bizarre use of romance novels: In Termitaria (2001), contemporary environmental artist Perdita Phillips collaborated wit...
Monday, December 23, 2024

New Publications: Censorship, Pulps, Royals, Readers, Pirates, Empire, Holidays

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  A volume titled Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? (kind of 2024/...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Upcoming Exhibition on Romance

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From Patch : McDaniel College hosts “Romancing the Novel,” a major exhibition exploring romance novels and their cultural impact. Featuring ...
Friday, December 06, 2024

CfP: Love Studies Conference

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The International Institute of Love Studies will be holding their second conference: Dates: March of 14 –16, 2025 Format: The online con...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

New Publications: French Canadian Romance, Strangled Women and Dark Romance, Migration and Marriage, A Trans Romance author from 1909, Black Romance, Trauma

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Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour , by Marie-Pier Luneau and Jean-Philippe Warren was published in October. How...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Call for Notes on Preserving Primary Sources

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Over on Bluesky , the Journal of Popular Romance Studies just posted: Last year Jonathan Allan asked "what happens if those primary t...
Sunday, November 03, 2024

Abortion, Witches and New Publications (Gaming, Asexuality, Teen Sexuality)

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The Fated Mates podcast posted ( on Bluesky ) that "Elda Minger was the first romance novelist to put condom use on the page. When we ...