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Showing posts with label academics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academics. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Concerns about Methodology of Racial Diversity Report

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I've posted in the past about (and cited) the Ripped Bodice's reports on racial diversity in romance publishing so I thought it was ...
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Monday, October 05, 2020

A short set of links: romance scholarship podcasts, LGBT+ issues, and some old Mills & Boon history

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A few recent developments: Eric's been at the Shelf Love podcast , discussing the history of romance scholarship. There's a transcri...
Monday, July 20, 2020

RWA Research Grant 2020

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Before posting this, I checked the statement that IASPR made earlier in the year about changes which needed to take place in the RWA in re...
Thursday, April 09, 2020

New Romance Scholarship Database! Read Radway, Regis and Weaver-Zercher for Free!

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Laura Vivanco I've finished the first stage of the Romance Scholarship Database I've been working on for the past few months:...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Conference Cancellations, a new RWA Board in a time of crisis, and Some Secondary Reading

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The RWA has a new board (details archived here ). All the upcoming romance conferences have now been postponed (links to details on the c...
Monday, December 30, 2019

RWA: Social Formation and Big Names Speak

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Claire Ryan reports that Dr. Natalie Tindall, RWA Academic Grant Committee Chairperson, and one other committee member resign. (Informat...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Ghostwriting of Romance: An Issue for Romance Scholarship?

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Courtney Milan gives details on her blog of why she was obliged to conclude "that Christiane Serruya has copied, word-for-word, multi...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

New: Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction

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It's been a while since I added an item to the Romance Wiki's list of guides to the romance genre . The Encyclopedia of Romance...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Call for Contributors: New Academic Pop Fiction Blog

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Elizabeth Parker of the University of Birmingham (UK) has written that: A few of us at the University of Birmingham are in the process of...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Food for Thought: Romance Readers More Moral, a Philosophical Romance and more

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Laura Vivanco According to some new research on popular fiction the more Romance [...] authors participants recognized, the fewer moral...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Romance News Roundup: PhD opportunity, conference report, disability project, diversity at risk, new publications

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There's a PhD opportunity at the University of Tasmania: Popular Fiction in the Twenty-First Century This scholarship provides $26,6...
Saturday, January 09, 2016

New to the Wiki: Latvia and Bertlatsky

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Laura Vivanco In addition to the bibliography of academic articles and books, the Romance Wiki also has two pages for reporting of romanc...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Help an Academic Out: "Till Death Us Do Part"

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Laura Vivanco Daniel K Judd is a professor looking for the history of the phrase: "Until death do us part." I'm also re...
Monday, July 27, 2015

Romance: Reflecting, and Reflecting on, Society

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Laura Vivanco Scott McCracken has observed that To study popular fiction [...] is to study only a small part of popular culture. Noneth...
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Thursday, April 02, 2015

Romance XIII: The Romance of Work? Books, Sex, Magic, and the Academic Heroine

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Laura Vivanco Romance XIII: The Romance of Work? Books, Sex, Magic, and the Academic Heroine Heroines in Bookstores: The Romantic Eco...
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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Funding for Studying Romance: "Unwarranted"

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Laura Vivanco Pamela Regis has described romance as "The Most Popular, Least Respected Literary Genre" (xi) and for years roman...
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