Teach Me Tonight

I'm not sure I've mentioned this before on here (and I'm busy cross-posting this news in a variety of places, so apologies if yo...

The Bowling Green State University romance conference would have started yesterday. Here's Wednesday's schedule: https://scholarwork...

Ali, Abu-Bakar, 2018.  "Agency, Gender, Nationalism, and the Romantic Imaginary in Pakistan", Routledge Companion to Pakistani A...

Laura Vivanco Keira Soleore has posted summaries of papers presented on romance at the recent PCA/ACA conference: The Popular Culture A...

Laura Vivanco The History of Romance: Rakes, Gothics, Queer Publishing, and Preservation Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 4:45pm - 6:15p...

Laura Vivanco On Friday I came across a post by Jana DeLeon in which she mentioned that she'd written a "gothic-lite" for Har...

Laura Vivanco The appearance of Studies in Gothic Fiction , a new "online refereed academic journal devoted to the study of the Gothic ...

We’re in the middle of a heatwave here in the UK. The weather does affect our mood, as well as our bodies, but some authors manage to demon...

Ann Barr Snitow, in her 1979 essay 'Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different' wrote that: The heroine is alone. Somet...