Teach Me Tonight

Laura Vivanco First of all, I'm delighted to be able to announce that Eric (whom, given the importance and nature of the news I shoul...

Laura Vivanco I've just come across Loretta Mary Gaffney's thesis, Intellectual Freedom and the Politics of Reading: Libraries ...

Laura Vivanco The discovery that many women read "mommy porn" seemed to shock a large number of commentators who would, presum...

Laura Vivanco I've been deeply saddened to learn of the death of romance author Monica Jackson. Surgery began her career in 1994...

Laura Vivanco In For Love and Money I look at a number of " mythoi " (" traditional or recurrent narrative theme or plot ...

Laura Vivanco Glen Thomas has argued that the [romance] genre's defenders share the underlying assumption of the genre's harshe...

Laura Vivanco Although romance fiction (and Janice Radway's Reading the Romance ) make repeated appearances in the recently publish...

Edited Collection of Essays on Teaching Vampire Literature (Abstracts due June 1, 2012). Vampires are showing up with increasing freq...

Laura Vivanco As Eric writes, "This feature was first imagined, many years ago, as a book of critical essays, to be edited by Lau...

Laura Vivanco There's a lot in this issue of JPRS so I decided to split my post about it into two parts. Here are the items which ...

Laura Vivanco Every writing student has heard the rule that you should show , not tell , but this principle seems to be among the harde...

An Goris This call for papers is being circulated and might be of interest to romance scholars: Despite their covers that picture chick...