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Monday, December 21, 2020

New at JPRS: Special Issue on The Sheik (and a bit about teaching romance in Sweden)

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The final additions to issue 9 of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies have now gone online and are (as always) freely available to read, ...
Friday, December 18, 2020

Congratulations and Recent Publications

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First of all, I'd like to congratulate the 2020 winners of the RWA Academic Research Grant . The RWA Academic Grant Committee has recomm...
Monday, November 23, 2020

An Award, Congratulations and Publications: Masculinity; Movies; Hercules; Interwar Magazine Fiction

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If you've got an unpublished essay on romance, you might be able to submit it for the Francis Award, which comes with a $250 USD prize a...
Friday, November 06, 2020

Thinking Outside the "Couple Norm"

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The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe by Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Tone Hellesund, Ana...
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...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Black Romance Podcast

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 Julie Moody-Freeman, of DePaul University, has started a podcast : The Black Romance Podcast features conversations with Black writers, ed...

New to the Romance Database

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  New articles have been published by the Journal of Popular Romance Studies : Asexual Romance in an Allosexual World: How Ace-Spectrum Char...
Friday, August 28, 2020

New Book: Jodi McAlister's "The Consummate Virgin"

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Jodi McAlister's PhD thesis has now been published as a book by Palgrave. The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglo...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Vivian Stephens and the RWA

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Vivian Stephens Helped Turn Romance Writing Into a Billion-Dollar Industry. Then She Got Pushed Out. https://t.co/SI9xxoVbbQ — mimi swartz (...
Monday, August 10, 2020

New: The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction

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The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction is, sadly, very expensive in the current format (hardback), but it's out no...
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Friday, July 24, 2020

New Romance Web Archive

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From Steve Ammidown (Manuscripts & Outreach Archivist, Browne Popular Culture Library): Browne Popular Culture Library at BGSU and...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

New Publications: Faith, Love, Hope, Pastoral Care; the Gothic; Houses; Publishing and Diversity in Libraries; Sex, Virginity; PTSD

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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...