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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, March 08, 2021

CFP: Conference on Georgette Heyer’s The Black Moth at 100

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Dr. Sam Hirst, of Romancing the Gothic , is organising a conference and looking for submissions: Cover of The Black Moth 1921 saw the public...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Free New Publication: Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction

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Edited by Samantha J. Rayner and Kim Wilkins, and published by UCL Press, Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction was published toda...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

History and Julia Quinn

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I ended up writing a post which was far too long for here, on history, "social mentalities" and some comments by Julia Quinn about...
Friday, February 12, 2021

The Romance Wiki's Back - and more online romance conversations

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Dr Amy Burge has just announced that " the RomanceWiki is now back online, hosted by the University of Birmingham". You can find i...
Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Forthcoming Online Romance Talks: Horror, Serial Killers and Race

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Sunday 14th February - 10 am and 7 pm UK time Romancing the Gothic Dr Sam Hirst and Tanagra on "Horror, Race and Romance: Love Doesn...
Friday, January 29, 2021

New Publications: Brazil, Nigeria, Scholarship, Resisting Objectification, Politics, Readers and Marketing

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Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de, Erotilde Honório Silva, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia Feitosa, and Thiago Mena Barreto Viana, ...
Friday, January 01, 2021

Hoping 2021 is better than 2020

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Romance is, after all, a genre of hope and To cope with all the feelings of uncertainty that 2020 has brought, many have been turning to on...
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...