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Thursday, May 19, 2022

New Issue of JPRS on Black Romance, and other new publications

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Issue 11 of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies features a special issue on Black Romance, edited by Margo Hendricks and Julie Moody-Fre...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

New Publications: Comics, Second Hand Bookshops, Islands, Hispanisms, Race, Young People, Fatness, Radway and Chinese Readers

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Brunet, Peyton and Blair Davis (2022). Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age. Austin: University of Texas Pr...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Good News/Bad News: Eric Selinger, Margo Hendricks, Book Bans

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Eric Selinger has made most of his romance scholarship available for free online in pre-print form. That includes: Disaggregating attractio...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

PCA/ACA roundup

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As far as I know, the PCA/ACA conference, which ends on 16 April, no longer releases abstracts online. However, there were some tweets of th...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Non-Text Academic Commentary: Margo Hendricks (on Beverly Jenkins) and Val Derbyshire (on Penny Jordan)

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Professor Margo Hendricks' Masterclass "Those Purple Hands Really Intrigue Me" on Beverly Jenkins' Indigo is now available...
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New Publications: Disability, Folklore, Gender, Literature, Linguistics, Sexuality

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The 2022 volume of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies is now being published (articles etc. are published throughout the year). At the ...
Monday, February 14, 2022

El ‘chico malo’ - a talk about paranormal romance given in Spanish by Maria T. Ramos Garcia

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 As promised, here's a link to: “El ‘chico malo’ en la novela romántica paranormal post-9/11 en Estados Unidos” MARÍA T. RAMOS GARCÍA U...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

Events: 10 and 14 February

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Coming up on the 14th is a colloquium which will be streamed live. "Figuraciones del chico malo: género, deseo y poder en narrativas r...
Wednesday, February 02, 2022

What's On: Talks (Black Love Matters and Female Characters)

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The essay collection Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters , edited by Jessica P. Pryde is now avai...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

What's On: Talks (on Industry Norms, Black Romance, Heyer)

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Duke University's course on romance, UNSUITABLE (with an associated blog and events) has announced that its 2022 season begins on Frida...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

New publications: topics covered include Lovecraft, sexual orientation, fatness, race, identity, and religion

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This will be the last of my new publication lists for 2021. Articles about romance have been continuing to appear (see below). This has also...
Wednesday, December 08, 2021

17 December - Series on Black Romance Concludes

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On 17 December, the last in a four-part series on Black Romance will take place. This one is about Black Popular Romance in Africa. 17 Frida...