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Sunday, July 31, 2022

A short exploration of "unconditional love"

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Kharma Kelley, a romance author, has a few points to make about "unconditional romance" and I think it's a topic worth thinki...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Lots of IASPR news and new publications

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In recent news: . @dramyburge and I are in the very early stages of some work on the history and development of British romance fiction, an...
Sunday, July 03, 2022

A Changing Genre? New dissertations and links: readers, feminism, LGBTQIA+ , Black romance

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Here are the new dissertations: Farooqui, Javaria (2022). Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan . PhD...
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Thursday, June 16, 2022

New: Courtney Milan, Historical Romance, Teaching Romance, Podcasts, Mills & Boon Vintage Covers, New Frontiers, and more

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I'm going to start with the two new articles in the Journal of Popular Romance Studies for the entirely biased reason that one of them i...
Sunday, June 05, 2022

New (and one forthcoming) publications: Comics, Masculinities, Love, Readers, Happiness, Heyer and more

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The Observer published an article about British romance comics of the 1950s and 60s, with mention of a forthcoming publication on the topic...
Friday, May 20, 2022

In Memoriam: Gwendolyn E. Osborne

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Image of Gwendolyn E. Osborne from AALBC Late yesterday I just got devastating news. Gwen Osborne, a former reviewer at The Romance Reader, ...
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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 ...