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Just came across a bizarre use of romance novels: In Termitaria (2001), contemporary environmental artist Perdita Phillips collaborated wit...

  A volume titled Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? (kind of 2024/...

From Patch : McDaniel College hosts “Romancing the Novel,” a major exhibition exploring romance novels and their cultural impact. Featuring ...

The International Institute of Love Studies will be holding their second conference: Dates: March of 14 –16, 2025 Format: The online con...

Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour , by Marie-Pier Luneau and Jean-Philippe Warren was published in October. How...

Over on Bluesky , the Journal of Popular Romance Studies just posted: Last year Jonathan Allan asked "what happens if those primary t...

The Fated Mates podcast posted ( on Bluesky ) that "Elda Minger was the first romance novelist to put condom use on the page. When we ...

From Jonathan Allan and Catherine Roach: Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the journal  Porn Studies  focused on  “Popular Romance and...

The Social Transformation Research Collaborative at DePaul University is holding a symposium on Writing, Race, and Memory on 22 October 202...

Eric Selinger has announced that "This spring, after 15 years, I will be stepping down as Executive Editor of the Journal of Popular R...

Items whose titles are hyperlinked are accessible freely. Greening, Alo (2024). History, Huh: A Post-Modern Study of the ...

From the IASPR website, two calls for papers: Romantic Regions: Call for Papers, IASPR Conference 2025 We are now ...