Category: Book Reviews

In Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves / Monstrous Others, editors Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi weave together a collection that examines “youth culture…

In Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture, Derritt Mason uses multiple forms of queer young adult (YA) media as a lens through which…

In ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy (2020), Cristina Herrera focuses on the previously overlooked intersection of racial, gender, and intellectual identity…

Javaria Farooqui’s Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan is the first drop of rain in the generally dry and arid research-scapes of Popular Romance Studies in…

What is an orgasm? This is a question researchers have tried to identify and understand for the last seventy or so years. It has been…

Jayashree Kamblé’s monograph not only adds significant dimensions to the intersecting fields of popular romance studies, gender studies, and cultural studies by exploring the question…

Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction is a collection of essays aimed at expanding and exploring popular romance studies outside of the…

Casey Ryan Kelly’s 2016 monograph Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film argues that “[P]opular cinema contributes to the ideological…

In South Asian Gothic: Haunted Cultures, Histories, and Media, editors Katarzyna Ancuta and Deimantas Valančiūnas, alongside thirteen fellow “expert scholars of film, literature, and cultural…

It is highly doubtful that enthusiasts of romantic cinema would consider Richard Linklater’s trilogy, Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), Before Midnight (2013) to be…