In the evolving landscape of literary studies, particularly within the domains of popular romance and historical fiction, two recent edited collections stand out as significant…
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In Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves / Monstrous Others, editors Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi weave together a collection that examines “youth culture…
Comments closedIn Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture, Derritt Mason uses multiple forms of queer young adult (YA) media as a lens through which…
Comments closedIn ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy (2020), Cristina Herrera focuses on the previously overlooked intersection of racial, gender, and intellectual identity…
Comments closedJavaria 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…
Comments closedWhat is an orgasm? This is a question researchers have tried to identify and understand for the last seventy or so years. It has been…
Comments closedJayashree 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…
Comments closedRomantic 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…
Comments closedCasey 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…
Comments closedIn South Asian Gothic: Haunted Cultures, Histories, and Media, editors Katarzyna Ancuta and Deimantas Valančiūnas, alongside thirteen fellow “expert scholars of film, literature, and cultural…
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