Although they are often treated very differently, the fields of literary fiction and genre fiction (including romance) have no neat demarcations between them. One might…
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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…
Comments closedMichelle Janning’s Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age is part of the Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology. According to…
Comments closedRomance fiction is a significant part of the global publishing industry. However, its dynamics beyond Anglo-American contexts remain underexplored. Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines…
Comments closedIn 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…
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