Category: Roundtable Pieces

The publication of Reading the Romance made room at the academic table for doing scholarly work on romance.  Radway’s book has made it possible for me to…

I want to begin by setting the scene. It’s 2007 and I’m stumbling my way through my second semester as a master’s student. I’m reading…

I first encountered Reading the Romance in the fall of 2007. At the time, I was a first-semester graduate student in the Joint Program of English and…

Once upon a time, a group of romance novelists in America banded together and formed a professional organization. (That time was, to be more exact,…

I read Janice Radway’s Reading the Romance in 1995, the first year of my graduate coursework. The book was a required text in my cultural studies course,…

I’m something of “a spy in the house of love.” I don’t “do” romance. And yet Reading the Romance has had a significant influence on foundational work…

There is so much to celebrate about this book and its place in the field, but I’ve been given very little time, so I’d like…

This panel was organized with each member giving a different perspective on Reading the Romance at its thirtieth anniversary.  Clearly, I’m here to give the historical perspective,…

At the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (April 16-18, 2014, Chicago), scholars of English, cultural studies, fandom, religious studies, and other…