Volume 11 of JPRS is an issue to remember. Every section of the journal ended up full-to-bursting, and thanks to the hard work of scholars,…
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Helen Taylor’s excellent book, Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives, reads as a homage to literature as it recounts her own love…
Comments closedAt the opening keynote panel presentation at the 2013 Popular Romance Author Symposium (Princeton University, October 24, 2013), a member of the audience asked, “Who…
Comments closedDigital Love is the first comprehensive introduction to the relatively new field of romance in video games. It is a collection of essays contributed by…
Continue readingReview: <em>Digital Love: Romance and Sexuality in Games</em>, ed. by Heidi McDonald
Comments closed For decades popular media sources and scholars alike have opined the death of the romantic comedy genre. However, the new collection of essays on the…
Comments closedIn 2014, cultural commentator Noah Berlatsky wrote in Salon that there wasn’t even a provisional consensus on which books were the best or essential romance…
Comments closed“Canon building is empire building. Canon defense is national defense. Canon debate, whatever the terrain, nature, and range (of criticism, of history, of the history…
Comments closedIs there a popular romance canon? If any, then many, though maybe’s there’s none (though we all know, deep down, that there is): that, my…
Comments closedCorresponding Author Dr Andrea Waling ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society Building NR6 La Trobe University Bundoora, VIC,…
Comments closedSexting, or the creation and sharing of sexual messages, images, or videos via mediated communication (Burén and Lunde; Hasinoff), has become a normative practice (Madigan…
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