I started graduate school in 2000 with the intent of studying Shakespeare and film. In 2002, when I expressed some uncertainty about my doctoral focus,…
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A Natural History of the Romance Novel is one of the most pivotal works on popular romance that has ever been published. In terms of…
Comments closedIn the summer or fall of 2005, I went to my local public library to pick up some books on “romance.” I was new to…
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Comments closed Address given at the 2013 Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. March 2013. A Natural History of the Romance Novel was published ten years…
Comments closedAt the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (March 27-30, 2013, Washington D.C.), scholars gathered to mark the tenth anniversary of Pamela…
Comments closedIn the introduction to Women and Romance: A Reader, Susan Ostrov Weisser inquires whether romantic love weakens or empowers women. “Is it a debilitating illusion,…
Comments closedAs Barbara Fuchs acknowledges in the first line of Romance, “romance is a notoriously slippery category” (1). This compact book, part of Routledge’s New Critical…
Comments closedIt’s been almost a century since E. M. Hull’s Sheikh Ahmed ben Hassan made the brooding, hypersexual sheikh a central figure in Anglophone romance, first…
Comments closedPopular Romance Studies is a new enough field that the canon of relevant scholarship has yet to be established. The expansive, interdisciplinary nature of the…
Comments closedIn 2011, I co-authored an article in the journal Sexuality & Culture describing a study on sexual scripts in romance novels. The paper was entitled,…
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