Introduction During RomBkPod’s July 2020 interview of Beverly Jenkins, podcaster cohost Danielle Amos got emotional when it was her turn to speak: “This isn’t my…
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For almost ten years (2013–2022), I have been teaching a segment on popular romance as part of a course in feminist cultural studies on the…
Comments closedLike so many readers of romance and chick lit, we—Maria Butler, a PhD student at University College Cork, and Rosalind Haslett, a Senior Lecturer in…
Comments closedIn early April, 2007, a group of American, European, and Australian scholars of popular culture dreamed up an academic organization, the International Association for the…
Comments closedIt seems as if censorship is back in vogue. Truthfully, it never really left. I am preparing to teach a course called “Censorship and Obscenity,”…
Comments closedMy engagement with romance when younger was not conscious despite my teenage reading (and watching) list consisting of paranormal romance. My choice was not framed…
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 closedAs Robert Eaglestone says in his chapter in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma, “some critics have argued or even assumed that trauma can…
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