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Last November, the Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University held a two-day conference on “The Radicalism of Romantic Love: Critical Perspectives.”  The conference conveners,…

Change is in the air at the Journal of Popular Romance Studies! Since our last issue, we have almost doubled the size of our Editorial…

Just over a year ago, scholars from around the world gathered at the Fales Library and Special Collections of New York University, for the Third…

Five years ago, at a hotel bar in Boston, Sarah S. G. Frantz and I sat down with a half-dozen scholars from the U.S., Australia,…

In August, 2010, thirty-one scholars from four continents gathered in Brussels for the second annual International Conference on Popular Romance Studies sponsored by the International…

The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is dedicated to publishing scholarship on romantic love in global popular media, now and in the past, along with…

Is there an academic field of Popular Romance Studies? Certainly scholars from many disciplines have studied the ways that love is represented in—and has been…