Category: Roundtable Pieces

In Los Angeles in 2004, I sat down next to Pam Regis at the annual conference of the Jane Austen Society of North America—in fact,…

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,…

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…

In the summer or fall of 2005, I went to my local public library to pick up some books on “romance.” I was new to…

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…

At 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…