How It Began Introductions are, by their nature, signposts. Signposts that guide readers, provide informational cadences, and justify what falls between page one and page…
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In April 2017, a group of romance novelists, bloggers, publisher representatives, and scholars from across three continents met in rural New England at Williams College…
Comments closedFour years ago, during a discussion, my friend Mark Duffett of Chester University and I noticed that a central aspect of rock music (the term…
Comments closedThe Journal of Popular Romance Studies started out as an interdisciplinary journal exploring popular romance fiction, mostly in print. It has steadily been expanding its…
Comments closedIn 1997, Kay Mussell called upon scholars of popular romance “to incorporate analysis of lesbian and gay romances into our mostly heterosexual models” (12). Today,…
Comments closedPopular romance collections in libraries of all kinds—public, academic, and special—have faced their fair share of controversies. These can be as simple as whether or…
Comments closedA couple of years ago I put out a call for papers for a project on the popular culture of romantic love in Australia. The…
Comments closedBy one of those quirks that make language so fascinating, in Spanish the word romance, although in common use to refer to a love story,…
Comments closed“Nothing But Good Times Ahead” marks the first of what will be an ongoing series of Special Features at the Journal of Popular Romance Studies: …
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