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Editorial Board

Editorial Team:

Executive Editor: Eric Selinger, DePaul University, USA (term ends March 2025)
Managing Editor for General Issues: Amy Burge, University of Birmingham, UK (term ends July 2026)
Managing Editor for Special Issues and Forums: Suzanne Mpouli, Université de Paris, France (term ends July 2026)
Section Editor: Young Adult Romance: Amanda K. Allen, Eastern Michigan University, USA (term ends March 2028)
Section Editor: Notes and Queries: Emma Cole, Editor, Harlequin Intrigue (term ends February 2027)
Book Review Editor: Johanna Hoorenman, Utrecht University, Netherlands (term ends March 2025)
Web Editor: Sarah H. Ficke, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA (term ends March 2025)

Editorial Board:

Jonathan A. Allan Brandon University, Canada

Men and Masculinities; Sexuality; Pornography and Eroticism; Censorship and Obscenity; Theories of Gender; Psychoanalysis

Joseph Crawford, University of Exeter, UK

Paranormal romance, Gothic romance, history of romance, romance comics and manga, Jane Austen

Kathrina Haji Mohd Daud, Brunei University, Brunei

Bruneian Literature, Popular Fiction, Global Islamic Literature

Catherine Driscoll, University of Sydney, Australia

Cultural Studies

Javaria Farooqui, COMSATS University, Lahore, Pakistan

Regency historical romance; romance readers; romance ecosystem; romance on screen

Paloma Fresno Calleja, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Postcolonial literatures, cultural studies, popular romance, New Zealand and Pacific literatures

William Gleason, Princeton University, USA

American Literature, Cultural Studies

María Isabel González Cruz, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Romance and language; intercultural romance; romance and interdisciplinarity; romance and environmental awareness

Michael Gratzke, University of Hull, UK

German and Comparative Literature, Love Studies

Margo Hendricks, UC Santa Cruz, USA

Race, fiction, popular culture, performance

Betty Kaklamanidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Romantic comedy, film, Hollywood, genre, television, adaptation studies

Jennifer Lois, Western Washington University, USA

Sociology of gender, stigma of sexuality, emotions and identity, creative careers, artistic identities

Katherine (Katie) Morrisey, Arizona State University, USA

Film and media studies

Lynn Neal, Wake Forest University, USA

Religious Study

Lynne Pearce, Lancaster University, UK

Theories of romantic love and altered states of consciousness, affective consciousness, temporality and memory

Pamela Regis, McDaniel College, USA

The romance genre, history of the American Romance, Jane Austen

Catherine M. Roach, The University of Alabama, USA

Gender and sexuality, popular culture, romance narratives, creative writing

Hsu-Ming Teo, Macquarie University, Australia

Twentieth-century European history, British imperial culture, Orientalism, travel and tourism, popular literature

Laura Vivanco, Independent Scholar

Literary, political and spiritual approaches to the popular romance novel

Huike Wen, Willamette University, USA

Media Studies; Love and Emotion in media; Romantic Love and media ecology; Gender Studies; Asian Studies