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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · 10d

JPRS Archive Dive! We are joining the commemoration of the Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15) by highlighting Nadia Lie’s article “From Latin to Latino Lover: Hispanicity and Female Desire in Popular Culture”. Follow the link to read: www.jprstudies.org/2014/02/from...

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · 12d

This short article may be of interest to our readers!

Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · 18d

@dramyburge.bsky.social and Joseph Crawford have a short article out on the legacy and impact of Twilight

Twilight at 20: how Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga changed young adult fiction forever

In 2005, Twilight’s adolescent female readership made it a target for mockery. Today, that same demographic is the most coveted in publishing.

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · 14d

Quick note! We are aware that our Google search results contain some bogus information. The issue is being dealt with, but for now, use another search engine to find our articles, or go straight to www.jprstudies.org and use our search box there! The site itself is not impacted.

Journal of Popular Romance Studies

The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is an interdisciplinary journal exploring popular romance media and other instances of romantic love in global culture.

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Javaria Farooqui @javariafarooqui.bsky.social · 22d

Coolest call for book proposals!

#romance #power #desire #AcademicSky #booksky #academicwriting #books

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Sep 10

There's been a bit of discussion after Just Like That, Sex and the City's spin-off, ended, so we wanted to highlight a JPRS' article analyzing romance in the original series: "'Just Say Yes': the Romanticisation of Love in Sex and the City", by Beatriz Oria. Link: www.jprstudies.org/2012/10/just...

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Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social · Sep 9

I am very excited to announce the CfP for our Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman" for JPRS! Please share widely 😀

Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Aug 7

CfP 🚨 The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is now accepting paper submissions for its Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman", focusing on romance, critical love studies and posthumanism:

📆 Deadline: 31 October 2025
📄 Send 300-word abstracts
➕ More information: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...

Special Issue Call for Papers | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

JPRS publishes special issues on a range of topics relating to the study of romantic love and its representations. These issues contain at least 3 articles on their shared topic, as well as an introdu...

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Sep 6

🚨 This CfP may be of interest to some of our readers!

🗓️ 250-word proposal by November 30, 2025.

Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · Sep 3

Romance area chairs @jodimca.bsky.social and @heatherschell.bsky.social have put out the call for papers for PCA 2026!

"Scholars, romance writers, romance readers/viewers, romance industry professionals, librarians, and any combination of these are welcome."

Popular Culture Association

The Romance Area of the National Popular Culture Association is soliciting abstracts for the next annual conference, to held April 8-11, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Sep 3

We are joining the celebration of #ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) Heritage Month this September by highlighting one of JPRS articles related to the topic. Follow the link to read “Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels”, by Hsu-Ming Teo: doi.org/10.70138/RVX...

Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

[End Page 1] In 2018 the film Crazy Rich Asians[1] was released to much fanfare and publicity, earning nominations at the Golden Globes and other awards, and grossing $174,532,921 in the United States...

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Sep 2

The CfP for our Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman" is still open!

Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Aug 7

CfP 🚨 The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is now accepting paper submissions for its Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman", focusing on romance, critical love studies and posthumanism:

📆 Deadline: 31 October 2025
📄 Send 300-word abstracts
➕ More information: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...

Special Issue Call for Papers | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

JPRS publishes special issues on a range of topics relating to the study of romantic love and its representations. These issues contain at least 3 articles on their shared topic, as well as an introdu...

www.jprstudies.org

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Aug 27

The end of August marks the start of the new academic year for many. If you are curious about how teaching popular romance works, read “14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students”, by Karin Heiss: www.jprstudies.org/2015/08/14-w...

14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

[End Page 1] In February 2012, after finishing my Magister thesis on the popular Regency romance and getting my degree,[1] I was offered the opportunity to become a doctoral candidate at the Friedrich...

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Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social · Aug 20

Deadline extended (to September 30) for essay proposals: Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2015-2025. drive.google.com/file/d/1p63T...

Love and Resistance CFP.pdf

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Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · Aug 20

In the meantime, here's an open access/free article by Johanna Kluger on "Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels" which compares Tessa Dare's A night to surrender (2011) to The wallflower wager (2019) + Sarah MacLean's A rogue by any other name (2012) to The day of the duchess (2017)

Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels - Neohelicon

As an almost exclusively female-dominated medium, the popular romance novel has, throughout its history, allowed women writers to “amplify their political voice” (Teo, 2016, p. 102), especially when t...

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Aug 20

JPRS Archive Dive! Since 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, we wanted to highlight Jin Feng's article about Austenian fan fiction. Follow the link to read "Time-Travel to P&P: Web-based Chinese Fanfic of Jane Austen": doi.org/10.70138/GBP...

Time-Travel to P&P: Web-based Chinese Fanfic of Jane Austen | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

Occupying a secure place in both “the solemn pantheon of classic English literature and the exuberantly commercial realm of pop culture” in the West (Yaffe xvii), Jane Austen’s works have also generat...

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Aug 12

A CFP that some of our readers might want to check out!

Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social · Aug 11

Call for Proposals--deadline one week from today--for "Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2015-2025" (book project; I'm one of the co-editors) teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2025/08/cfp-...

CFP: Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2015-2025

The first election of Donald Trump sparked a series of "Rogue" romance anthologies that framed love as resistance, and the romance genre as ...

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Aug 7

Prof. Bridget Kies is conducting a research study to understand the attitudes romance readers and writers have toward generative artificial intelligence use in the romance industry:

Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · Jul 19

Are you a reader or writer of romance? Do you have big feelings, positive or negative, about generative AI? Take this survey (about 15 min) conducted by @bridgetkies.bsky.social
to share your thoughts!
oakland.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#romancereaders #romancelandia #romancewriters

Romance and AI Survey

Survey of romance authors' and readers' attitudes toward generative AI

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Special Issue is jointly edited by Hanna Hoorenman and Evvie Valliou.

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Aug 7

CfP 🚨 The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is now accepting paper submissions for its Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman", focusing on romance, critical love studies and posthumanism:

📆 Deadline: 31 October 2025
📄 Send 300-word abstracts
➕ More information: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...

Special Issue Call for Papers | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

JPRS publishes special issues on a range of topics relating to the study of romantic love and its representations. These issues contain at least 3 articles on their shared topic, as well as an introdu...

www.jprstudies.org

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Aug 7

This article may be of interest to our readers!

Eva Liu @evaliumedia.bsky.social · Dec 2

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨

Excited to share my latest article: When feminist awareness clashes with romance in games: a feminist reception study of otome gamers in China, now out in Chinese Journal of Communication! 📰

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Jul 30

Anyone in the mood for a movie? 🍿 Wait until you have read Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado’s article: “Regimes of Affect: Love and Class in Mexican Neoliberal Cinema”. Find it here: www.jprstudies.org/2014/02/regi...

Regimes of Affect: Love and Class in Mexican Neoliberal Cinema | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

The recent rise in the study of affect and emotions within different paradigms of cultural studies opens many questions relevant to the study of Mexican and Latin American cinema.[1] It has led to the...

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Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · Jul 25

Just noting that the "secret baby" plot's been around a long time. This article (in Spanish) discusses a Spanish romance from 1938 in which the heroine, discovering she's only been married for her money, disappears while pregnant, intent on living as a single mother.

De la novela rosa a la comedia romántica: Mi marido es usted (1938), de Mercedes Ballesteros, y el guion de Volver a soñar (1942), de Claudio de la Torre y José López Rubio | Ogigia. Revista Electrónica de Estudios Hispánicos

Aguilar, Santiago y Cabrerizo, Felipe (2013), “En la vida de Claudio y Josefina de la Torre”, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 751, pp. 107-132.

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · Jul 27

Some new research from @dramyburge.bsky.social and me! We have an article in Text arising from our research project on bonkbusters. This one is about our bonkbuster book club on Lace (1982) by Shirley Conran, and what we found from reading it together with our research participants.

Bonkbuster Book Club: Reading then, reading now | Published in TEXT

By Amy Burge, Jodi McAlister. The “bonkbuster” – lengthy books by women centring on sex, relationships and scandal – was a popular genre in the 1970s–1990s. This article explores findings from our Bon...

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Jul 23

JPRS Archive Dive! Today we wanted to bring back an article that is turning 10 this year 🎂: “True Love’s Kiss and Happily Ever After: the religion of love in American film”, by Jyoti Raghu. Follow the link to find it: www.jprstudies.org/2015/08/true...

True Love’s Kiss and Happily Ever After: the religion of love in American film | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

[End Page 1] Introduction In this article, I investigate romantic love in American film as a site for experiencing a divine presence in the immanent everyday experiences of love, marriage and family (...

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Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · Jul 9

This roundup of new work in romance scholarship is very long, because new things kept coming to my notice before I'd been able to read the ones I already knew about. I've finally caught up! I've mentioned quite a lot of them here already, but hopefully there'll still be things there of interest.

New Publications: The Meaning of Life and Work; Sexuality; Race; Language; the Environment and More

I probably should have posted this list before it got so long, but more and more notifications kept arriving in my inbox and I kept thinking...

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Jul 16

New article alert! This week we get to read all about the yuri romance manga genre and its anglophone reception. Follow the link to find “Baited: A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow and the Anglophone Reception of Japanese Yuri Romance Manga”, by Joseph Crawford: doi.org/10.70138/IOE...

Baited: A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow and the Anglophone Reception of Japanese Yuri Romance Manga | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

Compared to the better-known genre of “boys’ love” manga, the Japanese tradition of yuri romance manga has received limited scholarly attention in the West. Also known as “girls’ love” manga, yuri dea...

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Jul 9

No travel plans, daydreaming about a summer trip to Italy? Then this article is for you: “‘He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:’ The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love”, by Francesca Pierini. Find it here: doi.org/10.70138/ICP...

“He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

[End Page 1] This paper investigates two popular historical novels, Marina Fiorato’s The Glassblower of Murano (2008) and Anne Fortier’s Juliet (2010), in order to shed light on a discourse of pure or...

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