Eric Selinger
@emselinger.bsky.social
Poetry maven turned popular romance scholar. Founding Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Off-hours singer and lyricist for the JRC Alte Rockers.
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Joseph Crawford 's written an open access essay which addresses ethical issues he's considered while teaching a course about romantic fiction.
‘I'm Alright, It's Just so Horrible’: Teaching Romance Fictions, Pre‐ and Post‐#MeToo
This article discusses the author’s experiences of teaching the history of romance fiction to undergraduate students from 2013 to 2024, with a particular emphasis on changing approaches to teaching r...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Joseph Crawford 's written an open access essay which addresses ethical issues he's considered while teaching a course about romantic fiction.
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This call may be of interest to our readers!
Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
Romance and/or Erotica
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of research interest under the heading of: Romance and/or Erotica
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November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This call may be of interest to our readers!
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Okay USA, I know you have plenty of other things going on at the moment, but my new book An Academic Affair will be released in your country in only a few weeks (11 November!!), and if you wanted to pre-order it, I would simply love that.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...
October 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Okay USA, I know you have plenty of other things going on at the moment, but my new book An Academic Affair will be released in your country in only a few weeks (11 November!!), and if you wanted to pre-order it, I would simply love that.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...
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Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
Romance and/or Erotica
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of research interest under the heading of: Romance and/or Erotica
www.falmouth.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
They're so cute! I had no idea!
Rama Duwaji and her husband Zoran Mandami casting their vote in New York.
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
They're so cute! I had no idea!
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Men seldom make passes
At Ozymandiasses
At Ozymandiasses
i never saw two trunkless legs
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em
Now Ozymandias was from the Himalayas, where a cold wind howls and blows.
Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows.
His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare;
Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"
Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows.
His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare;
Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"
October 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Men seldom make passes
At Ozymandiasses
At Ozymandiasses
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final project guidelines for both grad and undergrad seminars:
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
final project guidelines for both grad and undergrad seminars:
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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what else can we do? what do we want to do? what feels good? (thinking. making, making ideas....) how can I help you know you want to do this stuff? EDUCATION IS THE NONCOERCIVE REARRANGEMENT OF DESIRE and that includes the teacher's (thanks, Spivak)
October 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
what else can we do? what do we want to do? what feels good? (thinking. making, making ideas....) how can I help you know you want to do this stuff? EDUCATION IS THE NONCOERCIVE REARRANGEMENT OF DESIRE and that includes the teacher's (thanks, Spivak)
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As I considered Hegel’s remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice, I couldn’t help but think that he forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
October 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
As I considered Hegel’s remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice, I couldn’t help but think that he forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
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Well, I bet this 1848 Wuthering Heights reviewer feels like a wally now
October 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Well, I bet this 1848 Wuthering Heights reviewer feels like a wally now
Romance 'sky, a question for you! My students are loving Bolu Babalola's "Honey & Spice" in part because it's a university-set student romance, and I'd love any recommendations you might have for other recent books with that setting & cast of characters. Might be a fun course focus.
October 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Romance 'sky, a question for you! My students are loving Bolu Babalola's "Honey & Spice" in part because it's a university-set student romance, and I'd love any recommendations you might have for other recent books with that setting & cast of characters. Might be a fun course focus.
Listening to a podcast about Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass" and the first thing the podcaster says about the poem is that it was written in the '60s and reflects the Civil Rights movement. It was, in fact, published in The Atlantic in February 1947: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Frederick Douglass
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October 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Listening to a podcast about Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass" and the first thing the podcaster says about the poem is that it was written in the '60s and reflects the Civil Rights movement. It was, in fact, published in The Atlantic in February 1947: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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I am an academic - hello from the Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance! - so if you want a book that shows what it's really like out there in universities (while still having a HEA!!): An Academic Affair is for you.
An Academic Affair
From the “masterly” (The New York Times) Jodi McAlister, a charming new romance about two English professors who embark on a fake relationship…only...
www.simonandschuster.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I am an academic - hello from the Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance! - so if you want a book that shows what it's really like out there in universities (while still having a HEA!!): An Academic Affair is for you.
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The Platner defenders can't even get their story straight. He doesn't claim growth; he claims he didn't know what it was until a few weeks ago.
And that's apparently a lie, because people heard him calling it "my Totenkopf" like 15 years ago, and lying shows the opposite of growth.
And that's apparently a lie, because people heard him calling it "my Totenkopf" like 15 years ago, and lying shows the opposite of growth.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Platner defenders can't even get their story straight. He doesn't claim growth; he claims he didn't know what it was until a few weeks ago.
And that's apparently a lie, because people heard him calling it "my Totenkopf" like 15 years ago, and lying shows the opposite of growth.
And that's apparently a lie, because people heard him calling it "my Totenkopf" like 15 years ago, and lying shows the opposite of growth.
Off to teach the end of Hadestown and the start of Katrina Jackson's Back in the Day. Summer me made some good choices for this syllabus. Thanks, summer me!
October 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Off to teach the end of Hadestown and the start of Katrina Jackson's Back in the Day. Summer me made some good choices for this syllabus. Thanks, summer me!
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Congratulations Vajra!
ICYMI: here is our deep dive together into RAKESFALL, the winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/vajr...
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ICYMI: here is our deep dive together into RAKESFALL, the winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/vajr...
@ursulakleguin.com @vajra.me
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Congratulations Vajra!
ICYMI: here is our deep dive together into RAKESFALL, the winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/vajr...
@ursulakleguin.com @vajra.me
ICYMI: here is our deep dive together into RAKESFALL, the winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/vajr...
@ursulakleguin.com @vajra.me
In a reading slump, I was rereading Le Guin last night--taking this prize as a sign to start rereading Chandrasekera instead.
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
vajra.me
October 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In a reading slump, I was rereading Le Guin last night--taking this prize as a sign to start rereading Chandrasekera instead.
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Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
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ICYMI
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October 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
ICYMI
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📣 Important update regarding this CfP: the submission deadline for our Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman" has been extended until 30 November 2025!
🔗 Find all the relevant information through the JPRS website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...
#RomanceResearch
🔗 Find all the relevant information through the JPRS website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...
#RomanceResearch
October 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
📣 Important update regarding this CfP: the submission deadline for our Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman" has been extended until 30 November 2025!
🔗 Find all the relevant information through the JPRS website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...
#RomanceResearch
🔗 Find all the relevant information through the JPRS website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...
#RomanceResearch
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October 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.
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People always take whatever they want from art. (Part of the reason it is silly so many people fret over whether the "right" messages are in novels and movies.) Musk names spaceships after anarchist space operas. Paul Ryan works out to RATM. Better art isn't going to save a right-wing brain.
I wonder sometimes if it would have helped at all if they'd read Le Guin, Butler, and Jemisin as well as Tolkien and Gibson. But given how wildly they misunderstood Tolkien and Gibson and even Iain M. Banks, I don't know that it would have.
I think Kendra's right about Thiel and a lot of other people. A thought I often find myself having is, "Did these people read the same books I did? Did [tech billionaire, any of them] think, 'Yes, I want to control everyone else like that,' and if so, why do they lack empathy and critical thinking?"
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
People always take whatever they want from art. (Part of the reason it is silly so many people fret over whether the "right" messages are in novels and movies.) Musk names spaceships after anarchist space operas. Paul Ryan works out to RATM. Better art isn't going to save a right-wing brain.
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We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...