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: Romance In Academia
April 03, 2012 | Tuesday | 25 Comments
In March, a book of acdemic essays was published by Mcfarland titled New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction (McFarland | Amazon). There are many different perspectives included in the book, including an essay I wrote about the use of the word "bitch" to describe ourselves, the website, and its community. I asked Sarah Frantz and Eric Selinger, the editors of the book, some questions about it so they could share some information about it and how it might be of interest to more than just the academic community. What are 5 things the average romance reader who is not an academic might find…
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July 04, 2009 | Saturday | 10 Comments
Thanks to Dr. Vivanco, who is 200 times more cool than “Los Vivancos,” we have… an academic paper about you. No, really. Awhile back Candy and I were contacted by a grad student doing an ethnographic study of the Bitchery style of communication. Miriam Greenfield Benovitz presented her paper, “The Interactive Online Romance Community: Contests and ‘Covers Gone Wild’” at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association in May 2008, and her paper has been made available online. You can find a link to the PDF on that page. Another link to the PDF can be found at the…
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May 17, 2009 | Sunday | 6 Comments
I’m a few days tardy on this announcement, which makes me a really crappy board member, but as said board member, I invite you to join IASPR, which is the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Or, I Am Sereeus Profssur uf Romanze. You can join online at the IASPR website. Since the collaborative scholarship that focuses on the genre has revealed a lot more of the critical elements at work within the genre, encouraging and fostering that development is a good thing. Plus, to kick things off with fun and romance, Eric Selinger is having a fundraiser:…
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