Romance scholars, a CFP for you!

Tänään ķouluttamassa Terhi Väisäsen kanssa Pirkanmaan eroverkostoa #sateenkaarieroasioissa. #LGBTQIA Olipa antoisaa, kiitos kutsusta! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

ANNOUNCEMENT: NACHE is excited to share its new open access lecture series on the history of emotions ✨ feat. parallel presentations in English and Spanish on love, happiness, nostalgia, shame, anger, and fear from a range of scholars in the field! (1/3) nachemotion.wordpress.com/teaching/open-…

I rambled as usual, but do listen if you like ramblings abt #romance & have thoughts abt heroines in the genre. (And use that code--I sought out Indiana University Press because I found their pricing to be accessible for the non-academic library audience). Thnx for having me back Shelf Love: Taking Romance Novels Srsly since 2019!

Please welcome our newest member Mark Vernon, a writer and psychotherapist based in London (UK).

Marriage equality eludes Japan's same-sex couples bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

The Program is finalised for the 2023 loveresearch.info Symposium. 10 presenters from 6 countries talking about love in romantic relationships! 12:00 EDT (18:00 CEST) on Friday 27 October. Check the website for Program and zoom link. loveresearch.info/symposium

If seeking PhD scholarship funding, esp. sexuality and gender topics, email [email protected] . UK ESRC 1+3 or +3 scholarships, can include 1 year Masters, via SGSSS, open to international applicants. Deadline 1 December so be in touch ASAP sgsss.ac.uk/studentships/o…

I'm thrilled my first monograph is now available as an ebook and paperback. It look at full-time #fathers in #NYC and how they navigate and negotiate #masculinities, #work, #relationships and more. You can get in touch with me to discuss.

Looking forward to my @GothicRomancing talk "Jinns, Muhabbat and Mithai" in the short stories of Ayesha Muzaffar, scheduled for 12th November. Registration is free! #horror #fiction #Pakistan

We have reopened submissions for abstracts! We are looking for abstracts that engage with 30 years of SRO history, reflecting on the impact articles and authors have had or a recognition of thematic absences in our publication. New deadline 30 November! britsoc.co.uk/media/26320/sr…

"With the growing trend of singlehood, never married individuals, women having fewer children on average, and single-parent families, the support systems that families traditionally offer will no longer be available for older adults." thesocietypages.org/ccf/2023/10/17…

Working on the draft of my online talk, "Jinns, Muhabbat, and Mithai," in the short stories of Ayesha Muzzaffar. If interested, do register a free spot at RomancingTheGothic for 12th Nov eventbrite.co.uk/e/502980276547… #horror #PakistaniLiterature #gothic #AcWriMo

Welcome back, dear readers. Our literary journey eagerly anticipates your return. Save the dates: 💕📖 - Tue 28th Nov, 18:30-19:30 GMT: You made a Fool of Death with your Beauty ☀️ 💕📖 - Tues 12th Dec, 18:30-19:30 GMT: Dash & Lily 🎄 💕📖 Excited to reunite with you all!

#CallForSpeakers: Want to share your research on love or #SocialConnection with a vibrant community of scholars? Submit your research to present at the 2024 #TLCLoveConference May 15-17 in Chapel Hill, NC, USA! Full details: theloveconsortium.org/so/b8OkrU35T #CallForSubmissions

Just finished Akwaeke Emezi’s novel and can’t wait to discuss age-gap dating, power dynamics, the popular/literary divide and its mixed reviews… See you all on 28th November at 6:30pm GMT! #YoumadeaFoolofDeathwithyourBeauty

Food for thought on the Single'S day! Our #openaccess article 'Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity' published earlier this year. With Marjo Kolehmainen and Anu Kinnunen. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

You really can’t seriously study romance novels without confronting how it’s mass media commercially produced by major corporations, and has traditionally centered whiteness. The whole underdog narrative of “centering women” elides the reality that it centers WHITE women.

New romance scholarship! CW:rape Valerie Grace Derbyshire analyzes Penny Jordan's use of rape as an unromantic trope to critique gender discrimination "'Do you think I haven’t paid for what I did?': Rape in the Mills & Boon Romantic Novels of Penny Jordan" jprstudies.org/2023/11/do-you…