Coming soon, a groundbreaking anthology of Indian Australian writing Michelle Cahill Sharon Verghis. Kishor Sunil Badami Tasneem Chopra OAM @zoyajpatel Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa Rachael Jacobs Rakhee Ghelani Swagata bapat Mia Pandey Gordon Eds Aarti Betigeri @BlackIncBooks bit.ly/4bsjXaX

So excited that the CUP Element I wrote with Elizabeth Leane is published and free online for two weeks! Space, Place and Bestsellers: Moving Books.

I am late to reading this from Dr Yves Rees La Trobe University - excellent piece, much to ponder: Australia’s feminists are finally being memorialised. Can we grapple with their racism? via Crikey crikey.com.au/2024/06/14/aus… Ping @SzelingGood Khwanruethai Ngampromwongse @TandeeWang Sreepurna

Resonating hard with Penelope Joy from a different field but similar stage in the PhD journey

My friend Prithu Halder is TA for this really exciting #NPTEL course on Indian popular culture. The undergrad version of me was desperately looking for the kind of content listed for Weeks 5-8. Glad this exists now! ✨ Registrations: onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc24_hs180/pr…

She is loved, she is missed. Amelia Fua Hausia australianmissingpersonsregister.com/ampr/Hausia.htm National Missing Persons Week runs from 28th July to 3rd August. This years theme is "Always Searching"

My upcoming monograph, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan," has received lovely reviews from amazing romance scholars Jodi McAlister, Dr Amy Burge and Profromance, Ph.D. ❤️ The reviews are now posted on the Bloomsbury website. #Romance #Fanstudies #fandoms #RomanceReaders #mybook

Such a fun experience presenting at the Romancing Academia symposium arranged by Flinders University, as part of the RWAus conference. Presented on Saman Shad (Saman Shad)'s beautiful novel The Matchmaker and the ways in which we read, discuss, and access tropes.

Left for Adelaide with one South Asian romance novel in my bag, returned with two 🤭 (+ one other book I bought in the airport)

Why are authors expected to be ‘authentic’? theconversation.com/why-are-author… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Ping Sreepurna 🧐🧐🧐

Love love love the work #PhDVoices ❤❤

Delighted to announce that the CFP for the next IASPR conference, scheduled for June 2025 UNAM in Mexico City, is now live. CFP submission deadline is Nov. 30. See iaspr.org for details.

I can't tell if I'd rather teach for this class or be a student, but either sounds fun.

Hi, We are looking for Early Career Researchers to send in their abstracts for this panel. A week to go: 22nd October 2024 (Tuesday) #Asianmedia #marginality #precarity #vulnerability. We also aim to take this forward as a special issue. Feel free to reach out for any concerns.

Congratulations Dr. Javaria Farooqui, this is SUCH an important addition of romance studies!

A good exhibit of why I am a Simone Murray fangirl (v v intentional word choice) read.dukeupress.edu/poetics-today/…

This little book chapter is out now, along with a bunch of fabulous essays on holiday romances in the Under the Mistletoe collection: mcfarlandbooks.com/product/under-…

2 days left until deadline! Romancing Academia is a one-day academic symposium for sharing research in the field of popular romance. The symposium is to be held in Hobart, on 22nd August, 2025. CFP link: willorganise.eventsair.com/2025-romance-w…