Kristin Noone (Irvine Valley College) Session 12.4: Love in Other Worlds Abstract: In a recent blog post, award-winning romance author Alexis Hall comments that “something we’re grappling with as twenty-first …
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“Outlander’s Tactile Caress: a Multisensory Romance”
Athena Bellas (University of Melbourne) Session 12.3: Love in Other Worlds Abstract: Much of the existing literature on television series Outlander (STARZ 2014– ) emphasises its prioritisation of a female …
Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Nalini Singh and J.R. Ward
María T. Ramos-García (South Dakota State University) Session 12.2: Love in Other Worlds Abstract: There is currently a very heated debate in progress regarding diversity in the romance novel in …
Love in Outer Space: Science fiction romance — the ideal place to explore gender and love
Donna Hanson, University of Canberra Session 12.1: Love in Other Worlds Abstract: Science fiction romance disregards localities in time and space and extends ‘romancelandia’ beyond present human frontiers and cultural …
Love is (Color) Blind: Race, Belonging, and Nation in 21st Century Historical Romance Fiction
Mallory Jagodzinski (Indiana University South Bend) Session 11.2: Subversions of Race, Culture and History Abstract: This paper incorporates the space and place theme of IASPR 2018 by examining how three …
‘You stayed’: Love, law and the reservation in Jenna Kernan’s Apache Protectors series
Johanna Hoorenman (Utrecht University) Session 11.3: Subversions of Race, Culture and History Abstract: Native American themed romance has long been one of the most popular subgenres of popular romance. For …
The Wild Heart of the Continent: Love and Place in Sherry Thomas’s Silk Road Romance Novels
Eric Murphy Selinger (DePaul University) Session 11.1: Subversions of Race, Culture and History Abstract: Chinese-American novelist Sherry Thomas sets two acclaimed books in the Silk Road regions of Central Asia: …
In conversation with Mina V. Esguerra – #romanceclass
Kat Mayo (Bookthingo) and Mina V. Esguerra (#romanceclass) Session 10.2: South / South-East Asian Romance Communities Abstract: Author Mina V. Esguerra has single-handedly defined the English-language romance genre in the …
Negotiating romantic love in India: Family, Public Space and Popular Cinema
Meghna Bohidar (University of Delhi) Session 10.1: South / South-East Asian Romance Communities This paper highlights some particularities of the romance culture produced in India by popular Hindi cinema from …
Romance in Chinatown: The Love Stories of Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914)
Dr Erin S.Young (SUNY Empire State College) Session 9.4: Romancing Chinese Worlds Abstract: This project will explore romantic relationships in the short fiction of Edith Maude Eaton (Sui Sin Far), …