Prof. Bridget Kies is conducting a research study to understand the attitudes romance readers and writers have toward generative artificial intelligence use in the romance industry:
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De la novela rosa a la comedia romántica: Mi marido es usted (1938), de Mercedes Ballesteros, y el guion de Volver a soñar (1942), de Claudio de la Torre y José López Rubio | Ogigia. Revista Electrónica de Estudios Hispánicos
Aguilar, Santiago y Cabrerizo, Felipe (2013), “En la vida de Claudio y Josefina de la Torre”, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 751, pp. 107-132.
Just noting that the "secret baby" plot's been around a long time. This article (in Spanish) discusses a Spanish romance from 1938 in which the heroine, discovering she's only been married for her money, disappears while pregnant, intent on living as a single mother.
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Bonkbuster Book Club: Reading then, reading now | Published in TEXT
By Amy Burge, Jodi McAlister. The “bonkbuster” – lengthy books by women centring on sex, relationships and scandal – was a popular genre in the 1970s–1990s. This article explores findings from our Bon...
Some new research from @dramyburge.bsky.social and me! We have an article in Text arising from our research project on bonkbusters. This one is about our bonkbuster book club on Lace (1982) by Shirley Conran, and what we found from reading it together with our research participants.
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New Publications: The Meaning of Life and Work; Sexuality; Race; Language; the Environment and More
I probably should have posted this list before it got so long, but more and more notifications kept arriving in my inbox and I kept thinking...
This roundup of new work in romance scholarship is very long, because new things kept coming to my notice before I'd been able to read the ones I already knew about. I've finally caught up! I've mentioned quite a lot of them here already, but hopefully there'll still be things there of interest.
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No one has written about M&B’s colonial library and its contribution to the company’s success, yet M&B – especially after it was acquired by Harlequin – became recognized and valued for its international network of female readers and writers. HMB’s strong international presence ultimately attracted the attention of News Corp/HarperCollins, which acquired HMB in 2014 for close to a quarter of a billion dollars. At the time of the sale ninety-nine percent of HarperCollins’ revenue came from English-language markets. By contrast, forty percent of HMB’s revenue came from books published in languages other than English.
New article by Denise H. Sutton on the history of Harlequin Mills & Boon in India www.proquest.com/scholarly-jo...
Sutton emphasises the importance of the non-UK market to UK publishers:
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The cover of The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Romance in the Long 1980s. It's pink leopard print.
Cover reveal! @dramyburge.bsky.social and I revealed the cover of our new academic book, The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long 1980s, at the @iaspr.bsky.social conference today. Out January 2026! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bonkbuste...
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Javaria Farooqui (@javariafarooqui.bsky.social) reviews Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine’s Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation (2023), by Jayashree Kamblé (@profromance.bsky.social). Find the review here: doi.org/10.70138/TXE... (3/4)
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Morgan Myong Jakobcic reviews Orgasmic Bodies: The Orgasm in Contemporary Western Culture (2015), by Hannah Frith. Find the review here: doi.org/10.70138/WTR... (2/4)
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Two new book reviews have been published in JPRS this week! 📚✨ Keep reading to find out more about them: (1/4)
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Special Issue: Queering Popular Romance | Journal of Popular Romance Studies
JPRS Archive Dive! Considering June is #PrideMonth, we want to bring back a Special Issue published in 2016: “Queering Popular Romance”. Read the introduction by Andrea Wood and five very interesting and diverse articles on the topic here: www.jprstudies.org/issues/issue...
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Mid-year update coming your way! Two new Notes have been published recently in JPRS. Both of them are part of the Instigations series about how scholars got into popular romance studies. Click the thread to find out more about them: (1/3)
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2025 Registration – International Association for the Study of Popular Romance
Registration for the next meeting of @iaspr.bsky.social is live! www.iaspr.org/conferences/... (You also need to be a IASPR member to present so up that membership if you haven’t yet.)
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We're always thrilled to get submissions about your work! It's the gift that keeps on giving, truly.
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The Religious Work of Beverly Jenkins’s Black Historical Romance | Journal of Popular Romance Studies
Introduction During RomBkPod’s July 2020 interview of Beverly Jenkins, podcaster cohost Danielle Amos got emotional when it was her turn to speak: “This isn’t my question, but I just wanted to let you...
Our first research article of 2025 is from Jeania Ree V. Moore who works at the intersection of African American Studies and Religious Studies with a special focus on Beverly Jenkins. In "The Religious Work of Beverly Jenkins’s Black Historical Romance" she examines novels and reader responses (4/4)
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The Activist Potential of Marian Keyes’ Irish Chick Lit | Journal of Popular Romance Studies
Like so many readers of romance and chick lit, we—Maria Butler, a PhD student at University College Cork, and Rosalind Haslett, a Senior Lecturer in theatre and performance at Newcastle University—bot...
The first of our Notes is part of the Instigations series about how scholars got into popular romance studies. Here, we have Rosalind Haslett and Maria Butler digging into their convergent romance origin stories in "The Activist Potential of Marian Keyes’ Irish Chick Lit" (2/4)
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Associate Professor of popular fiction. Romance specialist. Managing Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Network Lead for Muslim Women's Popular Fiction project. She/her. Currently writing about bonkbusters with @jodimca.bsky.social
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