For those interested in romance teaching:

This call may be of interest to our readers!

New article alert 🚨 A new article by Emily Fuller has just been published on JPRS. Follow the link to read "Breaking Boundaries through the Body: Love, Monogamy, and Heteropessimism in Fredrik Backman’s Fiction": doi.org/10.70138/LXC... #RomanceResearch

📣 Important update regarding this CfP: the submission deadline for our Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman" has been extended until 30 November 2025! 🔗 Find all the relevant information through the JPRS website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/... #RomanceResearch

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Stephenie Meyer's novel "Twilight" is turning 20 this year! 🍎 Follow the link to read "Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries", a JPRS article by Chiho Nakagawa: www.jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%...

This compilation of new publications about romance may be of interest to our readers!

JPRS Archive Dive! We are joining the commemoration of the Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15) by highlighting Nadia Lie’s article “From Latin to Latino Lover: Hispanicity and Female Desire in Popular Culture”. Follow the link to read: www.jprstudies.org/2014/02/from...

This short article may be of interest to our readers!

Quick note! We are aware that our Google search results contain some bogus information. The issue is being dealt with, but for now, use another search engine to find our articles, or go straight to www.jprstudies.org and use our search box there! The site itself is not impacted.

Coolest call for book proposals! #romance #power #desire #AcademicSky #booksky #academicwriting #books

There's been a bit of discussion after Just Like That, Sex and the City's spin-off, ended, so we wanted to highlight a JPRS' article analyzing romance in the original series: "'Just Say Yes': the Romanticisation of Love in Sex and the City", by Beatriz Oria. Link: www.jprstudies.org/2012/10/just...

I am very excited to announce the CfP for our Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman" for JPRS! Please share widely 😀

🚨 This CfP may be of interest to some of our readers! 🗓️ 250-word proposal by November 30, 2025.

We are joining the celebration of #ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) Heritage Month this September by highlighting one of JPRS articles related to the topic. Follow the link to read “Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels”, by Hsu-Ming Teo: doi.org/10.70138/RVX...

The CfP for our Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman" is still open!

The end of August marks the start of the new academic year for many. If you are curious about how teaching popular romance works, read “14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students”, by Karin Heiss: www.jprstudies.org/2015/08/14-w...

Deadline extended (to September 30) for essay proposals: Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2015-2025. drive.google.com/file/d/1p63T...

In the meantime, here's an open access/free article by Johanna Kluger on "Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels" which compares Tessa Dare's A night to surrender (2011) to The wallflower wager (2019) + Sarah MacLean's A rogue by any other name (2012) to The day of the duchess (2017)

JPRS Archive Dive! Since 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, we wanted to highlight Jin Feng's article about Austenian fan fiction. Follow the link to read "Time-Travel to P&P: Web-based Chinese Fanfic of Jane Austen": doi.org/10.70138/GBP...

A CFP that some of our readers might want to check out!

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:

CfP 🚨 The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is now accepting paper submissions for its Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman", focusing on romance, critical love studies and posthumanism: 📆 Deadline: 31 October 2025 📄 Send 300-word abstracts ➕ More information: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...

This article may be of interest to our readers!

Anyone in the mood for a movie? 🍿 Wait until you have read Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado’s article: “Regimes of Affect: Love and Class in Mexican Neoliberal Cinema”. Find it here: www.jprstudies.org/2014/02/regi...

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.

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.

JPRS Archive Dive! Today we wanted to bring back an article that is turning 10 this year 🎂: “True Love’s Kiss and Happily Ever After: the religion of love in American film”, by Jyoti Raghu. Follow the link to find it: www.jprstudies.org/2015/08/true...

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.

New article alert! This week we get to read all about the yuri romance manga genre and its anglophone reception. Follow the link to find “Baited: A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow and the Anglophone Reception of Japanese Yuri Romance Manga”, by Joseph Crawford: doi.org/10.70138/IOE...

No travel plans, daydreaming about a summer trip to Italy? Then this article is for you: “‘He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:’ The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love”, by Francesca Pierini. Find it here: doi.org/10.70138/ICP...

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:

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...

Two new book reviews have been published in JPRS this week! 📚✨ Keep reading to find out more about them: (1/4)

JPRS Archive Dive! The IASPR 2025 Conference takes place this week in Mexico City. To celebrate the occasion, we want to bring back Pamela Regis’ Keynote at the Second Annual Conference of the IASPR, “What Do Critics Owe the Romance?”, published back in 2011. Find it here: tinyurl.com/wbbsz9h5

This article might be of interest to our readers!

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...

Searching for the latest academic article on romance? Look no further: Orsolya Barta and Ann Steiner analyze how unplanned pregnancy features in seven contemporary romance novels in “Between Desire and Responsibility: Unplanned Pregnancies in Contemporary Romance Novels”. doi.org/10.70138/NMN...

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)

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.)

Are you passionate about popular romance scholarship? Do you have editorial experience with an academic journal (or similar)? JPRS has an opportunity for you! We're looking for a new Managing Editor. To learn more about this volunteer position, see the ad here: www.jprstudies.org/journal-of-p...

New year, new volume! JPRS is kicking off 2025 with two Notes and an article about Beverly Jenkins. Click into this thread for more details! (1/4)

Are you passionate about popular romance scholarship? Do you have editorial experience with an academic journal (or similar)? JPRS has an opportunity for you! We're looking for a new Managing Editor. To learn more about this volunteer position, see the ad here: www.jprstudies.org/journal-of-p...

This virtual event might be of interest to our readers!

What happened in JPRS last year? Check out our Executive Editor's Note for a short and sweet round-up of Volume 13. It also contains his farewell--after nearly 20 years of working on JPRS (from its founding!) Eric will be stepping down later this year. Join us in thanking him for his amazing work!

Here are 3 new pieces to round out the week! First: two Notes (short essays related to research, scholarship or teaching). In "Reader, I Included It: Reading Lists and Romance" Kaja Franck reflects on including romance in a Genre Fiction class and what it's like to teach texts you love. (1/3)

Have a new book review to brighten up your week! You can read Justina Clayburn's review of Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film, by Casey Ryan Kelly here: www.jprstudies.org/2024/12/revi...

Good morning Australians! 166 yrs ago today Australian performer Nellie Stewart was born. What is the romance connection? Read "The Private and Public Life of Nellie Stewart’s Bangle" by Annita Boyd to find out, part of our 2014 issue on Romantic Love in Australia: www.jprstudies.org/2014/10/the-...

Our parent organization is here! Check out their CFP for the upcoming 2025 conference.

Last year Jonathan Allan asked "what happens if those primary texts we study are inaccessible to a future researcher? How should the field of popular romance studies begin the process of archiving the primary materials that are studied and talked about?" www.jprstudies.org/2023/09/the-...