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

Sharing Ayesha Muzaffer's " Bhabies of Lahore" again because it is a very indigenous, very cultural brand of horror. The stories know the difference between a churail and a ghost & show why certain nights feel heavier in our part of the world. Cool, spooky, and South Asian! #horror #pakistan

Got Rosemary Pennington's very interesting book, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media," from the book exhibit at PCA, NO, 2025. I've loved the chapter on Ms Marvel Kamala Khan. Conference book hauls are best! #bookhaul #popislam #amreading #AcademicSky #msmarvel #booksky

For those readers, "the fabricated society [...] mirrors their reality" (74) and they "relate to the descriptions of food and customs in the Regency historical romances as they define the criteria against which they critically 'judge' their society and their own selves" (75).

So, I'm having problems with my threading/embedding, but bsky.app/profile/oliv... replied to this post by saying "This is a true and powerful bit of critique" and I was reminded of @javariafarooqui.bsky.social 's book about reading Regency romances

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/...

My book opposes any claims of homogeneity or simple intellectual abilities of the genre fans & explores how fictional representations of the time and space of one era invoke feelings of belonging, nostalgia, & romance in readers of another time and space. #romancelandia #AcademicSky #fanstudies

I know lots of you have strong opinions on this topic, so I hope this will be of interest: "You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."

Please find attached some cool visuals from my recent academic travels. The purpose of this post is (a) posting for the sake of posting, and (b) trying new tools to botch up recorded videos. #academictourism #newzealand #USA #Mexico #AcademicSky

Just saw some 2nd anniversary posts for the #Barbie movie, so I replug my paper on its challenging reception in urban Pakistan: From a toy to a tool: the reception of Barbie and cultural ambiguity in contemporary Pakistan - Javaria Farooqui, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AcademicSky

Too tired to clean up the chaos on the desk, too happy to start reading a romance after submitting a revised chapter on reading the romance! Beverly Barton: Just the Way You Are #romancebooks #amreading #romancelandia

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...

The play of lights on park benches, leaves on the ground, and bright greens... I quite like this photo. Coyoacán, June 25.

"Kamblé goes beyond the predominantly reactive tendencies within the discipline of popular romance studies to offer a neat framework that beautifully shows how romance fiction reflects and shapes cultural attitudes." This really nails the book's significance. Far catchier than the backcover copy!

I have reviewed Jayashree Kamble's wonderful book, "Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation," for JPRS. Thank you, Jayashree, for writing this 🔥 piece, and thanks Hannah for making this review possible. #bookreview #popularromancestudies #romance

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)

Winding up academic tourism in Mexico City [courtesy of the keynote invite by IASPR] with my photo with/of the amazing vibrant books that I can't read! #bookish #AcademicSky #mexicocity #colours

One of the most adorable bookstores I have ever seen: Under the Volcano Books, Mexico City. It is the only bookstore with Anglophone books. The highlight of the visit for me was people shouting "books!!!!" to get to the store! #bookish #mexicocity #AcademicSky

As an academic-tourist with nada level of Spanish, visiting bookstores and bookstalls in Mexico City has been a rich experience. This place is in love with libros! Proliferation of street book vendors, small independent bookstores, & stalls. #bookish #AcademicSky #MexicoCity

Honored to be the keynote speaker at @iaspr.bsky.social in Mexico City. It was an amazing moment in my journey as a popular genre scholar! Feeling national pride in being invited as a keynote speaker by a tremendously prestigious international conference. #Mexico #Pakistan #AcademicSky

A reminder that there is one week to go to submit your abstract for the new edited collection on 'Carmilla' and its legacies edited by myself and Simon Bacon! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

Look, it's not about two scholars who are each other's Reviewer 2, but if you want a rom-com about two bitter academic rivals who end up together written by an academic, then may I point you towards... (I wanted to call it Higher Yearning, but alas, got shot down)

Came across these photos of antique writing paraphernalia while scrolling through my gallery today. It was such fun looking at these quills & ink pots in New Orleans. Sharing now because we deserve reminders of good things like writing and quills in life! #writing #photography

Forever a Jennifer Cruise fan! Her collaborative fiction projects are not at the "Bet Me" level of awesomeness, but this series is still pretty cool. #amreading #readingforpleasure 💙📚

Javaria Farooqui (@javariafarooqui.bsky.social‬) writes about her late blooming as a romance reader and the hardships that come with pursuing a PhD in romance studies. Read all about it in “Broken Slippers and Glass Ceilings: Exploring the Romance of Reading Romance” (2/3). doi.org/10.70138/LNN...

New Call for Articles from myself and Anna Misiak for @maifeminism.bsky.social : Happy 50th Birthday, #Medusa! Celebrating Women’s Writing. maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #womenswriting #CFP #CFA #Cixous #visualculture #feminist

My new article on rock, Romanticism, and Lacan is a love letter to P J Harvey AND a love letter to David Sigler, one of the editors of Romanticism on the Net whose Lacanian literary criticism inspired my own. It was fun to write and I hope you’ll enjoy reading it:

"My happy ending lies in understanding the innermost fears of the women in my family who love me and did not want me to end up as a poor professor wearing broken slippers..." Happy to share my new essay in @jprstudies.bsky.social www.jprstudies.org/2025/05/brok... #AcademicSky #romancelandia

Books, Bestie, and Coffee: Analysing the Psychological Impact of Book Consumerism and Café Culture on Sustainable Friendships in Urban Centres [😅] #books #Coffee #friends

It is only one week (!!) until An Academic Affair comes out in Australia and Aotearoa - and also only one week until the launch! Naarm pals, come join me at Readings Hawthorn on Wednesday June 4 to celebrate.

I went live on Tasmania Evenings today & [if interested] you can listen to me [time stamp 50:30] talking about Regency romances, Jane Austen's Pakistani fans & my book "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan" www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... via ABCaustralia

Sunday travels with Dagupta' "Debating Darcy," which has Samiya Arif's cover art, featuring Pakistani model Trinette Lucas & TV romcom actor Khushal Khan [samyaarif.com/Debating-Darcy…]. All this feels like Austen’s South Asian fandom 🫶 #janeausten #romancelandia 💙📚

The Story Shop Book Store in DHA has this wonderful collection of books [old books in perfect condition & latest titles] and browsing around is 🔥. Heaps of romance genre fiction, too❤️ I love my research field trips!!! #AcademicSky #books #romance #research 💙📚

Call for Papers on Romantasy. At this point the editors are looking for chapters on specific topics. The closing date for abstracts is 30 June. I've posted the details at Teach Me Tonight:

Lake Superior sunset.

Beckham's BookShop, New Orleans. Old bookshops have a charm of their own, and this one has such old world feels. It was like stepping into a world of secrets, old tales, bibliosmia, and magic! More bookshop photos over at insta! #travel #photography #oldbookshops 💙📚

Me: Where does one start working on the heaps of unfinished drafts on this miraculously free half day? Also me: posting irrelevant media from the last conference trip!!! #AcademicChatter #writing #procrastinating #travelphotography

I have been able to talk about my book,"Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency," in #Lahore,#Tauranga (NZ), #Sargodha,& #NewOrleans (USA) & I just felt like sharing some photos 📚💙 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/romance-f... #Romancelandia #academicsky @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

📢 What’s this? Rumours of a new print book from the pen of Blaire Squiscoll…?! 🇫🇷 Set in Paris! 🚪 a Frankfurt Kabuff prequel! 👀 Watch this space for details…

Art makes you pause! Spotted the 'Standing Ovation' sculpture at DFW airport on my way back to Pakistan after the popular culture conference last month. So many life-sized human hands forever frozen in applause— interesting sight! #travelphotography #art

Brief self-aggrandising promo moment - if you're in Australia and want to vote in something a bit more low stakes this week, voting for the 2025 Better Reading Top 100 is open until Sunday. And if you wanted to vote for one of my books, I, like, wouldn't be mad about it.

Romance scholars! Here's a CFP about Laura Kinsale that you might want to check out: www.alexandravasti.com/kinsale-book...

#CFP #Bonkbusters and Soap Operas: Representing #Sex, #Glamour, and #Melodrama on Screen 21st June 2025 @ #Falmouth University Sponsored by the British Association of Film and Television Studies #BAFTSS

Read half this book in a New Zealand library last year, got hooked, had US cousins find it for me in Dallas. Now finishing it in Lahore. Books, reading practices, & readers have such fun histories! #books #romancelandia 💙📚

New Call for Articles from myself and Anna Misiak for @maifeminism.bsky.social : Happy 50th Birthday, #Medusa! Celebrating Women’s Writing. maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #womenswriting #CFP #CFA #Cixous #visualculture #feminist

The best moments at @pcaaca.bsky.social included: 1. Signing my book for enthusiastic readers, and 2. Stumbling upon readers showing interest in my book on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social display table. #readers #happiness

The Romance Area presentations at #pcaaca25 are just so lit. I can't ever not be overwhelmed by the generous sharing of knowledge by popular romance scholars. #romancelandia and scholarly #romancelandia are simply 🔥 #research #romance #happilyeverafter

Got the Michael and Madonna Marsden Grant to present my research "Power, Madness, and Despair: Post #MeToo Analysis of Love Stories on Pakistani Television" at Popular Culture Association conference in New Orleans. Grateful to @pcaaca.bsky.social for this rich experience. #AcademicSky #romancelandia

Thrilled to meet the amazing @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social team—Katie Gallof & Stephanie Grace-Petinos on day one of #pcaaca25! Also met Eric Selinger of JPPRS who introduced me to my PhD supervisor. Katie shared exciting news: my book "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan" is getting interest!

Just published my paper "Stolen Glances, Dances, and Female Empowerment: Evolving Representations of Romance in Pakistani Cinema" in a national journal. The argument may not be as fully developed as I'd like, but it's out of my head and into the world! #romance #AcademicSky ipjll.com/ipjll/index....