I've done a fun little month's round up for April. Our theme was 'Folklore and Fear' so if that's your jam... give it a look! romancingthegothic.com/2026/05/07/f...

Very excited to share the definition of trope in romance fiction, synthesised beautifully and significantly by @heatherschell.bsky.social I was fortunate to be part of this amazing discussion during the Popular Culture Association’s annual conference [2025] Link: www.jprstudies.org/2026/03/defi...

"Dark Tales of Wonder" is a collection of Dark Fantasy short stories with a splash of horror and dash of Whimsy. Inspired by True stories shared by friends and family steeped in Pakistani Folklore and Superstition. Grab your copy: Links are in Bio! #Horrorsky #writingcommunity

Save the date: RomanceClass is doing another KILIG FOR FREE day (several days really) on 4/4! Romance novellas, short stories, and short story collections, in English, by Filipino authors will be available free at this link: romanceclassbooks.com/free

From the sublime to the… cute? I (p)review the new TV show The Other Bennet Sister - which I’m really enjoying!

The CFP for the always fantastic @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social annual conference is now live Deadline: 8 May 2026 #FanStudies docs.google.com/document/u/0...

So good to come across your own book while spring-cleaning the books you own. "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan"examines Anglophone romance reading community in Pakistan & highlights the readers' perspective and preferences. #Romancelandia #Fandom #AcademicSky @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

Hi all! For an essay collection on #toystudies toyetic tv (TV shows based on toys like She-Ra), I could use an essay or two on modern videos (e.g. #Labubu and #PopMart) or other interesting pitches. email [email protected] Thanks! #academicsky #booksky #cfp

Re-reading Crusie is nicest thing this procrastinating academic has done in what seems like a very long time. Loving everything about my slow morning so far! #reading #jennifercrusie #romancelandia #booksky

I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up! Come and join us! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

New Year, New-ish Call for Papers Calling all #Bronte scholars, #poetry specialists, #Romantic & #Victorian -ists: please consider submitting to our Brontës and Poetry special issue of Brontë Studies - #creative approaches encouraged 🖤 Abstracts: 1 April Manuscripts: 15 December Please RT

A new publication by Katie Deane, on dark romance, is the first work of romance scholarship of 2026. And it's open access!

🚨 A new Special Issue has been published today! The volume "(Un)defined YA / Series / Romance" features an introduction by Amanda K. Allen (@amandaallenphd.bsky.social) and six research articles. Follow the link and keep reading to discover them: www.jprstudies.org/special-issu... #RomanceResearch

Just a reminder that Romancing the Gothic's conference this year is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe's publications! The conference focuses on women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror! Come join us! romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

Extremely chuffed to see this review of my book. All thanks to Qurrat-ul-Ain Liaqat, @jprstudies.bsky.social and @hannahoorenman.bsky.social ❤️ #bookreview #AcademicSky #booksky #romancelandia #romance #fanstudies #fandom

One of the very few pieces I managed to publish this year is my entry on "Ethnonationalism and Gender" in 'The Sage International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender.' Have a look if you have institutional access.I'm too poor to get it even with the contributor discount😍 #AcademicSky

📣 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

Weekend vibes with books [that I have been carrying around as emotional support and not finding time to read] and plants. Books in the post: Talia Hibbert's "Get a Life Chloe Brown" and Ayesha Muzaffer's "The Haunting of Dr Rahimuddin Shamsi." #Reading #Romance #horror #plants #booksky

📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly @sas-news.bsky.social

New #CFP International #WomensWriting online conference

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