PCA/ACA
Schedule by area: Romance
Man Up: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Sex Appeal
Maria Ramos-Garcia| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tackling Toxic Masculinty Through Romance and the Supernatural | Cory Wren Murphy | Paper | |
| Mass Market Pornography: Romance Novels for Men are Different | Jonathan Allan | Paper | |
| Writing the (gendered) romance? Slash genres and concepts of gender, sexuality and family | Julia Elena Goldmann | Paper |
How to Talk About Media (when you’re not quite sure how): A Workshop
Round table
Katherine E. Morrissey
Category Is: Studies of Genre and Subgenre
Mallory Diane Jagodzinski| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The paratextuality of category romance: the branding of short shelf life fiction | Lisa Fletcher Jodi McAlister | Paper | |
| New Adult Fiction: A feminist Reading of a New Genre | Josefine Smith | Paper | |
| Black-Asian Swirl – Resisting Stereotypes and Promoting Fetish in American BWAM Romance Fiction | Layla Abdullah-Poulos | Paper | |
| The RITA Retrospective Project | Diane K Peterson | Paper |
Beyond the Book: Romances in Other Spaces
Jodi McAlister| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Where are all the Fun Books: Holdings of Popular Romance and Science Fiction Novels in Academic Libraries | Sarah Sheehan | Paper | |
| The Politics of the Politics of the Love Song | Raymond Andrew Patton | Paper | |
| Romance Novels & The Female Gaze: The Evolution of the Romance Genre’s Book Covers | Angela Maria Hart | Paper | |
| “A recipe for sugary-sweet erotica:” Consumption in Alexa Riley’s Novellas | Evvie Valiou | Paper |
The Historical Romance: A Study of Sub-Genre
Eric Murphy Selinger| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| “Doubt Creeps In”: Sarah MacLean and the Inverted Orpheus of One Good Earl Deserves a Lover. | Jessica Chadbourne | Paper | |
| Her History, Her Romance: Evangeline Parsons Yazzie’s Naabeeho/Diné historical romance series | Johanna Hoorenman | Paper | |
| Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime: Revenge in Sarah MacLean’s Rule of Scoundrels Series | Veera Mäkelä | Paper |
“I’m Not a Side chick – I’m the Other Girlfriend/Wife”: Shifting Scripts and Depictions on Non-Monogamous Relationships and Polyamorous Relationships in Popular Culture”
Round table
Natasha Howard
Curry, Adria Goldman, Andre Nicholson
Love Makes the World Go ‘Round: Romance, Nation, and Globe
Jessica Matthews| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| An Articulation of Modern Indian Values in the Romance of Sandhya Sridhar | Kristen Rudisill | Paper | |
| The impact of Anglo-Chamorro romance on Guam’s neocolonial status, or the power of the intimate in discussions of the global | Carolina Fernández-Rodríguez | Paper | |
| Rainbow nation in love. South African popular romance in Afrikaans and the Politics of Representation | Martina Vitackova | Paper | |
| Mr Worldwide: How global is your alpha? | Amy Burge | Paper |
Hot Topics and Hashtags in Romancelandia: #metoo, neurodiversity, #cockygate, and the “emotionally satisfying” ending
Sarah Ficke| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Love in the Time of the #MeToo movement Teaching Paranormal Romance in 2018 | Maria Ramos-Garcia | Paper | |
| Happy for Whom? The Contingent Happy Ending in Romance Fiction | Jessica Matthews | Paper | |
| The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange World” of Heroines on the Autism Spectrum in Romance Fiction | Wendy Wagner | Paper | |
| “Cockygate”: Trademark Bullying, Romance Novels and Intellectual Property | Devon Fitzgerald Ralston | Paper |
Romance area dinner
Dinner
Jodi McAlister, Heather Schell
What’s Race Got to Do with It?: Negotiating and Contesting Race in the Romance
Erin Young| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| “Welfare Reform, Romance, and a Black Love Ethic for the 1990’s” | Julie Moody-Freeman | Paper | |
| (Re)imagined Romance: intersections of cultural memory, media representation and the perpetuation of repressive ideologies | Tania de Sostoa-McCue | Paper | |
| Korean Television Dramas and Transnational Romantic Desires: A Case Study of Intimate Relationships between Korean men and International Fan Tourists to Korea | Min Joo Lee | Paper | |
| “Love is (Color) Blind: Citizenship and Belonging in 21st Century Historical Romance Fiction” | Mallory Diane Jagodzinski | Paper |