Shelf Love: romance novel discourse
A podcast & community discussing romance novels, and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Andrea Martucci (she/her)
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Too Many Romance Scholarship Projects (opens the original)
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Last week, I went up to Portland, Maine with my friend, romance scholar Jayashree Kamblé for a romance scholarship writing retreat. My goal was to write up the paper version of research I presented 5 years ago at the Pop Culture Association Conference about the romance reader stereotype.The dataset was complete. The analysis and a thorough literature review were done. Heck, I had a whole paper written already, organized into a coherent narrative with citations basically organized and ready to go
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