More geeking out about romance from IASPR

If you’ve been enjoying the tempting tweets from #IASPR, I should point out that the entire conference proceedings will be published in JPRS, the Journal of Popular Romance Studies, known familiarly as “Jeepers.”

Also, membership in IASPR is a mere $25 per year, so if you really want to be one of Ravenclaws of Romance, click here: http://iaspr.org/membership/

I’ve been thrilled by the intersection of literary criticism, feminist theory, and gender studies that come together at IASPR. I took copious notes on some of the presentations, while others fascinated me too much to be typing during. I offer here a few of the thought-provoking statements in the papers presented, but this falls far short of the full analysis presented by each.

The very first presentation was one of my favorites of the entire conference, and related very directly to my own work and career. Catherine Roach (U. of Alabama) presented a paper entitled “‘I Love You,’ He Said: The Money Shot in Romance Fiction as Feminist Porn.”

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