Shelf Love Guest Open Call: Researching Popular Romance Fiction

May 26, 2023

Throw your hat in the ring to share your area of expertise with Shelf Love listeners.

Open call for guests who would like to share their research on popular romance fiction, or on a related topic that would be of interest to romance novel readers and scholars.

AREAS OF INTEREST:

• Social science explorations of romance readers, or cross-genre reading (including romance)
• Examinations of romance novels across cultures (especially outside the US)
• How romance novels have changed over time
• Cross-disciplinary approaches
• Business of romance novels: emerging business models, formats, and reader trends

FORMAT:

Typical recording is 60-75 minutes long; 50-60-minute final edited episode.

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This call is open to scholars and nerds of all kinds - no formal qualifications required. But, please note this is not a call for authors of fiction to discuss their own work.

I encourage you to listen to a few episodes of Shelf Love if you haven't already. Here are a few episodes that were a result of this open call:

• Queer Romance: A History with Lucy Hargrave
• The Hunger Games & Extraordinary Girl Romance Narratives

Here are a few episodes that were not a result of the open call but are good examples of what this open call is looking for:

• Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney on her Romance Collection
• Julie Moody Freeman on Teaching Black Romance in the Classroom with Cultural Studies Framework
• Eric Selinger on Major Waves of Romance Scholarship
• Diana Filar on White American Immigrants, Assimilation, Romance Adaptations
• Only Tingles Before Marriage: Junior Novels in Post-War America with Dr. Amanda K. Allen
• What Books Do, Empirically Speaking with Dr. Andrew Piper
• Time Travel Romance: A Fantasy Escape to a Glorious Space

Shelf Love podcast interviews are conducted remotely via Skype.

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