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We are excited to release a preview of our forthcoming Romancing Africa Special Issue, with a fascinating article by Enet Mundembe and F. Fiona Moolla on the centrality of motherhood in Nigerian popular romance 📢 #PopularRomance #Africa #NigerianRomance www.jprstudies.org/2026/08/marr...

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Marriage and Procreation: Continuities and Transformations in the Ankara Novellas A Tailor-Made Romance and Love Me Unconditionally Against the Backdrop of Flora Nwapa’s Efuru – Journal of Popular Rom...

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New Issue Alert: Very pleased to share the latest issue of JPRS!📢 With articles on trauma in popular romance by Alicia Leigh, cuteness in Thai boys-love novels by Bancha Rattanamathuwong, notes on defining the 'trope' in romance fiction, and many others🎉 www.jprstudies.org/issue-15-1/

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Issue 15.1 | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

Editor’s Note by Amy Burge General Articles Notes and Queries Book Reviews

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 23/03/2026

Come to South Korea with us with some new ideas about world literature, translation of literature, and other comparative work! #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies

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Katarzyna Anna Kapitan @kakapitan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

#jobklaxon PhD Fellowships available at @psl-univ.bsky.social! Come & work w/us in CultureLab (w/ @jbcamps.bsky.social @oliviermorin.bsky.social et al not bsky). Deadline 31/05 Starting 01/10 Duration 3 yrs (fixed-term employment with benefits) Salary: sad. www.culturelab.psl.eu/en/news-cult...

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2026 CultureLab PhD Grant Call - Grands Programmes de Recherche-Culture Lab

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CfP 🚨 Are you interested in #RomanceResearch and Sports? JPRS is calling for papers for its special issue on Sport Romance! 📆 300-word abstracts to be submitted by 31st May 2026 to Atlanta Tsiaoukkas (at839@cam.ac.uk). 🔗 Find all the information on our website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...

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Topics of interest may include but are not limited to:

Sports in romance narratives in a variety of media, including but not limited to: genre fiction, memoir, screen media, music, or in the teaching of these media.
The significance of self-publishing in contemporary sport romance
The relationship between sport fan communities, romance fan communities and sport romance fiction
‘BookTok’ and the impact of sport romance fan behaviour on athletes
Precursors to contemporary sport romance such as Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles and Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Chicago Stars
Portrayals of gender difference and subversion in sport romance
Class, wealth and celebrity in sport romance
Queer themes and homophobia within sport culture as explored in sport romance
Young Adult sport romance and the pedagogical interventions endeavoured by sport romance in young people’s physical activity

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smpouli.bsky.social @smpouli.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

📢COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP -- DEADLINE EXTENSION! You now have until 24th February 2026 (AoE) to submit a long paper or an abstract for a poster or a lightning talk on any topic related to the computational study of cultural artefacts. 👉 c2s.sciencesconf.org 📍Paris, 18-19 May 2026

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It was an absolute privilege to work with these wonderful scholars. I hope that people enjoy this special issue on YA and series and romance!

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smpouli.bsky.social @smpouli.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

📢 CfP now open for the Computational Cultural Science Workshop (Paris, 18-19 May 2026) until 16 February. Topics of interest: *️⃣AI and cultural datasets *️⃣Theory-driven humanities research *️⃣Document-based modelling of historical and social processes *️⃣Cultural analytics 👉 c2s.sciencesconf.org

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📣 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

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Special Issue Call for Papers | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

JPRS publishes special issues on a range of topics relating to the study of romantic love and its representations. These issues contain at least 3 articles on their shared topic, as well as an introdu...

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