Registration for the sixth international IASPR conference in Salt Lake City is now open! Registration is available for three days or single days, and there are special rates for students and independent scholars. The conference will take place from June … Continue reading →
IASPR is pleased to announce that we will hold our sixth international conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA in June of 2016. The Call for Papers is now available for individual papers, full panels, roundtables, interviews, or innovative presentations. … Continue reading →
Issue 4.2 of the peer-reviewed Journal of Popular Romance Studies is available free on-line. It features a special issue on The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia, guest edited by Hsu-Ming Teo, with pieces on material culture, mass-market fiction … Continue reading →
The Journal of Popular Romance Studies, an international peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarship on representations of love in popular culture, is seeking a new Managing Editor. Duties include: managing the journal’s main email account coordinating the submission, review and publication … Continue reading →
We are excited to announce that IASPR has published its schedule for the upcoming conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, June 19-21, 2014. Please see the schedule page for more details!
Continue reading →There have been a few exciting updates for our 2014 conference in Thessaloniki, Greece. We’re pleased to announce the distinguished members of our Scientific/Peer Review Committee: Eric Selinger Lisa Fletcher John Storey Celestino Deleyto Lynne Pearce William Gleason Our keynote … Continue reading →
An August 12, 2013 piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education recently drew attention to IASPR and JPRS, and to the rich web of academic connections between us and other emerging venues for the study of love in global media. The article primarily focused … Continue reading →
In the spring of 2009, Sarah S. G. Frantz founded the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance and its companion journal, the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. After four remarkable years, marked by four international conferences, six issues … Continue reading →
The Fifth International Conference on Popular Romance Studies will focus on the romantic love and its representations in popular media, now and in the past, from anywhere in the world. It will be held at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, … Continue reading →
The Journal of Popular Romance Studies publishes peer-reviewed scholarship on romantic love in global popular culture, now or in the past, from any disciplinary perspective. Read the official Submissions page for more information on how to submit and special issue … Continue reading →
