Jayashree Kamblé is Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College and President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. She is a co-editor of the Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance (2021). Her first monograph was Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology (2014). She is developing a history of BIPOC romance novels with the help of a Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies fellowship and a CUNY Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI) research grant. Follow her on Twitter @prof_romance.
Tara Jean Hickman is Educational Associate at LaGuardia and Wagner Archives and Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences at LaGuardia Community College.
In this episode, Jayashree and Tara discuss Jayashree’s latest book, Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine’s Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation (Indiana University Press, 2023). In so doing, they bring up themes of gender, race, class, love, sex and sexual orientation, and the concept of happily after. They talk about how the romance genre effectively tracks historical, sociological, cultural and political changes over time and about the pedagogical value of these stories, characters, and plots.
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Related:
- “Dr. Jayashree Kamblé Brings Her Love Of Romance Literature And Film To LaGuardia Students,” News from LaGuardia Community College (CUNY), Feb. 14, 2023
- “Romance Readers Swoon for Brooklyn’s Newest Bookstore,” New York Times, Aug. 12, 2023
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