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Princeton Romance Conference

The website for “Love as the Practice of Freedom? Romance Fiction and American Culture” is finally live!

This conference is on April 23-24, at Princeton University, and FREE! to the public.

There are some pretty illustrious names presenting at the conference. Rather than repeat them all here (Eloisa James, Jenny Crusie, Beverly Jenkins, SB Sarah, Michelle Buonfiglio), go to Teach Me Tonight for the link-filled goodness of the presenter line-up. Or go poke around the conference website itself!

So, if you’re in the vicinity, we’d love to see you there in just about a month from now!

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Joan/SarahFJoan/SarahF is a literary critic, a college professor, and an avid reader of romance--and is thrilled that these are no longer mutually exclusive. Her official specialization is Romantic-era British women novelists, especially Jane Austen, but she has recently joined the exciting re-visioning of academic criticism of popular romance fiction. Sarah is a contributor to the academic blog about romance, Teach Me Tonight, the winner of the 2008-2009 RWA Academic Research Grant, and in the process of founding the International Association of the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) and the Journal of Popular Romance Studies (JPRS). Currently, Sarah pretty much only reads BDSM romance, gay male romance, Suzanne Brockmann, J.R. Ward, and Kresley Cole, although she hopes to be able to beat her TBR pile into submission when she has time to think. Sarah teaches at Fayetteville State University, NC. Email this author | All posts by Joan/SarahF

9 comments to “Princeton Romance Conference”

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    Princeton was definitely not that cool when I applied, I’m sure of it! What an interesting conference. Wish I could be there!

    Currently, Sarah pretty much only reads BDSM romance, gay male romance, Suzanne Brockmann, J.R. Ward, and Kresley Cole,

    Dude. We should totally share reading lists.

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    Any BDSM or gay male recs always welcome! ;)

    Ohio’s not that far away! Come on down!

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  4. 4

    w00t that’s right across from where i work that week!!

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    See you there, Lexie C.!

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    Princeton isn’t too terribly far from me, and I’m always complaining that these romance conferences are too far away.

    But who to go with?

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    Well drat it. This is smack in the middle of RT and I gotta work that. I’d have loved to (briefly) go back to my grad student days.

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    Treva, I know, and I’m so sorry! That’s the one drawback about the conference. We lost a speaker we’d invited because she was at RT. Next time, I promise–no conflict!

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    LOL. I was desperate to go to Princeton U when I saw a brochure of it in 10th grade. Until I realized that Princeton didn’t like dorks. Man if I knew Princeton was this awesome I’d have de-dorked myself back then.

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