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I was a guest on The Categorically Romance Podcast to discuss my category romance collecting addiction, reading some books from Kiss a short-lived Harlequin line from the early 20 teens, and how not being allowed to read romance as a teen actually made me more obsessed with reading romance. Hope you enjoy this episode and I definitely recommend that you check out the Categorically Romance Podcast if you're not already listening. We read The One that Got Away by Kelly Hunter (Kiss #1) and If You Can't Stand the Heat by Joss Wood. Learn more about The Categorically Romance Podcast: https://linktr.ee/TheCategoricallyRomancePodcast SHELF LOVE: __ __
In this episode, host Andrea Martucci embarks on a journey with Dame Jodie Slaughter to the Covering Romance exhibition. The event showcases romance novel cover art by award-winning artist, John Ennis. Interviews with John Ennis and other attendees, including author Nisha Sharma, romance fan Mary Lynne Nielsen, and Fin, owner of Wolf and Kron books, a genre bookstore. Andrea purchases several pieces of cover art and reflects with Jodie on the cultural significance of fandom and passion for the genre. FELLOW TRAVELER: DAME JODIE SLAUGHTER, INTERNATIONAL FANDOM CRITICIZER Website https://www.jodieslaughter.com/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/JodieSlaughter | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jodie_slaughter/ SHELF LOVE: __ __
An exploration of prison planet romances with Megan Erickson. We discuss Guardian by Emmy Chandler and how it explores issues of consent, agency, and morality through an extreme version of the forced proximity trope. Are these brutal dystopians actually hopeful explorations of humanity and love? SHELF LOVE: __ __
ROMANCELANDIA HOLIDAY FAIRIES 2023! Romancelandia Holiday Fairies is a mutual aid effort for the romance novel reader community to support anyone in the community who could use a little material help with purchasing gifts for themselves, or loved ones this holiday season. Learn more: bit.ly/holidayfairies http://bit.ly/holidayfairies shelflovepodcast.com/holiday-fairies http://shelflovepodcast.com/holiday-fairies SHELF LOVE: __ __
Is shame productive? This question guides part 2 of a Whoa!mance/Shelf Love convo about A Lady of the West by Linda Howard as we discuss the paradox of enjoying highly problematic books. We interrogate our feelings of shame, enjoyment, and the importance of critically dissecting the pleasures derived from reading, no matter how uncomfortable it may feel. Look at your society, look at your life! Along with me and Whoa!mance, in this crossover episode. SHELF LOVE: __ __ GUESTS: WHOA!MANCE (MORGAN AND ISABEAU) Twitter https://twitter.com/mance_whoa | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whoamance/ | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Whoamancepod | Website https://www.whoamancepodcast.com/ | Listen on any podcast app! Listen to part 1 of this episode: episode 150 Shelf Love https://shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/season-2/episode-150/a-lady-of-the-west-the-rules-for-good-women Morgan & Isabeau joined me in episode 076 to discuss Strange Love by Ann Aguirre https://shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/season-2/episode-76/076-generous-curiosity-strange-love-by-ann-aguirre-with-whoamance/ and Episode 089 to Problematize Romance https://shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/season-2/episode-89/089-problematizing-romance-you-cant-consume-your-way-out-of-oppression and 108 She-Devil (1989): Who's Entitled To Be Selfish in Love & Life? (Whoa!mance spectacular) https://shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/season-2/episode-108/she-devil-1989-whos-entitled-to-be-selfish-in-love-life-whoamance-spectacular
I humbly asked Morgan and Isabeau to help me understand why A Lady of the West by Linda Howard had a chokehold on my young romance-reading imagination, and they delivered. We discuss how this book has rules for good (white) women, and explores Manifest Destiny, settler colonialism, sexuality, violence, violent sexuality, and being a desirable (white) woman. Button up your white high-necked blouse and gallop on a virile stallion into the wild west with Whoa!mance, in this crossover episode. SHELF LOVE: __ __ GUESTS: WHOA!MANCE (MORGAN AND ISABEAU) Twitter https://twitter.com/mance_whoa | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whoamance/ | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Whoamancepod | Website https://www.whoamancepodcast.com/ | Listen on any podcast app! __ __ and __ __ and __ __
The difference between erotic romance and romance is all about feelings, in particular, you feel them. Shelf Love’s Kink Correspondent, Dame Jodie Slaughter, joins the podcast to discuss A Gentleman in the Streets by Alisha Rai. Only enter if you consensually dare. SHELF LOVE: __ __ GUEST: DAME JODIE SLAUGHTER, SHELF LOVE’S KINK CORRESPONDENT Website https://www.jodieslaughter.com/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/JodieSlaughter | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jodie_slaughter/
Bisexuality in romance with writer and reviewer Ellie Mae MacGregor (@bisexual_booknerd). When it comes to romance, a genre that explores romantic and sexual desires, what does “good” bisexual representation look like? How can books with or without bisexual representation create worlds that feel safe for bisexual readers? SHELF LOVE: __ __ GUEST: ELLIE MAE MACGREGOR Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bisexual_booknerd/ @bisexual_booknerd
I own 91 Candlelight Ecstasy Romances, so it was high time I read one... then I read another 13 for good measure. In December, 1980, Vivian Stephens launched a new line of contemporary category romance at Dell called Candlelight Ecstasy. The line pushed the envelope when it came to sex and sensuality on the page. But how sexy are they and how do these books hold up in 2023? SHELF LOVE: __ __
Mistress of Mellyn by Virginia Holt is often hailed as responsible for kicking off a boom of modern gothics in the mid-20th century. In this crossover with Reformed Rakes, we ask: is this a gothic first and a romance second? Is our plucky main character in love with the man of the house, or just the house? How does Mistress explore transgression of boundaries, gender, eight-year-olds, and heroines “ahead of their time”? SHELF LOVE: __ __ Discussed: The Mistress of Mellyn (1960) by Virginia Holt GUEST: REFORMED RAKES Website https://reformedrakes.com/ | Emma https://restorativeromance.substack.com/ | Beth https://www.tiktok.com/@bethhaymondreads | Chels https://theloosecravat.substack.com/
What makes a heroine in romance, a genre invested in exploring how can women be happy in culture? Is the genre a place where heroines create integrated identities that reject binaries of what society tells them to be? Dr. Jayashree Kamble discusses her latest book on romance scholarship, Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation. Shelf Love listeners can use “UShelfLove” to get 35% off the book at Indiana University Press, from now until November 2, 2023. SHELF LOVE: __ __ GUEST: DR. JAYASHREE KAMBLE CREATING IDENTITY: THE POPULAR ROMANCE HEROINE'S JOURNEY TO SELFHOOD AND SELF-PRESENTATION https://iupress.org/9780253065704/creating-identity/ SHELF LOVE DISCOUNT CODE: USE “USHELFLOVE” FOR 35% BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 15, 2023 AND NOVEMBER 2, 2023. Jayashree on Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/members/kamble/ JAYASHREE’S UPCOMING NEW YORK CITY BOOK LAUNCH EVENTS: __ __ Learn more about the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance at IASPR.org http://IASPR.org and the open access journal where you can find tons of romance scholarship: JPRStudies.org http://JPRStudies.org
Four romance reading friends embark on a romance history reading project, based on a BookRiot list, and in this episode, two of them — Leigh Kramer and Hannah Hearts romance — have Flames on the Sides of their Face when talking about the Flame and The Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. To keep things interesting, we talk less about the book itself and more about questions of reader reception and the relationship between the 1972 text and the romance texts that followed. Have we come a long way, baby, or are we still wallowing in the same whirlpool of sludgey emotions? -- SHELF LOVE: __ __ DISCUSSED: The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss The BookRiot list that inspired the project: https://bookriot.com/most-influential-romance-novels/ GUESTS: LEIGH KRAMER Website https://www.leighkramer.com/ | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/leighkramer/ HANNAH HEARTS ROMANCE Instagram http://www.instagram.com/hannahheartsromance | Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/99896741-hannah-hearts-romance
What happens when 35 romance scholars walk into a bar, after hours at the IASPR 2023 Romance Revitalised conference? They share their favorite romance scholarship, and why! SHELF LOVE: __ __ Thanks to all of the contributors to this episode! Full list of romance scholarship mentioned on Substack: https://shelflovepodcast.substack.com/ Romance Reader Stereotype research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQzi8fBB0R8
The fabulous foursome (Morgan & Isabeau from Whoa!mance, Dame Jodie Slaughter, Andrea Martucci from Shelf Love) get meta textual as we reflect on our meta podcasting project on Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas. What’s this episode about? Take a guess from this collection of possible episode titles: __ __ Be sure to listen to episode 140 and 141 before diving into the meta-ness and meta-mess of this text. SHELF LOVE: __ __ GUEST: DAME JODIE SLAUGHTER Website https://www.jodieslaughter.com/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/JodieSlaughter | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jodie_slaughter/ GUESTS: WHOA!MANCE (MORGAN AND ISABEAU) Twitter https://twitter.com/mance_whoa | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whoamance/ | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Whoamancepod | Website https://www.whoamancepodcast.com/ | Listen on any podcast app! Morgan & Isabeau joined me in episode 076 to discuss Strange Love by Ann Aguirre https://shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/season-2/episode-76/076-generous-curiosity-strange-love-by-ann-aguirre-with-whoamance/ and Episode 089 to Problematize Romance https://shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/season-2/episode-89/089-problematizing-romance-you-cant-consume-your-way-out-of-oppression and 108 She-Devil (1989): Who's Entitled To Be Selfish in Love & Life? (Whoa!mance spectacular) https://shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/season-2/episode-108/she-devil-1989-whos-entitled-to-be-selfish-in-love-life-whoamance-spectacular
This week, yr grls at long last encounter Derek Craven in "DREAMING OF YOU" by Miss Massachu herself LISA KLEYPAS. It is time for Morgan and Isabeau from Whoa!mance to wade into this collaboration with Shelf Love. You probably already know this - but Sarah is a regency country mouse who is secretly a best-selling novelist. Facing the dreaded sophomore slump, she seeks out a real Gambling Hell to research her next novel and instead finds Derek Craven. Derek's a gutter baby cum Cockney made good by establishing the most luxurious gambling den in London. But, it turns out, his personal tastes skew a bit more bucolic if you catch our drift (they fall in love!). What makes a character captivating and why doesn't Derek Craven have any of it? Is the sentimental version of the Culture Wars any more forgivable? It's 10 p.m. - is your child a Perry? Take our "lump of ice" and tune in as we give this "weep and wail" its "early hours". -- GUESTS: WHOA!MANCE (MORGAN AND ISABEAU) Twitter https://twitter.com/mance_whoa | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whoamance/ | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Whoamancepod | Website https://www.whoamancepodcast.com/ | Listen on any podcast app! Morgan & Isabeau joined me in episode 076 to discuss Strange Love by Ann Aguirre https://shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/season-2/episode-76/076-generous-curiosity-strange-love-by-ann-aguirre-with-whoamance/ and Episode 089 to Problematize Romance https://shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/season-2/episode-89/089-problematizing-romance-you-cant-consume-your-way-out-of-oppression and 108 She-Devil (1989): Who's Entitled To Be Selfish in Love & Life? (Whoa!mance spectacular) https://shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/season-2/episode-108/she-devil-1989-whos-entitled-to-be-selfish-in-love-life-whoamance-spectacular SHELF LOVE: __ __ Discussed: Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas
Let’s talk about Joyce Ashby from Lisa Kleypas's novel . We delve into the dichotomous portrayal of Joyce as an irredeemable villainess alongside her foil, the redeemable “hero” Derek Craven. We explore the parallel themes of violence, possessiveness, and animalistic sexuality resulting in problematically differing fates and treatment by the text. Belched from the underworld, Defender of Bisexual Villainesses Dame Jodie Slaughter joins Shelf Love in this special cross-over project with Whoa!mance - watch for the next episode, in which Morgan and Isabeau share their conversation about . SHELF LOVE: __ __ Discussed: Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas GUEST: DAME JODIE SLAUGHTER, SHELF LOVE’S EXPERT ON BISEXUAL VILLAINESSES Website https://www.jodieslaughter.com/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/JodieSlaughter | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jodie_slaughter/
Amanda Cinelli joins me to discuss representation of autistic characters in romance novels. Amanda shares how reading Helen Hoang’s "The Kiss Quotient" played a big part in her realizing that she was autistic, and talks about some other romances with autism representation that she loved. We also discuss why representing autistic love is important to Amanda as an author and her writing journey pre and post diagnosis. - SHELF LOVE: __ __ Discussed: __ __ GUEST: AMANDA CINELLI __ __
"Somebody’s Trying To Kill Me and I think it’s my husband" by Joanna Russ is a brilliant bit of 50 year old scholarship about modern gothics, but I say it applies just as well to romance novels of today. In part one, I explore the theme of passive protagonists in adventure stories. Part 2, the personal is the problematic. In all parts: unpacking heteropatriarchy. Discussed: Adventure Stories with Passive Protagonists: https://shelflovepodcast.substack.com/p/adventure-stories-with-passive-protagonists The Personal is Problematic: https://shelflovepodcast.substack.com/p/the-personal-is-problematic SHELF LOVE: __ __
Part 2 of the conversation about North and South with Helena Greer. AI generated these action items from the transcript of this episode. AI responses can be inaccurate or misleading. __ __ This is part 2 of the conversation about North and South. Check out episode 136 for part 1. SHELF LOVE: __ __ DISCUSSED: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and North and South the 2004 BBC adaptation starring Richard Armitage and Daniela Denby-Ashe SAVE the Cat: https://savethecat.com/ GUEST: HELENA GREER Website http://www.helenagreer.com | Twitter https://www.notion.so/Look-Back-at-Me-North-and-South-with-Helena-Greer-7506b7b93a4e4eaba18ea4fe28b97dea | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/blumagaincurios/ | Storyloom Choose Your Own Adventure https://storyloom.com/stories/blumagaincurios-the-sance-scam?id=f2c31b85-6e7f-6471-0a07-58f34264a88b Helena Greer is a long time librarian and romance reader, and recent romance novelist. She has a degree in mythography and is interested in deconstructing the social context around the decisions storytellers make about how to frame --or reframe-- their stories.
Trains! Fruit! Allusions to Hell abound! Victorian industrialist city mortality rates! Writer, sex educator, and librarian Helena Greer is here to discuss North and South. Did the 2004 BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1854 serialized novel make the heroine more likable and everyone else less nuanced? This conversation is serialized just like the original text. We compare and contrast the romantic moments in the book and adaptation, highlighting how the adaptation focuses more on negative emotions and drama, while the book emphasizes character growth and acts of romantic love. SHELF LOVE: __ __ Thanks to the contributors to this episode: DISCUSSED: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and North and South the 2004 BBC adaptation starring Richard Armitage and Daniela Denby-Ashe GUEST: HELENA GREER Website http://www.helenagreer.com | Twitter https://www.notion.so/Look-Back-at-Me-North-and-South-with-Helena-Greer-7506b7b93a4e4eaba18ea4fe28b97dea | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/blumagaincurios/ Helena Greer is a long time librarian and romance reader, and recent romance novelist. She has a degree in mythography and is interested in deconstructing the social context around the decisions storytellers make about how to frame --or reframe-- their stories.
Dame Jodie Slaughter, Feather Fetish Understander, and I recently discussed how The Savage and The Swan speaks the unspoken, what a winged wolf looks like, and whether this book is a metaphor for toxic masculinity and healing generational trauma. This summary below was written by AI using my episode transcript: The Savage and the Swan by Ella Fields is a groundbreaking work of Enemies to Lover literature that combines elements of dark fairytale retellings, a possessive anti-hero, and spicy fae romance. The story follows Opal, a princess in a kingdom at war with its neighboring kingdom, Vordane, ruled by the shape-shifting wolf-with-wings Dade. Opal is forced to marry a human prince to strengthen the alliance between the two kingdoms, but is kidnapped by Dade and must find a way to reconcile her feelings for him despite his shocking act of violence. SHELF LOVE: Join the Conversation on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/ShelfLove __ __ Discussed: The Savage and The Swan by Ella Fields GUEST: DAME JODIE SLAUGHTER, SHELF LOVE’S INTERNATIONAL SMUT HISTORIAN Website https://www.jodieslaughter.com/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/JodieSlaughter | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jodie_slaughter/
Starting the year off with some cozy re-reads, comfort reads, and short reads to combat the wintery weather and get through winter cold season. I share thoughts on all the books I read in January 2023, including Alice Coldbreath’s Victorian Prizefighter series, A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews, His Majesty by Shon, Better Off Wed by Susanna Craig, Hero by Claire Kent, and the Murderbot series by Martha Wells. SHELF LOVE: Join the Conversation on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/ShelfLove __ __ Discussed: __ __
We need to talk about Anais Nin and her erotic short story collection Delta of Venus. Did Anais Nin write "female erotica"? Is there such a thing? Have Things™️ changed much since 1941? Noted smut writer Dame Jodie Slaughter is Shelf Love's international smut history correspondent. She schools us on the long history of smut, French people, Choice Feminism, why she doesn't believe in the female gaze, how her work is contributing to the demise of "our value system," and more! We unpack Anais's assertion that "women are more apt to fuse sex with emotion, with love" via Dr. Jodi McAlister’s book "The Consummate Virgin," and her theories of compulsory (female) demisexuality. SHELF LOVE: Join the Conversation on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/ShelfLove __ __ GUEST: DAME JODIE SLAUGHTER, SHELF LOVE’S INTERNATIONAL SMUT HISTORIAN Website https://www.jodieslaughter.com/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/JodieSlaughter | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jodie_slaughter/ DISCUSSED: __ __
Arranged marriage trope in contemporary Indian American diaspora romance novels with cognitive psychologist and author Sri Savita. SHELF LOVE: Join the Conversation on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/ShelfLove __ __ Discussed: __ __ Shaadi dot com performance by Awaaz Do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzwhcCeJ4lk GUEST: Sri Savita Sri writes romance by night, and by day is a Cognitive Psychologist. Website https://www.sri-savita.com/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/sri_writes_here | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sri_writes_here Forthcoming Short Story: "How to Find Your Footing in France," part of a Wordmakers New Year's Eve holiday anthology. HÔTEL D'AMOUR: A SWEET ROMANCE ANTHOLOGY: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BMXV9JG3/ref=x_gr_bb_kindle?caller=Goodreads&tag=x_gr_bb_kindle-20
A billionaire romance novel that name drops Citizen’s United only comes along every so often. Carter Sherman, Senior reporter for VICE News, joins me to discuss Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre. We talk about power exchange, heterosexual marriage as a transaction, and subverting the single script of the hegemonic BDSM billionaire romance to focus on the fantasy as care & safety as opposed to letting go of control. Romancelandia Holiday Fairies: https://shelflovepodcast.com/blog-posts/romancelandia-holiday-fairies DISCUSSED: PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT BY HEATHER GUERRE OTHER MEDIA MENTIONED: __ __ GUEST: CARTER SHERMAN (SHE/HER/HERS) VICE News https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/carter-sherman | Twitter https://twitter.com/carter_sherman SHELF LOVE: Join the Conversation on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/ShelfLove __ __
Are men in romance novels granted agency & subjectivity, and do readers have the same expectations for male consent as they do for female characters in M/F romance? Lynell from Weekend Reader has some thoughts on mutual consent in romance, especially as she’s binging dark mafia romance with kidnapping plots. What happens when your real life values conflict with your fantasy world values, and how do ideas about happily ever after change as our culture changes? Romancelandia Holiday Fairies 2022: https://shelflovepodcast.com/blog-posts/romancelandia-holiday-fairies bit.ly/romancelandia http://bit.ly/romancelandia SHELF LOVE: Join the Conversation on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/ShelfLove __ __ GUEST: LYNELL FROM WEEKEND READER Website https://weekend-reader.blogspot.com/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/weekendreader_ BOOKS MENTIONED: __ __
Hear Elysabeth Grace & Katrina Jackson in conversation: a recording from Black Romance and Historical Spaces presentation put on by the Center for Black Diaspora at DePaul University on November 5th, 2022. This episode is a co-release with Black Romance Podcast, hosted by Dr. Julie Moody-Freeman. SHELF LOVE: Join the Conversation on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/ShelfLove NEW! $1 Patreon tier “Here for the Discourse” - for those of you bummed by the decline of Twitter __ __ Black Romance Podcast https://blackromancepodcast.libsyn.com/ Center for Black Diaspora https://las.depaul.edu/centers-and-institutes/center-for-black-diaspora/Pages/default.aspx Katrina Jackson https://www.katrinajacksonauthor.com/ Elysabeth Grace https://www.elysabethgrace.com/
Breaking News! Harlequin Associate Editor John Jacobson is here to give the scoop on Harlequin’s newest, currently unnamed line of sexy new contemporary romances. We talk about Harlequin’s intentions, hopes, and dreams for the line, and also talk about the unfulfilled… gaps in the market, especially for younger readers who want to imagine their own unique, personalized, non-normative happily ever afters. SHELF LOVE: Join the Conversation on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/ShelfLove __ __ GUEST: JOHN JACOBSON Twitter https://twitter.com/Femme_Trash Harlequin.submittable.com http://harlequin.submittable.com/ writeforharlequin.com https://www.writeforharlequin.com/
Classic fairy tales Cinderella & Beauty and the Beast may have gotten their Disney-fication, but there are many ways to slide your feet into these glass (or are they fur?) slippers, and romance novels love to play with these tropes. Writer Renee Dahlia and podcaster Philippa Borland join the podcast to discuss and fairytale retellings, reversions, and subversions in romance novels. - SHELF LOVE: Join the Conversation on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/ShelfLove __ __ DISCUSSED: __ __ GUESTS: RENEE DAHLIA Website http://www.reneedahlia.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/dekabat | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/reneedahlia_author/ | Books http://www.reneedahlia.com/books/ PHILIPPA BORLAND Listen to Pod Culture Oz https://podcultureoz.com/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/podculture_oz | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/podcultureoz/ | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/podcultureoz
What is beastliness? Little Red Riding Hood stories used to be tales of warning for young women to manage their sexuality in the face of the dangerous beasts of court, who were smooth on the outside, but hairy on the inside. In the 21st century, paranormal teen romances use enchantment to transform the beasts into objects of desire. Dr. Nicola Welsh-Burke, a scholar of fairy tales and romance, is here to discuss hot wolf boys, brooding Byronic figures, pseudomarriage and pseudovirginity, hot villain discourse, and why young women need beastly men to unlock their sexuality. SHELF LOVE: Join the Conversation on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/ShelfLove __ __ GUEST: DR. NICOLA WELSH-BURKE Twitter https://twitter.com/drnicolawb Dr. Welsh-Burke is an academic and lecturer at Western Sydney University in Sydney, Australia. She’s an early-stage researcher in folklore and fairy tales and the romance genre, and her PhD was on contemporary YA supernatural romance, retellings of little red riding hood from the 21st century.f DISCUSSED: Nicola’s Texts: __ __ The Toast: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A BROODING ROMANTIC HERO https://the-toast.net/2015/10/26/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-brooding-romantic-hero/ Aarne-Thompson-Uther index Little Red Riding Hood is: ATU 425 https://fairy-folk-tale.fandom.com/wiki/ATU_425A:_The_Animal_as_Bridegroom Famous Folklorists & scholars: __ __ Dr. Jodi McAllister: The Consummate Virgin https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-55004-2 Dr. Christina Seifert: pseudovirginity https://ladyprofessorreads.com/about/ The complex fantasy (Diamond, 2011): to have the bad boy, to never come to harm, to have his wildness for one’s self.
