Radclyffe, Nell Stark, Lynda Sandoval, and Carsen Taite
at the 2011 PCA/ACA Conference after our panel,
"Queering the Romantic Heroine." Editor Ruth Sternglantz,
who co-wrote a paper with Carsen Taite, was not able to join us.
In April of 2011, five Bold Strokes Books authors and associates presented academic papers at the 2011 Popular Culture Association's National Conference. Our papers were a part of the "Popular Romance Studies" area of the conference.
Our panel, titled "Queering the Romantic Heroine," was attended predominately by scholars of gender studies and romance literature, including the President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) and the Executive Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies.
To read PDFs of the papers, click on each title listed below (in order of their presentation on the panel):
- The Queer Heroine as a Reimagined Reflection by Lynda Sandoval
- Where the Wild Things Are: Lesbian Romance and the Undomesticated Queer Hero by Ruth Sternglantz and Carsen Taite
- Queering the Alpha by Radclyffe
In June of 2011, Radclyffe, Nell Stark, Lynda Sandoval, and editor Ruth Sternglantz will attend IASPR's annual conference in New York City.