Monday 25th November 2024, 6-7pm GMT, Zoom Sign up via: https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/alyssa-coles-the-a-i-who-loved-me-1 We’ve been amiss in this reading group, we’ve been negligent, we’ve been slack: we have not once included a sci-fi romance or a romance originally published as an audiobook… or a romance written by the magnificent Alyssa Cole. So we fed these parameters to … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group – November 2024 Session: Alyssa Cole’s The A.I. Who Loved Me”
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 20th Nov)
The next session of PCTG is on Affect and Video Games, and we’ll be reading Paolo Ruffino’s ‘There is no cure: Paratexts as remediations of agency in Red Dead Redemption 2’.
Romance Reading Group – October 2024 Session: Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour
Monday 28th October 2024, 6-7pm GMT, Zoom Sign up via: https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/bolu-babalolas-love-in-colour It’s that time of the year when excited students fill every available space, IKEA becomes a legit destination, everything comes out in “pumpkin spice” flavor, and the first Christmas ad pops up (it’s too early!). If only we could move beyond cliches, you muse… Well, … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group – October 2024 Session: Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour”
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 30th Oct)
The next session of PCTG discusses the modern vampire and their various generic connotations.
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 2nd Oct)
In the first session of PCTG for the new academic year, we’ll be discussing Tzvetan Todorov’s ‘The Typology of Detective Fiction’.
Page Breaks: Arts Sponsorship (3.30pm, Mon 15 July)
For our final Page Breaks of the year, we will be discussing arts sponsorship. We will be primarily looking at the recent controversy with Baillie Gifford, an investment management firm that invests heavily in the arts, particularly in literary festivals across the UK. At Hay Festival 2024, the literary festival was boycotted by authors and … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Arts Sponsorship (3.30pm, Mon 15 July)”
Romance Reading Group – June Session: Bridgerton: Season 3
Tuesday 18th June 2024, 18:30-19:30 BST, Zoom Sign up for the Zoom link here: https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/bridgerton-season-3 We waited and waited, and since May 16th, we’ve waited some more. But four days is the absolute maximum we can wait for you to watch part II of Bridgerton, Season 3 (Penelope’s & Colin’s story), after it drops on June … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group – June Session: Bridgerton: Season 3”
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 5th June)
PCTG will be back at the start of June to discuss queer podcasts and audio fiction.
Romance Reading Group – May Session: Jodi McAlister’s Not Here to Make Friends
Monday 20th April, 13:00 – 14:00 BST, Zoom Sign up for the Zoom link here: https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/jodi-mcalisters-not-here-to-make-friends We’re so excited for the third novel in the Marry Me, Juliet series by romance author and scholar, Jodi McAlister, Not Here to Make Friends, we’re jumping on it early! Described as “a full-on villain romance novel, filled with lying, scheming and … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group – May Session: Jodi McAlister’s Not Here to Make Friends”
Page Breaks: Retellings (3pm, Mon 13 May, Zoom)
This week, we are moving to a later time and to Zoom for a change! We will be discussing ‘retellings’ or ‘revisions’: those films and TV shows that have been recently remade (Mr. and Mrs. Smith; One Day), as well as novels that rewrite old works, picking out ‘forgotten’ characters (Sandra Newman’s Julia – a … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Retellings (3pm, Mon 13 May, Zoom)”