Our next Romance Reading Group online session is based on Time Travel Romances.
Our next 21/22 session will be this Monday 28th February at 6pm GMT via Zoom, so save the date in your calendars! RSVP via: https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/time-travel-romances
This month, the Romance Reading Group will be focusing on all things time travel romance (from novels to films). This academic year, the sessions will in the format of an open discussion, with no preparation is needed, so feel free to just come along and add something to our conversation!
Some examples of time-travel romances:
- Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon (books and TV series)
- One Last Stop by Casey McQuistion (book)
- Time Traveller’s Wife by Lauren Weisberger (book and film)
- My Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Devereux (book)
- About Time (film)
- Lost in Austen (TV series)
- Kate & Leopold (film)
- Transcendence by Shay Savage (book)
We’ll be discussing topics like:
- What’s the appeal of the time-travel romance?
- Is the ‘time travel’ element a trope or a distinct sub-genre of romance?
- Why do we think these texts have declined in popularity?
- How are time travel romances constricted by race, gender and sexuality?
- How does the time-travel element overlap or inform the romantic elements of the book/film?
And more! No need to read anything in advance, if you’ve read or watched one of time-travel romances above (or even if you haven’t) feel free to come along and add something to the conversation!
People are welcome from any university and/or country so feel free to share to friends and/or colleagues that you think would be interested in attending!