PAMLA: Queer Romance Panel, 11/20-11/23, San Francisco
This panel aims to showcase current work on "queer romance," a subject that describes the enfolding of queer sexualities and genders within the popular romance genre. While we welcome careful close readings of specific texts, we are most interested in papers that help to theorize and historicize what it means that a genre once defined in terms of its heteronormative imaginary now openly features queer and trans-identified characters and holds considerable appeal for similarly identified publics of readers and viewers. We are also particularly interested in work that helps us to think queer romance across forms of media, in relation to deep histories of the romance genre, and in transnational and global contexts.