PCA ACA Conference- Where Now?

Now, several weeks after the PCA ACA conference, I'm finally getting to the point of typing my notes up. One of the sessions we held was an Open Forum titled Let's Talk Romance. There, we talked about where Romance Scholarship should go in the next years. A major need for many is a place to get articles published, and we worked to create a list of places that might be open to publishing articles on Popular Romance.

As follows, is the list we created, to the best of my note-taking ability.

Specific Journals (with links attached if I could find them)

• Contemporary Literature
• Journal of American Culture
• Journal of Happiness Studies: if written with a psychology bent.
• Journal of Positive Psychology: (another link here) also if written with s psychology bent.
• APA Division 10: Society for Aesthetics and the Arts
• Journal of Popular Culture
• Postmodern Culture
• American Literature
• American Quarterly
• Representations
• Callaloo
• Signs
• Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
  

Ideas for other journals, but not the names specifically.

• Science Fiction/Fantasy Journals: if you take it from a fantastic angle
• Teaching Journals: if written with a teaching perspective
  

PCA ACA Conference

I'm at the PCA ACA conference this weekend. I have a whole bunch of stuff I want to type up, and I'll get to it. Going to be blogging a lot about it, but not now. There's socializing to do!

Abstract for PCA Confrence.

Well, after many revisions I e-mailed my abstract for my paper for the PCA confrence. The due date got extended to the 30th, so I had a bit more time to tweak it, but I wanted to get it in. No word back, but I don't expect to get any for a while. Though I do wish someone had sent me a confirmation e-mail.

Here it is, in all it's brevity:

Deadly Love:
Conflict and Paradigms in Vampire Romance Novels

In her essay “Legends of Seductive Elegance” Anne Stuart claims, “At the heart of the vampire myth is a demon lover who is both elegant and deadly, a creature whose savagery is all the more shocking when taken with his seductive beauty and style” (85). The vampire in paranormal romance novels is a curiously subversive creature. It transforms the long tradition of vampire mythology as seen in the Hades and Persephone myth, the Death and the Maiden figure in 15th century paintings, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The central tension in vampire myth is between the vampire and the human: life and death, innocence and experience, immortality and mortality, age and youth. In traditional vampire stories the way to resolve this human-vampire conflict is the mortals’ death or the vampire’s true death. However, the vampire in paranormal romance is a sympathetic character who deserves a happy ending, which leads authors to resolve conflict in ways that do not result in the death off the hero or the heroine. To achieve these happy endings, several paradigms have evolved within the genre. This paper investigates subversive elements and conflict-resolution paradigms in the paranormal vampire romance genre, focusing on works by Nora Roberts, Christine Feehan, JR Ward and Sherrilyn Kenyon.