Articles

  • Ripoll-Fonollar, Mariana: “(Post)Feminist Genealogies in Kate Muir’s Suffragette City ad Lisa Evans’ Old Baggage“, Alicante Journal of English Studies 42, 2025: 137-157. [OPEN ACCESS]
  • Teo, Hsu-Ming. “Exploring Anachronism, Ornamentalism, and Citizenization in the Postracial Regency World of Bridgerton”, Clio: A Journal for History, Literature, and the Philosophy of History, vol. 51, 2, 2024.
  • Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina. “”The Reparative Potential of (Self-)Love in Daughters Who Walk this Path” Archivum LXXIV (2), 2024: 227-254. [OPEN ACCESS]
  • Fresno-Calleja, Paloma. “A Little City with a Big Heart: Localising the Chick-lit Formula in Kate O’Keeffe’s Wellywood Romantic Comedy Series”, Journal of Popular Romance Studies vol 13, 2024: 1-18. [OPEN ACCESS]
  • Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina. “The Affective Forces of the State: Overcoming Biographies of Violence in Yejide Kilanko’s Daughters Who Walk this Path “, Miscelanea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 69, 2024: 131-50. [OPEN ACCESS]
  • Burge, Amy. “Marriage migration, intimacy and genre in Helen Hoang’s The Bride Test (2019) and Brigitte Bautista’s You, Me, U.S. (2019)”. Literature, Critique and Empire Today. Published online 16 September 2024. [OPEN ACCESS]
  • Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina. 2024. “Postromanticising the Nigerian Nation in Chinelo Okrapanta’s Under the Udala Trees and Ayòbámi Adébayò’s Stay with Me“, Contemporary Women’s Writing, 17.3, 2023: 317-333.
  • Pérez-Fernández, Irene. 2024. “Black British Love Matters: Asserting the Transformative Power of Love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold“, Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Published online 20 February [OPEN ACCESS]
  • Kamblé, Jayashree. 2023. “Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and Now”, Esferas Literarias (6): 39-55 [OPEN ACCESS]
  • Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina. 2024. “From Bildungsroman to Bildungsromance: Physical and Affective War in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees” Alicante Journal of English Studies (40): 97-117. [OPEN ACCESS]
  • Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: “Introduction: New Romantic Narratives for the 21st century”, Esferas Literarias 6, 2023: pp. 1-5. [OPEN ACCESS]
  • Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina. 2023. “Nigerian Women Negotiating Beauty, Power, and Love in the Romantic Web Series Skinny Girl in Transit” Esferas Literarias (6): 71-83. [OPEN ACCESS]
  • Fresno-Calleja, Paloma. 2023. “Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesa Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance”, Interventions. An International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 25.1: 100-117.
  • Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina. 2023. “The Benevolent Dictator: Love and Masculine Performativity in Stay with Me” Complutense Journal of English Studies (31): 1-11. [OPEN ACESS]

Book Chapters

  • Fresno-Calleja, Paloma and Hsu-Ming Teo: “Introduction: Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction” in Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? London: Routledge (forthcoming 2025).
  • Teo, Hsu-Ming and Astrid Schwegler-Castañer: “Post/Colonial Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dinah Jefferies’ The Tea Planter’s Wife and Before the Rains“, in Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? London: Routledge (forthcoming 2025).
  • Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: “’The Most Romantic Place On Earth’: Exoticism, Militourism and Romance in Women’s Historical Fiction of the Pacific War”, in Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? London: Routledge (forthcoming 2025).
  • Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina: “(Mis)Guiding Readers through Colonial Kenya and South Africa: The Fetishisation of the Dark Continent in Jennifer McVeigh’s The Fever Tree and Leopard at the Door“, in Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? London: Routledge (forthcoming 2025).
  • Pérez-Fernández, Irene: “Caribbean Plantation Life through Rose-Tinted Glasses: The Romantic Neo-Historical Novels of Sarah Lark and Michelle Paver”, in Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? London: Routledge (forthcoming 2025).
  • Miquel Pomar-Amer: “’Sun, sex, secrets and a very uncivil war’: Menorca, the Spanish Civil War and the pact of forgetting in Jo Eames’ The Faithless Wife“, in Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? London: Routledge (forthcoming 2025).
  • Teo, Hsu-Ming and Paloma Fresno-Calleja: “Introduction: Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History”, in Conflict and Colonialism: Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History. Eds Hsu-Ming Teo and Paloma Fresno-Calleja. London: Routledge, 1-25. [OPEN ACCESS]
  • Kamblé, Jayashree: “Love in Victorian London: Immigrant Histories and Intersecting Diversities in K.J. Charles’ Sins of the Cities, in Conflict and Colonialism: Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History. Eds Hsu-Ming Teo and Paloma Fresno-Calleja. London: Routledge, 67-91.
  • Ripoll-Fonollar, Mariana: “Suffragette Historical Romances: Re-Purposing Women’s Suffrage in a Postfeminist Context”, in Conflict and Colonialism: Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History. Eds Hsu-Ming Teo and Paloma Fresno-Calleja. London: Routledge, 115-131.
  • Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina:“The US Civil War and Its Aftermath in Historical Quaker Romances: Hailing White Heroines as Builders and Healers of the Nation”, in Conflict and Colonialism: Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History. Eds Hsu-Ming Teo and Paloma Fresno-Calleja. London: Routledge, 132-156.
  • Teo, Hsu-Ming: “The Australian Convict Prostitute Romance: Narrating Social and Sexual Justice for “Damned Whores”” in Conflict and Colonialism: Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History. Eds Hsu-Ming Teo and Paloma Fresno-Calleja. London: Routledge, 26-49.
  • Teo, Hsu-Ming: “When a Jew Loves a Nazi: Problems with Repurposing the Holocaust for Reparative Romance” in Conflict and Colonialism: Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History. Eds Hsu-Ming Teo and Paloma Fresno-Calleja. London: Routledge, 180-208.

Reviews

  • Fresno-Calleja, Paloma: Review of Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica. Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction. Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries by M.I. González Cruz (ed.), Miscelanea: Journal of English and American Studies 69, 2024: 233-238. [OPEN ACCESS]
  • Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada: Review of American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation by C. Fernández Rodríguez, Nexus 22.2, 2023: 83-86. [OPEN ACCESS]

Other publications

  • Ripoll-Fonollar, Mariana: “¿Quiénes fueron las suffragettes?”, The Conversation, 29 mayo de 2022.
  • Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada: “¿Qué buscan los lectores de relatos románticos?”, The Conversation, 6 enero de 2019