Individual presenters and panelists are invited to examine the popular culture of romance writers & romance writing for the association's annual regional conference. This conference will provide you with a wonderful opportunity to share scholarly interests and to gain insights into romance fiction with other academics and interested individuals.

We are looking for individual paper proposal submissions and/or panel proposals for this unique genre of fiction. Topics might include, but are not limited to, issues such as archetypes, the body, conformity, conventions, culture, ethnic roles, gender, genre, the hero and heroine, history, ideal female/male representations, love, myth, power, sex and sex roles, social aspects, social expectations, subversion, technology, transcendence, values, virtues. E-mail me some titles of recent presentations.

Those interested in presenting a paper or participating on a panel at this conference should send an abstract of approximately 100 words (or more) to me, the area chair, no later than November 15, 2006.