First up in the final #IASPR18 session: @DonnaMHanson on science fiction romance.
Hanson argues that science fiction romance is romance with the "what if?" element of science fiction. #IASPR18
Hanson has one synopsis for both her books: a woman from a technologically advanced culture lands on an alien world and forms a relationship with an alien warrior/barbarian. #IASPR18
Next up: Maria Ramos-Garcia on race and otherness in paranormal romance, feat. JR Ward and Nalini Singh. #IASPR18
Ramos-Garcia: othering can be both metaphorical and literal in paranormal romance. #IASPR18
Next up: @AthenaBellas on the tactile caress and multisensory romance of Outlander. #IASPR18
Bellas: Outlander has a luscious tactility - Claire doesn't just look at Jamie, she touches him. She is doing a textural, rather than a textual, analysis, handling rather than reading. #IASPR18
Bellas: there is a mimetic contact between the screen body and the spectatorial body. #IASPR18
Final paper of #IASPR18: @KristinNoone on the queer medievalist virtual romance of Alexis Hall's Looking For Group. #IASPR18
Noone: this is an in-between text, where the distinction between the medieval and the modern collapses (post-medieval rather than pre-modern). #IASPR18
