Dr Amy Burge
@dramyburge.bsky.social
Associate Professor of popular fiction. Romance specialist. Managing Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Network Lead for Muslim Women's Popular Fiction project. She/her. Currently writing about bonkbusters with @jodimca.bsky.social
On my way to give a talk at @northumbriauni.bsky.social and it feels entirely appropriate to be prepping next week's class on Catherine Cookson on the train!
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
On my way to give a talk at @northumbriauni.bsky.social and it feels entirely appropriate to be prepping next week's class on Catherine Cookson on the train!
Did Regency romance mad libs with my students today (from Beyond Heaving Bosoms by @smartbitches.bsky.social) so am I a cool teacher now?
October 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Did Regency romance mad libs with my students today (from Beyond Heaving Bosoms by @smartbitches.bsky.social) so am I a cool teacher now?
We have been researching her works for a few years now - @jodimca.bsky.social and I wrote about the late Jilly Cooper's work and the readers who loved her for @theconversation.com
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
Jilly Cooper: why readers still cherish her ‘fat, fun, frothy novels’
Many of Cooper’s depictions of sex are very funny. However, there is a clear message throughout.
urldefense.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We have been researching her works for a few years now - @jodimca.bsky.social and I wrote about the late Jilly Cooper's work and the readers who loved her for @theconversation.com
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
Finally received a copy of this from the publisher (although ebook only, and I can't download it?!) and was reminded that @menysnoweballes.bsky.social and I wrote some SMART thoughts (probably all from Rachel tbh).
Hi Barbies! Pleased that @dramyburge.bsky.social & my chapter, '‘The man behind the tan’: Ken’s Trumpian Absurdity' has been published in the exciting new book The Barbie Phenomenon, Volume 1! www.routledge.com/The-Barbie-P...
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media.tenor.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Finally received a copy of this from the publisher (although ebook only, and I can't download it?!) and was reminded that @menysnoweballes.bsky.social and I wrote some SMART thoughts (probably all from Rachel tbh).
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Hi Barbies! Pleased that @dramyburge.bsky.social & my chapter, '‘The man behind the tan’: Ken’s Trumpian Absurdity' has been published in the exciting new book The Barbie Phenomenon, Volume 1! www.routledge.com/The-Barbie-P...
a close up of a barbie doll with blonde hair
ALT: a close up of a barbie doll with blonde hair
media.tenor.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Hi Barbies! Pleased that @dramyburge.bsky.social & my chapter, '‘The man behind the tan’: Ken’s Trumpian Absurdity' has been published in the exciting new book The Barbie Phenomenon, Volume 1! www.routledge.com/The-Barbie-P...
This is true, we do! Thanks @lauravivanco.bsky.social
@dramyburge.bsky.social and Joseph Crawford have a short article out on the legacy and impact of Twilight
Twilight at 20: how Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga changed young adult fiction forever
In 2005, Twilight’s adolescent female readership made it a target for mockery. Today, that same demographic is the most coveted in publishing.
theconversation.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is true, we do! Thanks @lauravivanco.bsky.social
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Cover reveal! @dramyburge.bsky.social and I revealed the cover of our new academic book, The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long 1980s, at the @iaspr.bsky.social conference today. Out January 2026! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bonkbuste...
June 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Cover reveal! @dramyburge.bsky.social and I revealed the cover of our new academic book, The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long 1980s, at the @iaspr.bsky.social conference today. Out January 2026! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bonkbuste...
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I wrote a blog post about my book!
Want some ramblings about fairy ladies, magical princesses, and serpent women (and how we should feel about them)? Or just curious about how reading medieval romance is like watching Star Wars??
It's all here, folks (and also a 35% discount 👀)!
Want some ramblings about fairy ladies, magical princesses, and serpent women (and how we should feel about them)? Or just curious about how reading medieval romance is like watching Star Wars??
It's all here, folks (and also a 35% discount 👀)!
From exotic princesses to wicked witches, Jane Bonsall explores how magical femininity was imagined by romance readers in late #medieval England in our latest blog post: buff.ly/edWgwaj @janebonsall.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I wrote a blog post about my book!
Want some ramblings about fairy ladies, magical princesses, and serpent women (and how we should feel about them)? Or just curious about how reading medieval romance is like watching Star Wars??
It's all here, folks (and also a 35% discount 👀)!
Want some ramblings about fairy ladies, magical princesses, and serpent women (and how we should feel about them)? Or just curious about how reading medieval romance is like watching Star Wars??
It's all here, folks (and also a 35% discount 👀)!
The promotion trajectory of Wrexham AFC (3x in 3 years) is *literally* the plot of Jilly Cooper's book Tackle!, so which owner is secretly Rupert Campbell-Black: Ryan Reynolds or Rob McElhenney?
April 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The promotion trajectory of Wrexham AFC (3x in 3 years) is *literally* the plot of Jilly Cooper's book Tackle!, so which owner is secretly Rupert Campbell-Black: Ryan Reynolds or Rob McElhenney?
Today was @alcs.co.uk payment day! Always a delightful surprise, and a reminder authors should be paid for their work.
A less delightful surprise this week was finding out that 8 things I've published, including the monograph based on my PhD research, have been used by Meta to train their AI.
A less delightful surprise this week was finding out that 8 things I've published, including the monograph based on my PhD research, have been used by Meta to train their AI.
March 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Today was @alcs.co.uk payment day! Always a delightful surprise, and a reminder authors should be paid for their work.
A less delightful surprise this week was finding out that 8 things I've published, including the monograph based on my PhD research, have been used by Meta to train their AI.
A less delightful surprise this week was finding out that 8 things I've published, including the monograph based on my PhD research, have been used by Meta to train their AI.
There I was, minding my own business, reading my Jackie Collins (technically work as @jodimca.bsky.social would attest) when I was asked about what I was reading for Read This podcast! Always delighted to talk about bonkbusters (I'm on at 7:20).
open.spotify.com/episode/31Er...
open.spotify.com/episode/31Er...
December 20, 2024 at 5:19 AM
There I was, minding my own business, reading my Jackie Collins (technically work as @jodimca.bsky.social would attest) when I was asked about what I was reading for Read This podcast! Always delighted to talk about bonkbusters (I'm on at 7:20).
open.spotify.com/episode/31Er...
open.spotify.com/episode/31Er...
Mine and @jodimca.bsky.social's piece on the Rivals TV show for @uk.theconversation.com has been picked up by RNZ!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Rivals: the highs and lows of adapting a 1980s 'bonkbuster' for a 21st-century TV audience
The bonkbuster receded into the background of popular culture in the 21st century. So why is it having a cultural moment in 2024?
www.rnz.co.nz
November 20, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Mine and @jodimca.bsky.social's piece on the Rivals TV show for @uk.theconversation.com has been picked up by RNZ!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Today is a reading day at the State Library of Victoria 📖
November 20, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Today is a reading day at the State Library of Victoria 📖
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This is tomorrow!! @dramyburge.bsky.social and I will be presenting our keynote on bonkbusters first up, from 10:15-11:15am. If you're in Melbourne, come along and let us tell you about some truly bonkers books.
If you're in Melbourne on Thursday 21 November - @dramyburge.bsky.social and I are keynoting this symposium on Nostalgia and Popular Culture, where we'll be speaking about our research on bonkbusters. Registration here (it's free).
Nostalgia and Popular Culture Symposium
Get tickets on Humanitix - Nostalgia and Popular Culture Symposium. Deakin Burwood Corporate Centre (BCC), BC, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood VIC 3125, Australia. Thursday 21st November 2024. Find event inf...
events.humanitix.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:26 PM
This is tomorrow!! @dramyburge.bsky.social and I will be presenting our keynote on bonkbusters first up, from 10:15-11:15am. If you're in Melbourne, come along and let us tell you about some truly bonkers books.
Couldn't find her handle before but this article partly looks at @brijbautista.bsky.social's novel You, Me, U.S. (2019)
Now that it's fully open access, happy to share this article of mine that was recently published in Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly Journal of Commonwealth Literature) on marriage migration in romance novels by Helen Hoang and Brigitte Bautista!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Couldn't find her handle before but this article partly looks at @brijbautista.bsky.social's novel You, Me, U.S. (2019)
Now that it's fully open access, happy to share this article of mine that was recently published in Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly Journal of Commonwealth Literature) on marriage migration in romance novels by Helen Hoang and Brigitte Bautista!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 18, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Now that it's fully open access, happy to share this article of mine that was recently published in Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly Journal of Commonwealth Literature) on marriage migration in romance novels by Helen Hoang and Brigitte Bautista!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
I had an absolutely wonderful time at Edith Cowan Uni in Perth talking all things Love Studies with Madalena Grobbelar, Elizabeth Reid Boyd and Debra Dudek! Dream collaboration team - and there is TONS of exciting research coming out of the ECU network.
November 15, 2024 at 3:41 AM
I had an absolutely wonderful time at Edith Cowan Uni in Perth talking all things Love Studies with Madalena Grobbelar, Elizabeth Reid Boyd and Debra Dudek! Dream collaboration team - and there is TONS of exciting research coming out of the ECU network.
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ICYMI, Melbourne! @dramyburge.bsky.social and I are psyched to be giving this keynote to talk all about the books and readers of Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Shirley Conran and Judith Krantz.
If you're in Melbourne on Thursday 21 November - @dramyburge.bsky.social and I are keynoting this symposium on Nostalgia and Popular Culture, where we'll be speaking about our research on bonkbusters. Registration here (it's free).
Nostalgia and Popular Culture Symposium
Get tickets on Humanitix - Nostalgia and Popular Culture Symposium. Deakin Burwood Corporate Centre (BCC), BC, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood VIC 3125, Australia. Thursday 21st November 2024. Find event inf...
events.humanitix.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:41 AM
ICYMI, Melbourne! @dramyburge.bsky.social and I are psyched to be giving this keynote to talk all about the books and readers of Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Shirley Conran and Judith Krantz.
Reposted by Dr Amy Burge
Hi everyone!
Happily resharing that my little book will be out in the world on 28th November. It is about the anglophone romance reading fandom in Pakistan, book history, & some bits of postcolonialism.
#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #Romancelandia
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/romance-f...
Happily resharing that my little book will be out in the world on 28th November. It is about the anglophone romance reading fandom in Pakistan, book history, & some bits of postcolonialism.
#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #Romancelandia
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/romance-f...
Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan
Romance Fandom in 21st-century Pakistan offers the first major study of English-speaking romance fandom in South Asia, providing a new reader-centric model that…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 12, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Hi everyone!
Happily resharing that my little book will be out in the world on 28th November. It is about the anglophone romance reading fandom in Pakistan, book history, & some bits of postcolonialism.
#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #Romancelandia
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/romance-f...
Happily resharing that my little book will be out in the world on 28th November. It is about the anglophone romance reading fandom in Pakistan, book history, & some bits of postcolonialism.
#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #Romancelandia
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/romance-f...
Had THE BEST time chatting about Rivals and mine and @jodimca.bsky.social's research on Ireland AM this morning!
This is my in-the-office-before-8.15am face 😂
This is my in-the-office-before-8.15am face 😂
October 22, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Had THE BEST time chatting about Rivals and mine and @jodimca.bsky.social's research on Ireland AM this morning!
This is my in-the-office-before-8.15am face 😂
This is my in-the-office-before-8.15am face 😂
For anyone else watching the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, released today, @jodimca.bsky.social and I wrote a piece for @uk.theconversation.com!
theconversation.com/rivals-the-h...
theconversation.com/rivals-the-h...
Rivals: the highs and lows of adapting a 1980s ‘bonkbuster’ for a 21st-century TV audience
Even those unfamiliar with the genre will no doubt enjoy the adaption of Jilly Cooper’s frothy novel. But how will the TV version approach the less savoury attitudes that were prevalent in the 1980s?
theconversation.com
October 18, 2024 at 2:15 PM
For anyone else watching the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, released today, @jodimca.bsky.social and I wrote a piece for @uk.theconversation.com!
theconversation.com/rivals-the-h...
theconversation.com/rivals-the-h...
I learned enough on my last trip to Australia to understand what this film is about (and also why it should have been released on the 21st December)
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How To Make Gravy | Official Trailer | BINGE
YouTube video by BINGE
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October 9, 2024 at 8:29 AM
I learned enough on my last trip to Australia to understand what this film is about (and also why it should have been released on the 21st December)
youtu.be/K_Fwe9Q6NB0?...
youtu.be/K_Fwe9Q6NB0?...
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Hey Australian scholars! Do you have some thoughts on nostalgia and popular fiction? Deakin's having a symposium on November 21!
@dramyburge.bsky.social & I are delighted to be the keynotes, presenting some of our work on bonkbusters. Full CFP link here (goes to a PDF): bit.ly/3ZidjRJ
@dramyburge.bsky.social & I are delighted to be the keynotes, presenting some of our work on bonkbusters. Full CFP link here (goes to a PDF): bit.ly/3ZidjRJ
October 3, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Hey Australian scholars! Do you have some thoughts on nostalgia and popular fiction? Deakin's having a symposium on November 21!
@dramyburge.bsky.social & I are delighted to be the keynotes, presenting some of our work on bonkbusters. Full CFP link here (goes to a PDF): bit.ly/3ZidjRJ
@dramyburge.bsky.social & I are delighted to be the keynotes, presenting some of our work on bonkbusters. Full CFP link here (goes to a PDF): bit.ly/3ZidjRJ
It's behind a paywall, but I was quoted in a piece on Colleen Hoover in the Irish Sunday Independent's Life magazine this weekend!
www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
The CoHo boom: How Colleen Hoover’s trauma-filled novels became such a global phenomenon
A young woman sits on her couch, an open book in her hands, its partially obscured pastel pink cover immediately recognisable as Colleen Hoover’s global sensation It Ends with Us (IEWU). While a mourn...
www.independent.ie
July 30, 2024 at 9:36 AM
It's behind a paywall, but I was quoted in a piece on Colleen Hoover in the Irish Sunday Independent's Life magazine this weekend!
www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
Great article! If you're collecting info on more ethical academic journals, the independent Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social (for which I am the current managing editor) has been open access with no fees since 2009 and is indexed in Scopus/Scimago. www.jprstudies.org
July 16, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Great article! If you're collecting info on more ethical academic journals, the independent Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social (for which I am the current managing editor) has been open access with no fees since 2009 and is indexed in Scopus/Scimago. www.jprstudies.org