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Javaria Farooqui
@javariafarooqui.bsky.social
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Research areas: popular romance, book history, postcolonialism, media/cinema, gender, and fandom. Shameless posting of published research across all socials.
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Coolest call for book proposals!

#romance #power #desire #AcademicSky #booksky #academicwriting #books
September 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Sharing Ayesha Muzaffer's " Bhabies of Lahore" again because it is a very indigenous, very cultural brand of horror. The stories know the difference between a churail and a ghost & show why certain nights feel heavier in our part of the world. Cool, spooky, and South Asian!

#horror #pakistan
Book "Bhabies of Lahore"
September 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Got Rosemary Pennington's very interesting book, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media," from the book exhibit at PCA, NO, 2025. I've loved the chapter on Ms Marvel Kamala Khan. Conference book hauls are best!

#bookhaul #popislam #amreading #AcademicSky #msmarvel #booksky
Book titled Pop Islam
August 23, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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My book opposes any claims of homogeneity or simple intellectual abilities of the genre fans & explores how fictional representations of the time and space of one era invoke feelings of belonging, nostalgia, & romance in readers of another time and space.
#romancelandia #AcademicSky #fanstudies
Cover of my book "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan"
August 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Please find attached some cool visuals from my recent academic travels. The purpose of this post is
(a) posting for the sake of posting, and
(b) trying new tools to botch up recorded videos.
#academictourism #newzealand #USA #Mexico #AcademicSky
August 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Too tired to clean up the chaos on the desk, too happy to start reading a romance after submitting a revised chapter on reading the romance!
Beverly Barton: Just the Way You Are

#romancebooks #amreading #romancelandia
Chaos on desk
July 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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The play of lights on park benches, leaves on the ground, and bright greens... I quite like this photo.

Coyoacán, June 25.
July 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Winding up academic tourism in Mexico City [courtesy of the keynote invite by IASPR] with my photo with/of the amazing vibrant books that I can't read!

#bookish #AcademicSky #mexicocity #colours
June 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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One of the most adorable bookstores I have ever seen: Under the Volcano Books, Mexico City. It is the only bookstore with Anglophone books. The highlight of the visit for me was people shouting "books!!!!" to get to the store!
#bookish #mexicocity #AcademicSky
June 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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As an academic-tourist with nada level of Spanish, visiting bookstores and bookstalls in Mexico City has been a rich experience. This place is in love with libros! Proliferation of street book vendors, small independent bookstores, & stalls.
#bookish #AcademicSky #MexicoCity
June 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Honored to be the keynote speaker at @iaspr.bsky.social in Mexico City. It was an amazing moment in my journey as a popular genre scholar! Feeling national pride in being invited as a keynote speaker by a tremendously prestigious international conference.
#Mexico #Pakistan #AcademicSky
Abstract Me
June 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Came across these photos of antique writing paraphernalia while scrolling through my gallery today. It was such fun looking at these quills & ink pots in New Orleans. Sharing now because we deserve reminders of good things like writing and quills in life!

#writing #photography
Paper knives, quills, pens Ink pots
June 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Forever a Jennifer Cruise fan! Her collaborative fiction projects are not at the "Bet Me" level of awesomeness, but this series is still pretty cool.

#amreading #readingforpleasure 💙📚
June 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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"My happy ending lies in understanding the innermost fears of the women in my family who love me and did not want me to end up as a poor professor wearing broken slippers..."
Happy to share my new essay in @jprstudies.bsky.social
www.jprstudies.org/2025/05/brok...
#AcademicSky #romancelandia
May 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Books, Bestie, and Coffee: Analysing the Psychological Impact of Book Consumerism and Café Culture on Sustainable Friendships in Urban Centres [😅]

#books #Coffee #friends
Coffee, books, and bestie
May 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Sunday travels with Dagupta' "Debating Darcy," which has Samiya Arif's cover art, featuring Pakistani model Trinette Lucas & TV romcom actor Khushal Khan [samyaarif.com/Debating-Darcy…]. All this feels like Austen’s South Asian fandom 🫶
#janeausten #romancelandia 💙📚
Debating Darcy, novel
May 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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The Story Shop Book Store in DHA has this wonderful collection of books [old books in perfect condition & latest titles] and browsing around is 🔥. Heaps of romance genre fiction, too❤️
I love my research field trips!!!

#AcademicSky #books #romance #research 💙📚
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Beckham's BookShop, New Orleans. Old bookshops have a charm of their own, and this one has such old world feels. It was like stepping into a world of secrets, old tales, bibliosmia, and magic!
More bookshop photos over at insta!
#travel #photography #oldbookshops 💙📚
Bookshop photo
May 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Me: Where does one start working on the heaps of unfinished drafts on this miraculously free half day?

Also me: posting irrelevant media from the last conference trip!!!

#AcademicChatter #writing #procrastinating #travelphotography
May 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I have been able to talk about my book,"Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency," in #Lahore,#Tauranga (NZ), #Sargodha,& #NewOrleans (USA) & I just felt like sharing some photos 📚💙
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/romance-f...
#Romancelandia #academicsky @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Art makes you pause!
Spotted the 'Standing Ovation' sculpture at DFW airport on my way back to Pakistan after the popular culture conference last month. So many life-sized human hands forever frozen in applause— interesting sight!

#travelphotography #art
Standing Ovation statue at DFW airport
May 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Read half this book in a New Zealand library last year, got hooked, had US cousins find it for me in Dallas. Now finishing it in Lahore. Books, reading practices, & readers have such fun histories!
#books #romancelandia 💙📚
Suleena Bibra's "Two Houses"
April 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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The best moments at @pcaaca.bsky.social included:
1. Signing my book for enthusiastic readers, and
2. Stumbling upon readers showing interest in my book on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social display table.
#readers #happiness
April 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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The Romance Area presentations at #pcaaca25 are just so lit. I can't ever not be overwhelmed by the generous sharing of knowledge by popular romance scholars. #romancelandia and scholarly #romancelandia are simply 🔥

#research #romance #happilyeverafter
April 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Got the Michael and Madonna Marsden Grant to present my research "Power, Madness, and Despair: Post #MeToo Analysis of Love Stories on Pakistani Television" at Popular Culture Association conference in New Orleans. Grateful to @pcaaca.bsky.social for this rich experience.
#AcademicSky #romancelandia
April 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM