Women’s & Gender Studies – CAHSS and Effect

Riding the Waves of Genre Wars: Beach Read by Emily Henry

If you’re anything like me, you want to hang on to those last moments of summer—the sparkle of sun on […]

This Friday (presuming no cataclysmic network outage and hoping CAHSS and Effect didn’t decide to finally revoke this column) sees […]

I’ve been fascinating with Gilded Age literature ever since I read my first Edith Wharton novel—for fun, in high school. […]

I have to write these things in advance. Normally, that means thinking about a particular game or topic that will […]

Romance fiction’s promise of a happy, emotionally satisfying ending has always been one of its selling points for readers. I […]

Earlier this month, id Software released Doom: Eternal, the latest entry in the wildly popular Doom franchise. While the latest […]

One critique of the romance genre is that the happy endings hide everything that comes after—the often less than-happy reality […]

In the grand arc of video game history, we are at the point where obscurity is now a relative concept […]

Welcome to happy hearts: romance reviews! Each month, I’ll share reviews and recommendations of romance novels I love. My reviews […]