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Amy Burge

Associate Professor in Popular Fiction, University of Birmingham

Associate Professor in Popular Fiction, University of Birmingham My research interests lie in popular fiction (especially romance). I am interested in genre fiction, publishing, women’s writing, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and migration. I have published research on: * contemporary women’s historical fiction * sexualisation and women’s advice literature * medieval and modern literary representations of virginity * class and wealth in popular romance fiction * chick lit from the Middle East * imperialism in the medieval romance Emaré * Scottish popular romance in the twentieth century * migration fiction. I have edited special issues on E. M. Hull's early twentieth-century classic novel, The Sheik, multi-disciplinary approaches to critical love studies, and medieval romance, gender and materiality. My first book, Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance (Palgrave, 2016) is a comparative study of Orientalism in medieval and modern popular romance and compares the representation of erotic relationships across religious and cultural borders in late medieval Orientalist romance (1330-1450) and British and North American post 9/11 romantic fiction. I m Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded Muslim Women's Popular Fiction research network: https://more.bham.ac.uk/mwpf-network/ I am the Managing Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies: https://www.jprstudies.org/