Jayashree Kamblé

Jayashree Kamblé is Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY. Prof. Kamblé is the author of Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology (2014) and co-editor of the Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (2021). She serves as the President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. After completing her second book, Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation (Indiana University Press, 2023), she is now working on a history of BIPOC romance, with the research supported by an American Council of Learned Societies/Mellon fellowship and CUNY Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies grant.

Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine’s Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation

March 20, 2024September 22, 2023 By Jayashree Kamblé

In Creating Identity, Prof. Jayashree Kamblé examines the romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an important question: “Who is the romance heroine, and what does she want?”