Profile

Jayashree Kamblé is Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College. She is the author of Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology (Palgrave, 2014) and Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation (Indiana UP, 2023). She has published essays on war and espionage in romance novels (in New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction, 2012) and on romance novel covers (in Romance Fiction and American Culture (2016). She is a co-editor of The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (2020). Her current research on the history of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) American romance authors and editors is supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies/Mellon and the Mellon/CUNY Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative, and appears in the Journal of American Culture, Esferas Literarias, and Contemporary Women’s Writing.