Jen Lois

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Audible's new service helps romance novel fans skip straight to 'the good part'

This stigma hasn't necessarily abated since the publishing of "Fifty Shades of Grey," the bestselling erotic romance novel from British author E.L. James that spurred two sequels and a blockbuster film franchise. That series was many readers' first forays into erotic fiction,…

2017-11-02
Submissions being taken for Western Libraries Undergraduate Research Award 2016-03-30
Free-range education: Why the unschooling movement is growing

On a late Monday morning in this rural New Hampshire town, Dayna and Joe Martin’s four children are all home. Devin, age 16, is hammering a piece of steel in the blacksmith forge he and his parents built out of a storage shed in the backyard. Tiffany, 14, is twirling on a hoverboard,…

2016-02-16
Screening, discussion to look at community of romance readers, writers 2016-02-03
Students given awards for undergraduate research 2015-06-10
From Window Magazine: Shameless 2014-01-31
Lois has homeschooling book published by NYU Press 2014-01-02
Romance, gender, and the measure of a 'real book'

"Why would you waste your talent on writing … that?" Most romance authors have gotten a similar question. (This one came many years ago from a dear friend who has since taken it back, and not because there were threats involved. I swear.) University professors Joanna Gregson and Jen…

2013-08-12
An interview with Drs. Joanna Gregson and Jen Lois about the gendered community of romance

I sat down with Dr. Joanna Gregson and Dr. Jen Lois, two professors of sociology who are doing a years-long study of the sociology of the romance writing community. I attended their session at RWA and tweeted the pants off it (you can read the Storify collection of tweets if you'd like to…

2013-07-31
WWU Talks Self-Injury

A pair of renowned sociologists are visiting Western Washington University to talk about people who injure themselves Friday.

Patricia and Peter Adler are authors of the new book, “The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury.”

2012-05-04
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