Jen Lois
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,…
The Western Libraries Undergraduate Research Award is given annually to three students who demonstrate outstanding library research in the writing of papers for Western Washington University college credit courses that were taught during either fall or winter quarters of the current academic…
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,…
"Love Between the Covers," a feature-length documentary film about the little-known, surprisingly powerful community of women who read and write romance novels, will be screened at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, at Western Washington University.
The showing will be followed by…
Winners of the Western Libraries Undergraduate Research Award were honored at a small reception held in Western Libraries Special Collections on Friday, June 5, 2015, during which Dean of Libraries Mark Greenberg publicly recognized each student for their work and presented the awardees with…
Jen Lois wasn't looking for love.
Then, through a neighbor, she discovered the “Twilight” series and fell hard.
Lois read all four books, then read them again. The WWU sociology professor fell in love with romance novels, where endings are always happily ever after…
Jen Lois, a professor of sociology at Western Washington University, had her book "Home Is Where the School Is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering" published by New York University Press in 2012.
"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…
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…
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.”