Subgenre: Vacation Romance
Kathleen, Georgia, and Amy are sitting back and relaxing into this week’s episode as they discuss the forever escapist subgenre of Vacation Romance.
- February 8, 2026
Kathleen, Georgia, and Amy are sitting back and relaxing into this week’s episode as they discuss the forever escapist subgenre of Vacation Romance.
The Lovers are back breaking down one of Pamela Regis’s essential elements of romance: the Point of Ritual Death (PORD, for short).
The Lovers define the subgenre, unpack specific types of aca-romance, touch on dark academia, worry over defining academic versus college romance, and talk power dynamics,
Romance is defined by its (happy, melty, swoony) endings. This week Amy, Kathleen and Georgia consider one of Pamela Regis’s essential elements of romance: the
Welcome to Love on Campus! If you love all things romance and want to hear about romance fiction, scholarship, and writing, this is the pod
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