Anna Michelson

Sociologist. Pop culture aficionado. Twitter lurker. Website:

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

Pleased to share that my article "The Politics of Happily-Ever-After: Romance Genre Fiction as Aesthetic Public Sphere" is now available online at AJCS @CulturalSociol. Read it here: https://t.co/3GH3Is0vag

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

Very excited to have a chapter included in this book!

[M. Angélica Thumala O. @mthumala]

How do people read and what does the practice mean in 19th c Chile, 20th c East Africa, China, Czechoslovakia, 21st c Iran, the UK, the US, Australia or amongst the transnational readership of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez?

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

@socintraining Following because I'm teaching Families in this winter 👀 When I was a TA students liked Edin & Kefalas (Promises I Can Keep book or their shorter Contexts piece).

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

Great new article from my colleague @TubiOmri on infrastructural capital and how governments secure vaccines

[NU Sociology @NUsociology]

Another NU grad student has signed on the dotted line! Congrats Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc on your new role as Asst. Professor of Sociology @Mac_College. Her current work looks at how the boundaries of #RomanceBooks have evolved to include contested subgenres. #sociology #NewJob

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

@DrLauraVivanco @HerHandsMyHands @ScribblingSandy @JenReadsRomance I'm working on an article that aims to present a more comprehensive history of erotic romance as a classification. Hopefully in a few months there will be a new article to add to the database!

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

@nancywyuen Not central to the overall show, but Guy Pearce's supporting character in Mare of Easttown is a writer/adjunct professor

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

@JoshuaBasseches @philipjfang I think I got the same email. 1 in 200 pretty much confirms it haha

[AJCS -- American Journal of Cultural Sociology @CulturalSociol]

The #AJCS SPECIAL ISSUE (9.2) on the THE CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY OF READING, guest edited by María Angélica Thumala Olave & Jeffrey C. Alexander, is now available online @ https://t.co/eHXIH5AuE8

Editorial introduction: https://t.co/9S5lYmjdW5

#culturalsociologyofreading #soctwitter

[Jun (Philip) Fang @philipjfang]

My friends Antonio Nanni and @MalloryFallin just published a cool piece in @Poetics_Journal on climate change and how symbolic boundaries exist within an interdisciplinary field. The title is 🔥
https://t.co/UPKGgGzhqP

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

@ArtOfTheClinch Yes!

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

@ShelfLovePod The first thing that came to mind was not a single book or a genre but celebrity book club picks (in general). Especially Reese Witherspoon's book club.

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

@ShelfLovePod I second The Brown Sisters series and For Real, and would add The Kiss Quotient and The Bride Test by Helen Hoang.

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

@selinger_eric @stegan My forthcoming (sociology) dissertation explores the American romance community 1981-present (starting when it was formalized with RT and RWA). As NOT a trained historian, even 40 years of data feels daunting! Would love to see more historical work.

[M. Angélica Thumala O. @mthumala]

leisure reading is done in the context and under the shadow (or the light!) of the prestige and sacralisation of books and texts. The Cultural Sociology of Reading Special Issue out now https://t.co/SjjBGoYicT

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

@annehelen https://t.co/DUxKfe6Kw7

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

@BriMcKernan @CulturalSociol Thank you @BriMcKernan! Like your "Meaning of a Game" article, I find similar debate over whether the space should even be an aesthetic public sphere. Big fan of your work!

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

Pleased to share that my article "The Politics of Happily-Ever-After: Romance Genre Fiction as Aesthetic Public Sphere" is now available online at AJCS @CulturalSociol. Read it here: https://t.co/3GH3Is0vag

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

@ShelfLovePod There's lots I couldn't include due to time/space constraints, like a detailed discussion of RWA crisis, Romancing the Runoff, and Bridgerton discourse. Would love to hear what romance folks think of the arguments in relation to these issues!

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

@DrLauraVivanco Thank you @DrLauraVivanco! Your book Pursuing Happiness was very foundational to my thinking in this article.

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

This isn't new or surprising if you are already in Romancelandia! But it's productive to bridge cultural sociology and romance studies for a robust understanding of genre not only as text, but as community.

[Anna Michelson @anna_m_soc]

There is consensus that romance is about hope. Romance is a particular kind of reading experience because readers can engage w sociopolitical issues confident in the HEA.