Because these scenes always take a woman’s point of view, they are helping female readers reframe “how they understand their own pleasure,”
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Marcela Di Blasi quoted in The Wall Street Journal

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Marcela Di Blasi, was quoted in the article, What Hot Dragon-Riders and Fornicating Faeries Say About What Women Want Now: 'Romantasy' novels are booming when romance in general is in decline, by Anna Louie Sussman. May 23, 2025 9:00 pm ET, published in The Wall Street Journal.  Read the full article at wsj.com

Marcela Di Blasi is an Assistant Professor in the Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies Department. Her current book project, Love and Other Worlds: The Political Value of Romantasy, Pleasure, and Escape  combines literary analysis, media studies, ethnographic research, and quantitative analysis of book sales to understand the significance of the genre's runaway success.