Dr Amy Burge BA, MA, PhD

Dr Amy Burge

Department of English Literature
Associate Professor in Popular Fiction

Contact details

Email
a.burge@bham.ac.uk
Twitter

My teaching and research interests are in popular fiction, in particular romance, both medieval and modern. My work is intersectional and focuses on gender, ethnicity and sexuality. I’m currently working on a literary history of romantic masculinity and a project exploring Arab and Muslim women’s genre fiction.

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) English and Related Literature (University of York)
  • MA (Hons) Women’s Studies (Humanities) (University of York)
  • PhD Women’s Studies (University of York)
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (University of Edinburgh)

Biography

I joined the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in August 2018. Prior to this, I taught at Cardiff University, York St John University, Bishop Grosseteste University, the University of York and the University of Edinburgh, where I also worked in academic development.

My doctoral research (completed in 2012) was undertaken at the University of York, where I was jointly supervised between the Centre for Women’s Studies and the Department of English and Related Literature.Ìý

Teaching

  • Popular Fiction before the Novel (UG)
  • The Use of Genre (UG) – module convenor
  • Cultures of Popular Literature (PG) – module co-convenor

Postgraduate supervision

I am keen to hear from prospective students interested in researching the following areas:

Popular romance studies, especially projects on diversity
Popular and genre fiction
Publishing
Migration and refugee fiction
Muslim women's genre writing
Cross-period and cross-disciplinary projects

Update September 2024: I am accepting new PhD students to begin no earlier than academic year 2025/26.

Find out more - our PhD English Literature  page has information about doctoral research at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.

Research

My research interests lie in popular fiction (especially romance). I am interested in genre fiction, publishing, women’s writing, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and migration.Ìý

I am currently working on a with Dr Jodi McAlister (Deakin University).Ìý

I have published research on , , , , , , , , , and migration fiction.Ìý

I have edited special issues on ,Ìý, and .

My first book,Ìý (Palgrave, 2016) is a comparative study of Orientalism in medieval and modern popular romance and compares the representation of erotic relationships across religious and cultural borders in late medieval Orientalist romance (1330-1450) and British and North American post 9/11 romantic fiction.

I was Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded Muslim Women's Popular Fiction research network (2021-2023).Ìý

I also have an interest in pedagogy and have published research on , , and .Ìý

Other activities

  • I am on the editorial board for the Journal of Popular Romance Studies and a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance, the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship and the Love Research Network.
  • I have been a reviewer for The Journal of Masculinity Studies, Routledge and Edinburgh University Press.
  • I have presented my research at many international conferences and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
  • I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Publications

Highlight publications

Burge, A 2020, . in J Kamblé, EM Selinger & H-M Teo (eds), The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction. Routledge, pp. 395-410.

Burge, A 2020 '' IRiS Working Paper Series, pp. 1-24. </Documents/college-social-sciences/social-policy/iris/2020/what-can-literature-tell-us-about-migration.pdf>

Burge, A 2018, '', Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 649-660.

Burge, A 2016, . The New Middle Ages (TNMA), Palgrave Macmillan.

Recent publications

Book

Burge, A & McAlister, J 2026, . 1 edn, Bloomsbury Academic. <>

Article

Burge, A & McAlister, J 2025, '', TEXT Journal of writing and writing courses.

Burge, A 2024, '', The Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

Burge, A, McAlister, J & Ireland, C 2024, '', Contemporary Women's Writing, vol. 17, no. 2, vpae002, pp. 137-155. ,

Burge, A 2022, '', Journal of Popular Romance Studies.

Burge, A 2022, '', Scottish Literary Review, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 1-19. <>

Burge, A & Kertz, L 2020, '', Medieval Feminist Forum, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 38-69. <>

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Burge, A 2023, . in L Lessard-Phillips, A Papoutsi, N Sigona & P Ziss (eds), Migration, Displacement and Diversity: The IRiS anthology. Oxford Publishing Services, Oxford, pp. 117-121.

Burge, A 2023, . in M Grobbelaar, E Reid Boyd & D Dudek (eds), Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It?. 1 edn, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 39-49.

Burge, A & Folie, S 2021, . in A Brooks (ed.), Routledge Companion to Romantic Love. 1st edn, Routledge Companions to Gender, Routledge.

Comment/debate

Burge, A 2024, '', Journal of Popular Romance Studies, vol. 13. <>

Data set/Database

Burge, A, , 2022, Data set/Database. <>

Editorial

Burge, A, Bonsall, J, Boharski, M, Hayes, L, Howarth, D & Wright, V 2020, '', Medieval Feminist Forum, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 5-17. <>

Burge, A 2020, '', Journal of Popular Romance Studies, vol. 9. <>

Review article

Burge, A & Robinson, R 2020, '', Journal of Popular Romance Studies, vol. 9. <>