Episode 6- Author Piper Huguley

Black Romance Has A History

This week’s guest is Piper G. Huguley. Piper is a professor of literature at Clark University Atlanta in addition to being an author of historical romance and historical fiction. Most recently she is the author of American Daughters. We invited Piper for her unique perspective as both a scholar of 19th and 20th century African American literature as well as an author who has tried to carry on the legacy of The Summer of Black Love. We talk about her experiences as a historical romance author, what it was like to be in the generation after Beverly Jenkins, the dominance of Regency historicals, and her transition into biographical historical fiction projects.

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Steve Ammidown

Website: https://romancehistory.com/about/

Socials

IG: @romancehistorian

Bluesky: @stegan.bsky.social

Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson

Websites:

https://www.katrinajacksonauthor.com

https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/history/faculty-and-staff/nicole-jackson.html

Socials

IG: @katjacksonbooks

Mentioned in this Episode

Legendary historical romance author LaVyrle Spencer

The work of Beverly Jenkins

The novella collections: The Brightest Day: A Juneteenth Historical Romance Anthology and Daughters of A Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology

The 19th century work of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Pauline Hopkins

The Black Love Matters collection, including essays by Beverly Jenkins, Nicole Jackson, and Piper Huguley

Further Reading/Listening

Piper Huguley discusses American Daughters at Gwinnett County Public Library

Piper Huguley on the Black Romance Podcast

Piper Huguley, “Her Bodyguard: Sandra Kitt’s The Color of Love as a foundational text for BWWM romance”, Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2022. https://www.jprstudies.org/2022/05/her-bodyguard-sandra-kitts-the-color-of-love-as-a-foundational-text-for-bwwm-romance/

Rita B. Dandridge, “The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with Beverly Jenkins”, Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2010. https://www.jprstudies.org/2010/08/interview-beverly-jenkins-by-rita-b-dandridge/

Rita B. Dandridge, Black Women’s Activism: Reading African American Women’s Historical Romances, Peter Lang, Inc., 2004. https://www.amazon.com/Black-Womens-Activism-Historical-African-American/dp/0820467340