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After graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. from Oxford University, a Ph.D. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. In her professorial guise, she's written a New York Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from women's magazines such as More to writers' journals such as the Romance Writers' Report.
Eloisa...on her double life: When I rip off my power suit, whether it's academic or romantic, underneath is the rather tired, chocolate-stained sweatshirt of a mom. Just as I use Shakespeare in my romances, I almost always employ my experiences as a mother. When I wrote about a miscarriage in Midnight Pleasures, I used my own fears of premature birth; when the little girl in Fool For Love threw up and threw up, I described my own daughter, who had that unsavory habit for well over her first year of life. So I'm a writer, a professor, a mother - and a wife. My husband Alessandro is Italian, born in Florence. We spend the lazy summer months with his mother and sister in Italy. It always strikes me as a huge irony that as a romance writer I find myself married to a knight, a cavaliere, as you say in Italian. One more thing...I'm a friend. I have girlfriends who are writers and girlfriends who are Shakespeare professors. And I have girlfriends who are romance readers. In fact, we have something of a community going on my website. Please stop by and join the conversation on my readers' pages.
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Notes from Eloisa:
"Do you happen to live around Greenville, North Carolina? I’ll be giving a talk on February 18th about my “double life” as a professor and romance writer. It’s free and open to the public and I think there’s a book signing to follow. No matter what, if you bring your books, I’m happy to sign them. Info here."
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» Here is a link to the page at the World Talk Radio website from which anyone can listen to yesterday's interviews: with Eloisa, Sari Robins, Victoria Alexander, Cathy Maxwell, and Teresa Medeiros. » National Public Radio's All Things Considered Weekend Edition ran a lovely interview with Eloisa: listen to it yourself! » Eloisa Archived. Hear past radio spots. Eloisa on NPR, from The Next Big Thing, entitled: From Bards to Bodices. Also, for direct download: the Fordham radio interview.
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