Christine Larson

Christine Larson is an associate professor of journalism. She studies the impact of technology on the book industry, journalism and other media. Her research has taken behind the scenes in newsrooms, Silicon Valley and deep into the world of romance writers, publishers and readers.  

 Larson spent 15 years as a journalist. Her award-winning articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, Glamour, Cosmopolitan and many other publications. She’s worked on staff at major magazines and has co-written three trade books on women and the workplace. She was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford. As a senior facilitator with The OpEd Project, she works to promote more diverse voices in opinion media and public discourse.    

 Larson’s scholarly work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Communication, New Media and Society, and Information, Communication and Society. Her most recent book, Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success (Princeton, 2024) was covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post and National Public Radio.  

 Larson holds a PhD in Communication from Stanford University and a BA in English from Princeton University.