| Davisson, Amber; Hunting, Kyra |
From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires |
2023 |
Julia Quinn, film/movies, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, pornography, race/ethnicity |
| Derbyshire, Valerie Grace |
“Do you think I haven’t paid for what I did?”: Rape in the Mills & Boon Romantic Novels of Penny Jordan |
2023 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, history, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Carter, David |
The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel |
2023 |
|
| Morden, Christina |
Innovations in Romance Novel Distribution at Harlequin, Sourcebooks, and Raincoast Books |
2023 |
Publishing, Canada, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi |
Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance |
2023 |
Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra |
| Prayuana, Ratu; De Ferras, Rayhan Romombe; Ramadhan, Fitra Wahyu |
The Rules of Romance Manifested in the Textual Structure of the Novel Fireside |
2023 |
Susan Wiggs |
| Miclea, Adelina |
Colleen Hoover’s Formulas for Best-Sellers as Seen in Reminders of Him and it Ends with Us |
2023 |
Colleen Hoover, United States of America |
| Burge, Amy |
Romantic Love across Borders: Marriage Migration in Popular Romance Fiction |
2023 |
Helen Hoang, Brigitte Bautista, United States of America, Philippines, Vietnam, marriage, metaphor/symbolism |
| Henderson, Alex |
Genre-savvy Protagonists in Queer YA Rom-coms |
2023 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, rom-com romance, YA/teenage romance, metafiction, Emery Lee, Alice Oseman |
| Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra |
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? |
2023 |
|
| Petrović, Janja |
Breaking the stereotype – romance novel today |
2023 |
genre definitions, gender, Mariana Zapata, Abby Jimenez, Christina Lauren, Emily Henry, Colleen Hoover |
| Abdullah-Poulos, Layla |
Sisters, Skanks, and Jezebels: American Muslim Fiction and the Other Woman |
2023 |
United States of America, Islam, religion/spirituality, African American romance |
| Davisson, Amber; Hunting, Kyra |
From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires |
2023 |
Julia Quinn, film/movies, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, pornography, race/ethnicity |
| Arnold-Forster, Agnes |
Cold, Hard Steel: The Myth of the Modern Surgeon |
2023 |
health/medical, Elizabeth Gilzean, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Prayuana, Ratu; De Ferras, Rayhan Romombe; Ramadhan, Fitra Wahyu |
The Rules of Romance Manifested in the Textual Structure of the Novel Fireside |
2023 |
Susan Wiggs |
| Markasović, Valentina |
Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Holly Black’s The Folk of the Air Trilogy |
2023 |
Holly Black, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, gender |
| Rattanamathuwong, Bancha |
Time Is on Our Side?: Homo Economicus in Time-Travel Romance |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, Jude Deveraux, Rompaeng, Thomyantri, Thailand, Audrey Niffenegger |
| Garton, Stephen |
Return Fantasies: Martial Masculinity, Misogyny and Homosocial Bonding in the Aftermath of Second World War |
2023 |
war/armed forces, Australia, history, gender, romances in magazines and newspapers, sex/sexuality |
| Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra |
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? |
2023 |
|
| Horgheim, Celina |
From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone |
2023 |
myth, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, Rachel Alexander, Ophelia Silk, feminism |
| Limond, Verity |
‘The door is open to everyone’: The public libraries of Gozo |
2023 |
libraries/librarians, Malta, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Roach, David |
A Very British Affair – The Best of Classic Romance Comics |
2023 |
comics/manga, UK |
| Ripoll Fonollar, Mariana |
Wording deeds: the figure of the suffragette in contemporary british fiction |
2023 |
feminism, historical romance, Katie MacAlister, Courtney Milan, Evie Dunmore |
| Prayuana, Ratu; De Ferras, Rayhan Romombe; Ramadhan, Fitra Wahyu |
The Rules of Romance Manifested in the Textual Structure of the Novel Fireside |
2023 |
Susan Wiggs |
| Larson, Christine; Carter, Ashley |
Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing |
2023 |
Publishing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation |
2023 |
gender, sex/sexuality, work, national identity, race/ethnicity, Susan Napier, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Karen Marie Moning, Lisa Kleypas, Beverly Jenkins, Linda Howard, Kresley Cole, Joanna Bourne, Sherry Thomas, Alyssa Cole, metafiction, social/economic class, community, emotions |
| Phipps, Catherine |
‘The Machine for Showing Desire’: Desert Romance Fiction and Knowing Sexual Desire |
2023 |
sheikh romance, history, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, E. M. Hull, Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel |
| Ghosh, Srijani |
Diversity Sells: Uzma Jalaluddin’s Muslim Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice |
2023 |
Uzma Jalaluddin, Islam, religion/spirituality, Jane Austen, race/ethnicity, Canada, marriage |
| Yeung, Jessica Siu-yin |
Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature and Shih Shu-Ching’s Hong Kong Stories |
2023 |
romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Taiwan, China |
| Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra |
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? |
2023 |
|
| Vermeer, Lina |
The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men’s Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction’s Literary and Social Contexts |
2023 |
fanfiction, genre definitions, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, emotions, love, pornography, readers, Canada, sport |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and Now |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Adriana Herrera, Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, Talia Hibbert, African American romance, work, romance and, or as, activism |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Publishing, Vivian Stephens, United States of America, social/economic class, work, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Valerie Flournoy, history, sex/sexuality, Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill |
| Larson, Christine; Carter, Ashley |
Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing |
2023 |
Publishing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Love Is Not Enough: Australian Romantic Fiction from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century |
2023 |
Australia, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Rosa Praed, Marie Bjelke Petersen, marriage, love, work |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| Reed, Eleanor |
Woman's Weekly and Lower-Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958: Making Homemakers |
2023 |
romances in magazines and newspapers, UK, readers, social/economic class |
| van Hattum, Fatima Y. |
Orientalist Public Pedagogy: Visual Representation of Muslims in Pop Culture and Desert Romance Novels |
2023 |
sheikh romance, paratext, Islam, race/ethnicity |
| Ali, Kecia |
The End of the World as We Know It: Climate Catastrophe in Nalini Singh's Paranormal Romance Fiction |
2023 |
Nalini Singh, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Golubov, Nattie |
Female Warriors, Social Injustice and the Transformational Force of Anger in Jaye Wells' Sabina Kane Series |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, feminism, emotions, Jaye Wells, gender, settings |
| Neely, Diana |
Who Says Women Can’t Love and Empower?: How Representations of Women Have Progressed in Medical Romance Fiction |
2023 |
medical romance, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, work, Marjorie Norrell, Alyssa Cole, Ali Hazelwood |
| Sparks, Tabitha |
Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance |
2023 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), metafiction, authors, Annie S. Swan, Sarah Doudney, Emily Jolly, Adeline Sergeant |
| Warnaar, Karin |
Dresses and Drapery: The Material Essie Summers |
2023 |
Essie Summers, fashion/clothing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, New Zealand |
| Markova, M. V. |
Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction. |
2024 |
Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance |
| Hiergeist, Teresa; Schäfer, Stefanie |
Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture |
2024 |
feminism |
| Green, Steff |
More schlongs, more cats |
2024 |
family, Steffanie Holmes, pen name of Steff Green, happy ending |
| Allen, Amanda K. |
Ruling the Court: Reflections on Midcentury Junior Novel Romances |
2024 |
YA/teenage romance |
| Johnson, Jacqueline E. |
Lusting out loud: racialized aurality, podcast intimacy, and the uses of thirst |
2024 |
race/ethnicity, happy ending, sex/sexuality |
| Hiergeist, Teresa; Schäfer, Stefanie |
Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture |
2024 |
feminism |
| Frankel, Valerie Estelle |
Adapting Bridgerton: Essays on the Netflix Show in Context |
2024 |
Julia Quinn |
| Goyal, Yogita |
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature |
2024 |
|
| Pérez-Fernández, Irene |
Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold |
2024 |
Bolu Babalola, race/ethnicity, UK, myth |
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
2024 |
|
| Sabo, Oana |
Translingualism 2.0 |
2024 |
France, linguistics |
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
2024 |
|
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
2024 |
|
| Hennessey, John L. |
History and Speculative Fiction |
2024 |
|
| Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna |
Popular Romance and Literary Undergrounds |
2024 |
African American romance |
| Parisot, Eric |
Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium |
2024 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Jane Austen, Colleen Gleason, Twilight, Regina Jeffers, Amanda Grange, fanfiction |
| Spencer, Lynda Gichanda |
“Walk like a chameleon”: Reflecting on my teaching journey at a South African university |
2024 |
teaching romance |
| Larson, Christine |
Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success |
2024 |
authors, Publishing, United States of America, race/ethnicity, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Kluger, Johanna |
Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels |
2024 |
United States of America, gender, sex/sexuality, Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, romance and, or as, activism |
| Bacon, Simon |
The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire |
2024 |
|
| Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte |
“Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster |
2024 |
bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz |
| Arvanitaki, Eirini |
Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance |
2024 |
love |
| Posti, Piia K |
‘I Get to Exist as a Black Person in the World’: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen |
2024 |
race/ethnicity, history, historical romance, Julia Quinn |
| Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte |
“Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster |
2024 |
bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz |
| Farooqui, Javaria |
Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency |
2024 |
readers, Pakistan, historical romance |
| Kluger, Johanna |
"On Thursdays We Shoot": Guns and Gender Binaries in Regency Romance Novels |
2024 |
historical romance, gender, Tessa Dare, Julia Quinn |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Feeling Judged: Reflections on Pornography and Romance from a Minotaur Milking Farm |
2024 |
pornography, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, emotions, C. M. Nascosta, metafiction, family |
| Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte |
“Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster |
2024 |
bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz |
| Tanner, David |
Riding The Tosh Horse: Ethel M. Dell, A Written Life |
2024 |
Ethel M. Dell, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Reese, Tracy H.Z. |
Beyond the Pale: Genre, Race, and Intersectional Feminist Tensions in Bridgerton |
2024 |
Julia Quinn, race/ethnicity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Kies, Bridget |
Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World |
2024 |
marriage, happy ending, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, film/movies, Alexis Hall |
| Burge, Amy |
A decolonised alpha hero? Negotiating masculinities in Nigerian romance novels |
2024 |
Nigeria, Africa, gender |