| Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna |
Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” |
2023 |
genre definitions, readers |
| Phumithammarat, Nanphatchaon |
The Cultural Politics of Chinese-Thai Identities in Ethnic Romance Novels by Female Authors |
2023 |
Thailand, race/ethnicity, China |
| Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Johnson-Hunt, Nancy |
Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| 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 |
| Zhang, Chunjie; Krimmer, Elisabeth |
Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections |
2023 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna |
Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” |
2023 |
genre definitions, readers |
| Bradford, Robin |
The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Romance |
2023 |
libraries/librarians |
| Garcia, Christina |
The Race of Publishing: The Troubling Whiteness in Publishing and the Forces Pushing Back |
2023 |
Publishing, race/ethnicity, readers, romance and, or as, activism |
| Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Johnson-Hunt, Nancy |
Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| 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 |
| Limond, Verity |
‘The door is open to everyone’: The public libraries of Gozo |
2023 |
libraries/librarians, Malta, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Grover, Mary |
Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955 |
2023 |
readers, social/economic class, history, UK, libraries/librarians, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Sophie Cole, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Heying, Sarah M. |
"Sealed With a Kiss on Your Artery": An Archive of Southern Lesbian Desire |
2023 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Allen Shockley, libraries/librarians, race/ethnicity |
| 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 |
| Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna |
Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” |
2023 |
genre definitions, readers |
| Roche, Emma |
Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction |
2023 |
Twilight, Fifty Shades, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, capitalism/business |
| 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 |
| McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne |
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines |
2023 |
Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext |
| Rashid, Hussein; Petersen, Kristian |
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture |
2023 |
|
| 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 |
| Morrison, Kevin A.; Rantala, Pälvi |
Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing |
2023 |
|
| Stobaugh, Rebecca |
Halfway-Sexual: Exploring Demisexuality in American Literature |
2023 |
sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Fifty Shades, Jack Byrne |
| 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 |
| Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna |
Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” |
2023 |
genre definitions, readers |
| Mulvey, Alexandra Hazel |
Gender and Sex Stereotypes in Sports Romance Fiction |
2023 |
sport, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Mariana Zapata, Tijan, Hannah Grace, Rachel Spangler, Kelly Quindlen, Katia Rose, food, drink, happy ending, family |
| 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 |
| McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne |
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines |
2023 |
Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext |
| Rashid, Hussein; Petersen, Kristian |
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture |
2023 |
|
| 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 |
| Morrison, Kevin A.; Rantala, Pälvi |
Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing |
2023 |
|
| Hutter, Verena |
Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity |
2023 |
Africa, Germany, history, historical romance, race/ethnicity, Patricia Mennen, Leah Bach, gender |
| 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 |
| Robinson, Rachel |
Reading and writing dogs in popular romance fiction |
2023 |
animals |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work |
2023 |
Publishing, authors, readers |
| 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 |
| McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne |
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines |
2023 |
Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
Nobody Puts Romance Fiction in the Corner: Public Librarians in New South Wales and Their Dalliance with Romance Fiction |
2023 |
libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Australia, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Carter, David |
The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel |
2023 |
|
| Phipps, Catherine |
Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 |
2023 |
history, Morocco, sheikh romance, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bacon, Simon |
The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire |
2024 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Farooqui, Javaria |
Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency |
2024 |
readers, Pakistan, historical romance |
| Sabo, Oana |
Translingualism 2.0 |
2024 |
France, linguistics |
| Kluger, Johanna |
"On Thursdays We Shoot": Guns and Gender Binaries in Regency Romance Novels |
2024 |
historical romance, gender, Tessa Dare, Julia Quinn |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hiergeist, Teresa; Schäfer, Stefanie |
Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture |
2024 |
feminism |
| Spencer, Lynda Gichanda |
“Walk like a chameleon”: Reflecting on my teaching journey at a South African university |
2024 |
teaching romance |
| 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 |
| Frankel, Valerie Estelle |
Adapting Bridgerton: Essays on the Netflix Show in Context |
2024 |
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 |
| Goyal, Yogita |
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature |
2024 |
|
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
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 |
| 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 |
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
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 |
| 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 |
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
2024 |
|
| Burge, Amy |
A decolonised alpha hero? Negotiating masculinities in Nigerian romance novels |
2024 |
Nigeria, Africa, gender |
| Markova, M. V. |
Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction. |
2024 |
Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance |
| Hennessey, John L. |
History and Speculative Fiction |
2024 |
|
| 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 |
| Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna |
Popular Romance and Literary Undergrounds |
2024 |
African American romance |