Romance Scholarship DB

Smith, Josefine

Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor

(2025) Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction : Rowman & Littlefield

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Smith, Josefine

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Datta, Sreepurna

(2025) ""A holiday that could be whatever anyone wanted it to be": The Indian American Holiday Season in Sonya Lalli's A Holly Jolly Diwali " Under the Mistletoe: Essays on Holiday Romance in Popular Culture

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Datta, Sreepurna

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(2025) Under the Mistletoe: Essays on Holiday Romance in Popular Culture : McFarland

Faber, Liz W.

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Johnson, Jacqueline Elizabeth

(2024) Labors of Love: Black Women, Cultural Production, and the Romance Genre PhD, University of Southern California

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Rebekah Weatherspoon

Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush

African American romance

capitalism/business

wealth/prosperity

Johnson, Jacqueline Elizabeth

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Imperitura, Lorenzo

(2024) The Forgotten Queer Utopia Master’s thesis, The Arctic University of Norway

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LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

science fiction/futuristic romance

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Imperitura, Lorenzo

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