(2005) The Romance Novel of the 1930s and 1940s in Spain and Portugal: The Cases of Carmen de Icaza and Alice Ogando PhD, University of California, Irvine

(2009) Living to read romance: The transformative potential of interpretive practice in romance reading MA thesis, California State University, Fullerton

(2009) Excitement, adventure, indifference: Romance readers' perceptions of how romance reading impacts their sex lives Doctor of Education, Widener University

(1988) Female journeys: the place of Jane Eyre and "Mills and Boon" in the search for women's existential space MA thesis, University of Auckland

(1998) The modern Arabic novel: a literary and linguistic analysis of the genre of popular fiction, with special reference to translation from English PhD, Heriot-Watt

(2003) Thirty years of change: heroes, heroines, and the popular romance MA thesis, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut