(1987) A Comparative Analysis of Female Role Models in Selected Contemporary Teen Romances Educat.D., Auburn University

(2010) "Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen Master of Arts, DePaul University

(1996) The Librarian's Stereotyped Image in Romance Novels, 1980-1995: Has the Image Changed? Masters, Kent State University

(1996) The effects of romance in young adult fiction on pre-adolescent African-American females MA thesis, Michigan State University

(1997) Mapping Normalcy: Romance and the Postmodern Body MA thesis, University of Toronto