(1996) Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

(1986) Raised on romance: a cultural study of romance fiction MA thesis, University of Virginia

(1986) Functioning fictions: the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels PhD, University of Iowa

(2002) Revising Captivity Narratives PhD, University of Florida

(2009) Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad Masters, University of Iceland