(2005) Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents PhD, McMaster University

(2005) The Parody of Romance MA thesis, University of Texas at Arlington

(2009) The Recession and Its Effect on the Romance Genre Master of Science in Publishing, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences, Pace University

(2008) Nora Roberts: descendant of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë? MA thesis, Tennessee Technological University

(1986) Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984 PhD, University of Southern California