Pylkkänen, Merita (2013) Didactic Fulfillment and the Popular Romance: Jude Deveraux’s The Mulberry Tree MA thesis, University of Eastern Finland Topic Jude Deveraux
Whyte, Tamara Lynn (2013) Shakespeare in Love: Appropriation of Shakespeare in Popular Romance Novels PhD, University of Alabama Topic Shakespeare
Elliott, Jack (2017) Whole genre sequencing Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 32.1:65–79 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqv034 Topic genre definitions Harlequin Mills & Boon authors linguistics
Elliott, Jack (2016) Vocabulary decay in category romance Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 31.2:321–332 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqu069 Topic linguistics Harlequin Mills & Boon authors Jane Austen
Diamond, Geneva (2015) "Medievalism and the Courtship Plot in Julie Garwood's Popular Romance Novels " The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre Topic Julie Garwood historical romance gender romantic suspense
Young, Helen (2015) The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre Amhurst, NY: Cambria Press