(1997) Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India PhD, University of Iowa

(1986) 'Reine ou esclave .... ': conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France PhD, University of London, Birkbeck

(1990) Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women PhD, University of Liverpool

(1995) The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947 PhD, University of Lancaster

(2015) In search of feminist romance in Australian 'Chick Lit' PhD, Murdoch University