Amorós, Andrés (1968) Sociología de una novela rosa Madrid: Taurus Topic Spain Corín Tellado sociology
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2016) Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research 4.2:62-70 Topic Spain Publishing Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Neville, Lucy (2018) Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Topic pornography m/m romance sex/sexuality LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Lessard, Victoria (2017) Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992) MA thesis, McGill University Topic Cassie Edwards Native American romance paratext race/ethnicity historical romance
González Cruz, María Isabel (2017) Exploring the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching in a written corpus Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 30:331-355 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2017.30.12 Topic languages Spain Harlequin Mills & Boon linguistics
Achieng’, Okang’a Nancy (2017) A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika MA thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Topic Sarah Ladipo Manyika Nigeria trash/literary and or intellectual quality Africa race/ethnicity gender