Leetsch, Jennifer (2021) Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing: Making Love, Making Worlds Cham: Palgrave Macmillan Topic Chimamanda Adichie Africa Nigeria
Saxena, Vandana (2022) Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature New York: Routledge Topic Malaysia Noel Barber
Long, Eileen M. (2021) Modern Love: Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Romance Novel Master's Thesis, Purdue University Topic feminism Jennifer Crusie Jane Austen authors Publishing
Izharuddin, Alicia (2021) Reading the Digital Muslim Romance CyberOrient 15.1:146-171 Topic Muslim romance Malaysia readers religion/spirituality Islam gender
Zibrak, Arielle (2021) Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures New York: New York University Press Topic readers sex/sexuality historical romance gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Susan Warner E. D. E. N. Southworth Rosemary Rogers Jill Marie Landis fairytales/folktales feminism
Kołodziej, Gaja (2021) Unforgettably in love: uses of the amnesia trope in contemporary romance Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing, Massey University Topic contemporary romance romantic suspense health/medical love