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Beautiful and Damned: The Sexual Woman in Gothic Fiction
Journal of Popular Culture
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United States of America
(1981)
Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association
New York:
The Council on Interracial Books for Children
Topic
(1981)
Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide
Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press
Topic
(1981)
The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest
American Quarterly
33.2:140-162
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(1982)
"Preface
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(1982)
The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I
Bowling Green, Ohio:
Bowling Green State University Popular Press
(1983)
The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition
Studies in Popular Culture
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(1984)
Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction
Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press
Topic
(1985)
Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture
Poetics
14.1-2:69-93
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(1987)
The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity
Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press
(1988)
Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s Category Romances
New York:
Greenwood Press
(1990)
Becoming a Woman Through Romance
London:
Routledge
(1990)
The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States
New York:
Routledge
(1991)
The Contemporary Indian Romance: A Review Essay
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
15.4:97-101
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(1992)
Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's The Sheik
Women's Studies
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(1994)
Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance
Journal of Popular Culture
27.4:43-56
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(1994)
Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties
Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press
Topic
(1997)
An Analysis to Determine if Popular Romance Novels, Read by Today’s High School Students, Reflect the Characteristics and Roles of Women in Current Society
M.S. in Education with Emphasis in Library Science,
University of Wyoming
(1997)
Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:195-213
(1997)
Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West
Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association
6:15-30
(1997)
Paradoxa Interview with Janet Dailey
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:214-218
(1997)
Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance
MELUS
22.2:61-74
DOI: 10.2307/468135
(1999)
North American Romance Writers
Lanham, Maryland:
Scarecrow Press
Topic
(1999)
American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance
Journal of American Studies of Turkey
9:71-82
(1999)
North American Romance Writers
Lanham, Maryland:
Scarecrow Press
Topic
(2000)
Shadows and Silhouettes: The Racial Politics of Category Romance
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
5.13-14:324-343
(2000)
Romancing the World: Harlequin Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia
Studies in Popular Culture
23.1:1-10
(2000)
Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels
PhD,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(2001)
"Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?": Reading Interracial Romance in Contemporary Asian American Young Adult Fiction
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory
12.3:313–334
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(2002)
The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right
Journal of Popular Culture
35.4:75-87
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.2002.3504_75.x
(2002)
Revising Captivity Narratives
PhD,
University of Florida
(2004)
Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances
New York:
Peter Lang
(2005)
Cowboys and Schoolteachers: Gender in Romance Novels, Secular and Christian
Sociological Perspectives
48.4:461-479
DOI: 10.1525/sop.2005.48.4.461
(2005)
Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance
PhD,
University of Toronto
Topic
(2006)
Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction
Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press
(2007)
Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today
Westport, Connecticut:
Praeger Publishers
(2008)
Romance novels in American public libraries: A study of collection development practices
Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services
32.2:59-67
DOI: 10.1016/j.lcats.2008.08.014
(2008)
Romance novels in American public libraries: A study of collection development practices
Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services
32.2:59-67
DOI: 10.1016/j.lcats.2008.08.014
(2008)
A genre of our own: the cultural work of women's popular romance fiction
PhD,
Arkansas State University
Topic
(2008)
Inverting the Southern Belle: Romance Writers Redefine Gender Myths
Journal of Popular Culture
41.1:37-55
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2008.00491.x
(2008)
Romance novels in American public libraries: A study of collection development practices
Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services
32.2:59-67
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(2008)
Romance novels in American public libraries: A study of collection development practices
Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services
32.2:59-67
DOI: 10.1016/j.lcats.2008.08.014
(2009)
The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own
Lewiston:
Edwin Mellen Press
(2010)
“The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
35.4:993-1017
DOI: 10.1086/651044
(2010)
« Tout un monde d’évasion » : adapter les romans sentimentaux pour un lectorat français
Meta
55.4:732–751
DOI: 10.7202/045688ar
(2010)
Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
1.1:
(2011)
'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954
Forum for World Literature Studies
3.1:118-128
(2011)
Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances
American Quarterly
63.4:895-928
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2011.0061
(2011)
Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
2.1:
(2012)
Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism?
MA thesis,
Dartmouth College
(2012)
German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917
Columbus:
Ohio State University Press
Topic
(2012)
Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels
Austin, Texas:
University of Texas Press
(2013)
She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954
The Journal of American Culture
36.1:16-24
DOI: 10.1111/jacc.12009
(2013)
Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels
Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Topic
(2014)
Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965
Journal of Lesbian Studies
18.4:372-392
DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2014.901846
(2015)
Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century
Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press
(2015)
Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
5.1:
(2015)
Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century
PhD,
Bowling Green State University
(2015)
An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror
New York:
New York University Press
(2015)
An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
5.1:
(2016)
Fictions of Belief: Reading Evangelical Novels in A Secular Age
PhD,
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
(2016)
Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction
Tirril, Penrith:
Humanities-Ebooks
Topic
(2017)
Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in Suzanne Brockmann’s Into the Night and Gone Too Far
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
6:
(2018)
The Stable Muslim Love Triangle - Triangular Desire in African American Muslim Romance Fiction
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
7:
(2018)
Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant
Journal of Literature and Art Studies
8.10:1459-1474
DOI: 10.17265/2159-5836/2018.10.004
(2018)
The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity
University of Toronto Quarterly
87.1:196-213
DOI: 10.3138/utq.87.1.196
(2019)
The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance
Lanham, Maryland:
Lexington
(2019)
Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
8:
(2020)
Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction
Christianity & Literature
69.1:73-90
(2020)
“I’m a Nurse, Not a Woman”: The Historical Significance of the UWM Nurse Romance Novel Collection
Master of Arts,
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Topic
(2020)
Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
DOI: 10.70138/RVXO4126
Topic
(2021)
White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey
Sexuality & Culture
25:852–870
DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3
(2021)
American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation
Valencia:
Universitat de València
(2021)
Novel Approaches to Lesbian History
Cham, Switzerland:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2021)
The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere
American Journal of Cultural Sociology
9:177–210
DOI: 10.1057/s41290-020-00126-7
(2021)
White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey
Sexuality & Culture
25:852–870
DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3
(2021)
Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith
Grand Rapids, Michigan:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
(2021)
White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey
Sexuality & Culture
25:852–870
DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3
(2022)
Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
DOI: 10.70138/ZFKI9916
(2022)
Romancing the New Evangelical Woman
Master of Arts,
Baylor University
(2022)
Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
DOI: 10.70138/DZPL7751
(2022)
Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
DOI: 10.70138/ZYOB2141
(2022)
Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
DOI: 10.70138/VVGT3522
(2023)
The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s
The Journal of American Culture
46.3:252-265
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13488
Topic
(2023)
Colleen Hoover’s Formulas for Best-Sellers as Seen in Reminders of Him and it Ends with Us
Romanian Journal of English Studies
20.1:72-79
DOI: 10.2478/rjes-2023-0008
(2024)
“Condoms Break. Birth Control Fails.” Heroes in the Procreative Realm and Jessica Scott’s “Anything for You”
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
13:
DOI: 10.70138/AQLE2548
(2024)
Courting Tragedy: Romance and the Liberal Redemption of Japanese American Mass Incarceration
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
13:
DOI: 10.70138/YEVW1299
(2024)
Marriage migration, intimacy and genre in Helen Hoang’s The Bride Test (2019) and Brigitte Bautista’s You, Me, U.S. (2019)
Literature, Critique, and Empire Today
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
DOI: 10.1177/30333962241267810
(2024)
Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels
Neohelicon
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
DOI: 10.1007/s11059-024-00731-2
(2024)
Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success
:
Princeton University Press