(1973)
Romantic love, ecstasy, and deprivation
Master of Arts,
The University of British Columbia
religion/spirituality
(1974)
The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-Literature of Love
London:
Hodder and Stoughton
Topic
(1979)
Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different
Radical History Review
20:141-161
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-1979-20-141
(1981)
Installments of the Heart: Text Delimitation in Periodical Narrative and Its Consequences
Sub-Stance
10/11:56-65
DOI: 10.2307/3684531
(1985)
The Rhetoric of Romance: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Barbara Cartland Novels
Southern Speech Communication Journal
51.1:24-48
DOI: 10.1080/10417948509372645
(1990)
The Reverend Idol and Other Parsonage Secrets: Women Write Romances about Ministers, 1880-1950
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
6.1:87-103
(1991)
The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century
Hemel Hempstead:
Harvester Wheatsheaf
Topic
(1991)
Les femmes dans le roman sentimental moderne
L'Homme et la société
99-100:115-125
DOI: 10.3406/homso.1991.2542
(1992)
Religion and Sexuality in American Literature
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(1997)
Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance
MELUS
22.2:61-74
DOI: 10.2307/468135
(1999)
Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
Topic
(2000)
Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels
PhD,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(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)
Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu
Research in African Literatures
33.2:119-136
(2003)
Higher Love: What Women Gain from Christian Romance Novels
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
4:
DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.4.1.001
(2003)
Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush
Hecate
29.1:115-131
(2003)
Hausa Women Writers Confronting the Traditional Status of Women in Modern Islamic Society: Feminist Thought in Nigerian Popular Fiction
Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature
22.2:387-408
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(2003)
Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa
African Studies Review
46.1:137-153
DOI: 10.2307/1514984
(2005)
Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'
Popular Culture Review
16.1:147-155
(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)
The Parody of Romance
MA thesis,
University of Texas at Arlington
(2005)
La novela rosa de ambientación vasca e ideología franquista durante la Guerra Civil española
Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos
50.1:79-103
(2005)
Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'
Popular Culture Review
16.1:147-155
(2005)
Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918
Oxford:
Clarendon Press
(2006)
Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
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)
Popular fiction in postwar Spain: the soothing, subversive novela rosa
Journal of Romance Studies
8.2:37-57
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(2008)
La transmisión de los valores femeninos a través de la lectura (1900-1939)
Salina. Revista de Lletres
22:153-160
(2008)
La transmisión de los valores femeninos a través de la lectura (1900-1939)
Salina. Revista de Lletres
22:153-160
(2009)
La censure du roman sentimental en France ou le refoulement des mauvais genres
Belphégor
8.2:
(2009)
“Love in the Clouds”: Barbara Cartland’s Religious Romances
The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
21.2:
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(2010)
Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity
Stanford, California:
Stanford University Press
(2010)
Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
1.1:
(2010)
“A Whisper of Satin”: The Infant Dress Leitmotif
The Journal of Mennonite Writing (CMW)
2.4:
(2011)
Blood Ties: The Vampire Lover in the Popular Romance
The Journal of American Culture
34.2:141-148
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(2011)
Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival
Recherches féministes
24.1:61–76
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(2011)
Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances
American Quarterly
63.4:895-928
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(2011)
Virtuous Vampires and Voluptuous Vamps: Romance Conventions Reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer’s ‘‘Twilight’’ Series
Children's Literature in Education
42.2:165-179
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(2011)
Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival
Recherches féministes
24.1:61–76
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(2012)
Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia: A textual analysis of Ayat ayat cinta by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy and Syahadat cinta by Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy
Indonesia and the Malay World
40.116:59-73
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(2012)
German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917
Columbus:
Ohio State University Press
Topic
(2012)
Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels
Mennonite Quarterly Review
86.4:409-435
(2013)
“Who the devil wrote that?”: Intertextuality and Authorial Reputation in Georgette Heyer’s Venetia
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.2:
(2013)
Loving in Plain Sight: Amish Romance Novels as Evangelical Gothic
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies
1.2:1-16
DOI: 10.18061/1811/57706
(2013)
Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels
Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Topic
(2014)
Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege
The Journal of Popular Culture
47.1:153-173
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(2014)
Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular
Textual Practice
28.1:9-33
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(2014)
The Conflict of Love and Islam: The Main Ingredients in the Popular Islamic Novels of Malaysia
South East Asia Research
22.3:417-433
DOI: 10.5367/sear.2014.0222
(2014)
Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism
European Journal of Science and Theology
10.1:99-110
(2015)
Review: When Mercy Rains
Mennonite Life
69:
(2015)
Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions
PhD,
Cardiff University
(2015)
An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
5.1:
(2016)
Muslim Love American Style: Islamic-American Hybrid Culture and Native-Born American Black Muslim Romance
MA thesis,
SUNY Empire State College
(2016)
Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction
Evanston, Illinois:
Northwestern University Press
(2016)
Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori
Neohelicon
43.2:559–576
DOI: 10.1007/s11059-016-0346-9
(2016)
Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture
Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Press
(2016)
Fictions of Belief: Reading Evangelical Novels in A Secular Age
PhD,
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
(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)
Pour une typologie de la marginalité dans les romans de Delly: la fonction de la femme
L'Ull crític
21-22:137-152
DOI: 10.21001/luc.21.22.09
(2018)
Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit
Journal of Commonwealth Literature
53.2:284-300
DOI: 10.1177/0021989416686156
(2018)
Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950)
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
19.3:339-364
DOI: 10.1080/14636204.2018.1493891
(2018)
The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57)
Women: A Cultural Review
29.2:188-215
DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2018.1447040
(2018)
The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57)
Women: A Cultural Review
29.2:188-215
DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2018.1447040
(2019)
Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
8:
(2019)
Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure »
COnTEXTES
23:
DOI: 10.4000/contextes.7903
(2019)
Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure »
COnTEXTES
23:
DOI: 10.4000/contextes.7903
(2020)
Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction
Christianity & Literature
69.1:73-90
(2020)
Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction
Online:
Topic
(2021)
American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation
Valencia:
Universitat de València
(2021)
Reading the Digital Muslim Romance
CyberOrient
15.1:146-171
(2021)
“Redha tu Ikhlas”: The Social–Textual Significance of Islamic Virtue in Malay Forced Marriage Narratives
Religions
12.5 (310):
DOI: 10.3390/rel12050310
(2021)
The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999
:
Type Punch Matrix
Topic
(2021)
Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith
Grand Rapids, Michigan:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
(2022)
Romancing the New Evangelical Woman
Master of Arts,
Baylor University
(2023)
Diversity Sells: Uzma Jalaluddin’s Muslim Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
English Studies
104.3:539-558
DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2023.2180896
(2024)
Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour
:
Baraka
Topic
(2024)
Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour
:
Baraka
Topic