Helen Hoang

(2020) Houses of Genre Fiction: The Shared Estrangement of Postwar American Culture PhD, Brandeis University

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

social/economic class

(2020) Rethinking romance: An argument for adding the genre to the popular shelf The Journal of Academic Librarianship 46.2: DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2019.102100

Topic

libraries/librarians

Jasmine Guillory

Uzma Jalaluddin

(2020) Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

(2022) "The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange” World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 150-164

Topic

(2023) "Romantic Love across Borders: Marriage Migration in Popular Romance Fiction " Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? 39-49 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-26055-1_4

Topic

Brigitte Bautista

United States of America

metaphor/symbolism

(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

Topic

Brigitte Bautista

United States of America

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Miclea, Adelina-Cerasela

(2024) The Scientification of Love: A Cognitive Literary Approach to Romance Novels PhD, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara

Topic

Casey McQuiston