(2021) “Romance Itself is Political”: The Power of the Popular Romance Novel and its Attempts at Feminism Honors Thesis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Sandra Brown

J. R. Ward

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Michelson, Anna

(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

Topic

sociology

romance and, or as, activism

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

United States of America

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2021) "African American romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 229-251 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-10

Topic

African American romance

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

race/ethnicity

Publishing

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Alyssa Cole

Bell, Carole V.

(2022) "I'm Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Solidarity, Black World-Building, and Black Love " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 29-64

Topic

United States of America

race/ethnicity

African American romance

romance and, or as, activism

social/economic class

(2022) "How a Black Author Found Her Romance History " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 95-120

Topic

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

teaching romance

race/ethnicity

African American romance

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2022) Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance : International Association for the Study of Popular Romance

Topic

African American romance

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

Rochelle Alers

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Jackson, Nicole M.

(2022) "Finding Queer Black Women in Romance. Finding Bits and Pieces of Me. " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 65-77

Topic

Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

African American romance

(2022) Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

African American romance

United States of America

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

happy ending

Hendricks, Margo

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2022) Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance : International Association for the Study of Popular Romance

Topic

African American romance

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

Rochelle Alers

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Pierini, Francesca

(2022) Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

(2022) "“Place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture”: The Recasting of Jane Eyre " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 97-117

Topic

(2023) Who Says Women Can’t Love and Empower?: How Representations of Women Have Progressed in Medical Romance Fiction Honors Thesis, Eastern Kentucky University

Topic

medical romance

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

(2024) The Genre of Rape: Women’s Popular Literature and Contemporary Representations of Sexual Violence PhD, University of Michigan

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Alyssa Cole