Thompson, Jennifer K. (2010) Romance in the Stacks: The Prevalence of Romance Fiction in Academic Libraries M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Topic libraries/librarians
Folie, Sandra (2020) "The Ethnic Labelling of a Genre Gone Global: A Distant Comparison of African-American and African Chick Lit " Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer: The Many Languages of Comparative Literature 313–326 DOI:10.1515/9783110641998-026 Topic chick lit Africa South Africa Kenya race/ethnicity
Bachleitner, Norbert (2020) Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer: The Many Languages of Comparative Literature Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Lin, Pei-yin Kim, Su Yun (2019) East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan Topic Taiwan Korea Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Chaplin, Sue (2019) ‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance Gothic Studies 21.1:10-27 DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2019.0004 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Twilight J. R. Ward Lara Adrian family gender sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors