Roach, Catherine M. (2024) Fantasy and Desire: From my Mother’s Stack of Trashy Novels to an Experiment in Writing at Field’s Edge Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/VAWK7743 Topic romance scholarship
Barta, Orsolya (2024) Surprise Babies, Bad Mothers & Happily Ever Afters: Pregnancy Narratives and the Concept of Motherhood In Eight Contemporary Romance Novels Masters thesis, University of Uppsala Topic family sex/sexuality health/medical
Ramstad, Tessa (2024) Tall, Dark, and Ideal: #Bookboyfriends in six contemporary romance novels Masters thesis, University of Uppsala Topic Elle Kennedy Colleen Hoover Krista and Becca Ritchie Ali Hazelwood Ana Huang readers gender sex/sexuality
Cuthbert van der Veer, Kate (2023) Cover story: developing methodologies for the analysis of book titles and book covers PhD, University of Queensland Topic paratext Australia rural romance settings
Austin, Allan W. (2024) Courting Tragedy: Romance and the Liberal Redemption of Japanese American Mass Incarceration Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/YEVW1299 Topic United States of America history historical romance race/ethnicity Japan Danielle Steel
Teo, Hsu-Ming (2024) "When a Jew Loves a Nazi: Problems with Repurposing the Holocaust for Reparative Romance " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-9 Topic Kate Breslin Christian romance history