(2010) From Captors to Captives: American Indian Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms PhD, University of Southern California

(1999) Leaving Home for Romance: Tourist Women's Adventures Abroad PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

(1999) "And With the Land, Our Spirits So Blended": Interrelated Frontier Quests of Self in Contemporary Historical Romance - A Study of Rosanne Bittner's 'Savage Destiny' series Doctor of Arts, Idaho State University

(2005) Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions PhD, University of Stirling

(1986) Changing heroes: depictions of the male sex role in category romance novels, 1976-1983 MA thesis, Ohio State University