(2014) Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry PhD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

(2014) Cougars, Grannies, Evil Stepmothers, and Menopausal Hot Flashers: Roles, Representations of Age, and the Non-traditional Romance Heroine PhD, Queensland University of Technology

(2008) A first kiss is still a first kiss: romancing the mid-life reader and heroine: A basic renovation MA thesis, Queensland University of Technology

(2011) A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit PhD, Victoria University of Wellington

(1999) Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture PhD, Brown University

(2005) The Romance Novel of the 1930s and 1940s in Spain and Portugal: The Cases of Carmen de Icaza and Alice Ogando PhD, University of California, Irvine