(1984) Becoming a Woman through Romance: Adolescent Novels and the Ideology of Femininity PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison

(1985) A romantic past : a study of historical romance as a form of recreational fiction in public libraries M.A. Library Studies, South Australian Institute of Technology

(1989) 'Re-reading Jane': Jane Austen's legacy to twentieth-century women writers PhD, Bowling Green State University

(1996) The novels of Mills and Boon in the post-war period M.Phil, University of Hull

(2003) Hearts of Darkness: The Racial Politics of Popular Romance PhD, University of Maryland, College Park