(1988) Female journeys: the place of Jane Eyre and "Mills and Boon" in the search for women's existential space MA thesis, University of Auckland

(1998) The modern Arabic novel: a literary and linguistic analysis of the genre of popular fiction, with special reference to translation from English PhD, Heriot-Watt

(2003) Thirty years of change: heroes, heroines, and the popular romance MA thesis, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

(1997) Romance and Power: Writing Romance Novels as a Practice of Critical Literacy PhD, University of California, Berkeley