Khuankaew, Sasinee (2017) Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions The Asian Conference on Literature 2017: Official Conference Proceedings : Topic gender Thailand sex/sexuality Buddhism
Markert, John (2017) God is Love: The Christian Romance Market Publishing Research Quarterly 33.3:268–28 Topic Christian romance Publishing sex/sexuality
Whalen, Kacey (2017) A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership MA thesis, DePaul University Topic m/m romance readers gender sex/sexuality K. J. Charles LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Shumway, David R. (1999) Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers Journal of Narrative Theory 29.1:110-134 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) love marriage history national identity
Goris, An (2011) From Romance to Roberts and Back Again: genre, authorship and the construction of textual identity in contemporary popular romance novels PhD, University of Leuven Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb authors trash/literary and or intellectual quality genre definitions paratext Harlequin Mills & Boon romantic suspense rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim (2011) "Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87 Topic Australia Publishing rural romance Harlequin Mills & Boon