Mantere, Neea (2026) Heartthrobs and Inside Jokes: Narrative Empathy in Emily Henry’s Funny Story and People We Meet on Vacation Master’s thesis, University of Helsinki Topic Emily Henry humour readers chick lit
O’Connell, Mark Joseph (2026) No more martyrs: Heated Rivalry, queer romance and the end of tragic legitimacy The Journal of Popular Television 14.2:161-179 DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00158_1 Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Rachel Reid film/movies
Partzsch, Henriette (2026) Moving Texts, Moving Communities: Emotions, E. Marlitt’s Fiction and the Circulation of Controversial Texts in Periodicals across Linguistic and Cultural Borders in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe Modern Languages Open : DOI: 10.3828/mlo.v0i0.591 Topic E. Marlitt/Eugenie John Germany France Spain translation emotions romances in magazines and newspapers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Christian romance
Partzsch, Henriette Lappalainen, Päivi Mihurko, Katja Parente-Čapková, Viola Nedregotten Sørbø, Marie van Dijk, Suzan (2026) "One Woman Writer Everywhere: The Ubiquitous E. Marlitt " Redrawing Europe's Literary Map: Transnational Circulations of Women’s Writing 1850–1920 256–299 DOI:10.1163/9789004760974-008 Topic E. Marlitt/Eugenie John translation trash/literary and or intellectual quality Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Netherlands Norway Finland Spain Germany France Slovenia