Leenstra, Lisa (2023) Covers of Lovers: A Multimodal Comparison of the Front Covers of Romance Novels in 2011 and 2021 Masters thesis, Universiteit Utrecht Topic paratext
Scupham, Hannah Elizabeth (2022) “Reader, I Married Him”: Readership, Imagination, and Politics of the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel PhD, University of Kansas Topic historical romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) readers Jane Austen Elizabeth Gaskell George Eliot
Beyer, Charlotte (2022) "Centring Women of Colour: Decolonising the Literature Curriculum with Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour " Decolonising the Literature Curriculum 45-63 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-91289-5_3 Topic teaching romance myth Bolu Babalola race/ethnicity
Richey, Weston (2023) (Loves) Me, (Loves) Me Not: Unbuilding of Selfhood in the Romance of the Present Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: DOI: 10.70138/UBMV6841 Topic readers LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors gender psychology Kris Ripper
Parks, Amy Noelle (2023) The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: DOI: 10.70138/PVPQ4885 Topic feminism YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance love sex/sexuality Jenny Han Katie Cotugno Nicola Yoon Laura Steven