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The Stable Muslim Love Triangle - Triangular Desire in African American Muslim Romance Fiction
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Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in Suzanne Brockmann’s Into the Night and Gone Too Far
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“Condoms Break. Birth Control Fails.” Heroes in the Procreative Realm and Jessica Scott’s “Anything for You”
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Courting Tragedy: Romance and the Liberal Redemption of Japanese American Mass Incarceration
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Shadows and Silhouettes: The Racial Politics of Category Romance
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The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance
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Becoming a Woman Through Romance
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Cowboys and Schoolteachers: Gender in Romance Novels, Secular and Christian
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(2004)
Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances
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Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer
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Romancing the World: Harlequin Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia
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The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right
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"Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?": Reading Interracial Romance in Contemporary Asian American Young Adult Fiction
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White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey
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The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States
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(2022)
Romancing the New Evangelical Woman
Master of Arts,
Baylor University
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Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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(2021)
American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation
Valencia:
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An Analysis to Determine if Popular Romance Novels, Read by Today’s High School Students, Reflect the Characteristics and Roles of Women in Current Society
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Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s Category Romances
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Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today
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'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954
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The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own
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A genre of our own: the cultural work of women's popular romance fiction
PhD,
Arkansas State University
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Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century
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Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance
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Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels
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Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association
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Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas
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Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century
PhD,
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“The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror
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Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances
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An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror
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The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s
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Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels
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Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success
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Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances
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Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West
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The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity
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Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance
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The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere
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Colleen Hoover’s Formulas for Best-Sellers as Seen in Reminders of Him and it Ends with Us
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Paradoxa Interview with Janet Dailey
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Beautiful and Damned: The Sexual Woman in Gothic Fiction
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Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries
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Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels
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Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction
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Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction
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American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance
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The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest
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Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance
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Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties
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The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I
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White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey
Sexuality & Culture
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« Tout un monde d’évasion » : adapter les romans sentimentaux pour un lectorat français
Meta
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An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Fictions of Belief: Reading Evangelical Novels in A Secular Age
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Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith
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Revising Captivity Narratives
PhD,
University of Florida
(2021)
White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey
Sexuality & Culture
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German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917
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Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film
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Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels
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Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels
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The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity
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The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition
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North American Romance Writers
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Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction
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Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms
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Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance
MELUS
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Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels
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Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965
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