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Superwomen, Latte Dads and Feminist Alphas: Negotiations on Feminism in Contemporary Swedish Popular Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
10:
(2021)
Romance Fiction in the Archives
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
7:
(2018)
Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus
Regina:
University of Regina Press
(2016)
Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance
Abingdon, Oxon:
Routledge
(2020)
Softcore romance: on naked heroes and beefcakes in popular romance novels
Porn Studies
10:3: 283-298
DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2189899
(2023)
Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
(2012)
LGBTQ(NA), Queer New Adult Fiction: The Emergence of a New Genre and Its Impact on the LGBTQIA+ Community
Honors in Comparative Literary Studies,
Wellesley College
(2022)
Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Co
(2009)
Katherine V. Forrest: A Critical Appreciation
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Co
(2017)
The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s Macho Sluts as a Response to 1980s Anti-Pornography Feminism
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
4.1:
(2014)
Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
Austin:
University of Texas Press
(2022)
Marriage migration, intimacy and genre in Helen Hoang’s The Bride Test (2019) and Brigitte Bautista’s You, Me, U.S. (2019)
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
FORTHCOMING:FORTHCOMING
(2024)
Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing
New Media & Society
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
DOI: 10.1177/14614448231218991
(2023)
Asexual Romance in an Allosexual World: How Ace-Spectrum Characters (and Authors) Create Space for Romantic Love
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
(2020)
‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance
Gothic Studies
21.1:10-27
DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2019.0004
(2019)
LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:107-120
(1997)
The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
34.3:171-199
(2023)
Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians
Journal of Lesbian Studies
17.2:150-166
DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2012.691416
(2013)
From Romance to Magical Realism: Limits and Possibilities in Gay Adolescent Fiction
Children’s Literature in Education
40.4:333–348
DOI: 10.1007/s10583-009-9089-9
(2009)
Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
Austin:
University of Texas Press
(2022)
"Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?": Reading Interracial Romance in Contemporary Asian American Young Adult Fiction
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory
12.3:313–334
DOI: 10.1080/10436920108580294
(2001)
Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Genre Romance for the Twenty-First Century
Neo-Victorian Studies
13.1:242-269
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4320839
(2020)
Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances
MFS Modern Fiction Studies
62.3:462-80
DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2016.0038
(2016)
Loving the other woman: contemporary lesbian romance novels
Masters,
University of Colorado
(1991)
New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Company
(2022)
"Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen
Master of Arts,
DePaul University
(2010)
"Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
21.2:1-41
(2009)
Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction
Transformative Works and Cultures
4:
DOI: 10.3983/twc.2010.0133
(2010)
What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions
Journal of Bisexuality
15.4:509-531
DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2015.1092910
(2015)
"Suzanne Brockmann"
Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice
2.2/3:1-19
(2008)
Novel Approaches to Lesbian History
Cham, Switzerland:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2021)
Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes
Journal of Lesbian Studies
22.4:390-401
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2018.1450600
(2018)
The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades
Women: A Cultural Review
26.1-2:57-74
DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035024
(2015)
History, Huh: A Post-Modern Study of the Consumption of Queer Romance
Master of Arts in Women and Gender Studies,
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2024)
The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
34.3:171-199
(2023)
Genre-savvy Protagonists in Queer YA Rom-coms
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
12:
(2023)
Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western
Master of Arts,
University of Texas at Arlington
(2007)
The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
(2012)
Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction
Feminist Review
42.1:49-66
DOI: 10.1057/fr.1992.48
(1992)
Vergnügen oder Aufklärung? Sexualität in lesbischen Liebesromanen?
Das Argument - Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften
193:389-402
(1992)
Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
(2006)
Topic
Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association
New York:
The Council on Interracial Books for Children
(1981)
Topic
Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
(2022)
Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice
Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature
17.1:65-82
DOI: 10.2307/464325
(1998)
‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck
Women's History Review
19.5:685-702
DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2010.509147
(2010)
Reading and Rewriting Fat Romance: A Study of Twenty-First Century Thai and US Fat Romance Novels
PhD thesis,
University of York
(2021)
Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
13:
(2024)
A Time, A Place, and A Person: A comparative literary analysis of Red, White & Royal Blue and One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and how queer representation can be problematized in a classroom context
Teacher Education Programme for Upper Secondary School,
Linnaeus University
(2024)
There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
1.1:
(2010)
Le roman sentimental gay francophone
Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine
12:18-26
(2016)
Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing
New Media & Society
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
DOI: 10.1177/14614448231218991
(2023)
Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success
:
Princeton University Press
(2024)
The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science
Journal of Documentation
76.6:1473-1491
DOI: 10.1108/JD-04-2020-0057
(2020)
“I’ll Call it Platonic Magic”: Queer Joy, Metafiction, and Aro-Ace Autofictional Selves in Alice Oseman’s Loveless
In Progress: A Graduate Journal of North American Studies
2.1:59-72
DOI: 10.15488/17355
(2024)
Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour
:
Baraka
(2024)
Topic
Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
(2012)
Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1
Agenda
34.3:137-144
DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1782756
(2020)
Feminist Popular Fiction
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave
(2001)
Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Company
(2016)
Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities
Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education
14.1:53-70
DOI: 10.31390/taboo.14.1.07
(2014)
“You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
5.2:
(2016)
#RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family
Publishing Research Quarterly
36:403–417
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1
(2020)
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(2023)
Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction
Fat Studies
12.2:233-242
DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2047337
(2023)
Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle
American Literary History
33.2:394–415
DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajab004
(2021)
Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre
PhD thesis,
Northwestern University
(2022)
My Life as a Romance Reader
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:15-28
(1997)
Gender and Sex Stereotypes in Sports Romance Fiction
Masters thesis,
Macquarie University
(2023)
Where's Love Gone? Transformations in Romance Fiction and Scholarship
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:3-14
(1997)
Diversity in Romance Novels: Race, Sexuality, Neurodivergence, Disability, and Fat Representation
Publishing Research Quarterly
38:349–363
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-022-09881-6
(2022)
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica
Cham, Switzerland:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2018)
Love matters: the case for an inclusive, contemporary approach to romance themes and texts in subject English
The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
:
DOI: 10.1007/s44020-023-00041-7
(2023)
#RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family
Publishing Research Quarterly
36:403–417
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1
(2020)
Algospeak and algo-design in platformed book publishing: Revolutionary creative tactics in digital paratext to circumvent content moderation
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
Paper presented at AoIR2023: The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Philadelphia, PA, USA:
DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13477
(2023)
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(2023)
Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories
Sex Roles
78.1-2:107–118
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0762-y
(2018)
Romance Writing
Cambridge:
Polity Press
(2007)
The literary field of queer cultural production in contemporary India: considering popular queer texts via Bourdieu
Runas: Journal of Education & Culture
2.4:
DOI: 10.46652/runas.v2i4.48
(2021)
Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
(2022)
Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre
Englewood, Colorado:
Libraries Unlimited
(1999)
Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction
Santa Barbara, California:
Greenwood
(2018)
Topic
(Loves) Me, (Loves) Me Not: Unbuilding of Selfhood in the Romance of the Present
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
12:
(2023)
Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians
Journal of Lesbian Studies
17.2:150-166
DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2012.691416
(2013)
Intimatopias and the queering of Australian war fiction
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
34.6:940-954
DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1827371
(2020)
Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture
Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Press
(2016)
The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999
:
Type Punch Matrix
(2021)
Topic
Representing the Romance: Diversity and Inclusion in the Romance Collections of Public Libraries
M.S. in Library Science,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(2020)
“What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel
Callaloo
36.3:669-687
DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0159
(2013)
Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians
Journal of Lesbian Studies
17.2:150-166
DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2012.691416
(2013)
Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction
Transformative Works and Cultures
4:
DOI: 10.3983/twc.2010.0133
(2010)
A comparative analysis of lesbian romance novels and heterosexual romance novel themes
Master of Arts,
Central Missouri State University
(2000)
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Sexuality and Gender Exploration in Contemporary Slash Fanfiction
M.A. English,
Kutztown University
(2021)
Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories
Sex Roles
78.1-2:107–118
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0762-y
(2018)
Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
(2012)
Halfway-Sexual: Exploring Demisexuality in American Literature
PhD,
Louisiana State University
(2023)
Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
(2020)
#RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family
Publishing Research Quarterly
36:403–417
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1
(2020)
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(2023)
Sex, Power and Pleasure
Toronto:
The Women's Press
(1985)
There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
1.1:
(2010)
Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction
Tirril, Penrith:
Humanities-Ebooks
(2016)
Topic
Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction
Online:
(2020)
Topic
Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
(2020)
Jennifer Crusie
Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice
2.2/3:1-16
(2008)
Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour
:
Baraka
(2024)
Topic
Romancing Weird Fiction: Lovecraftian Reinscriptions in Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin
Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies
8.1:61-76
(2021)
Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
(2022)
Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women
Feminist Studies
41.2:293-334
DOI: 10.15767/feministstudies.41.2.293
(2015)
Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965
Journal of Lesbian Studies
18.4:372-392
DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2014.901846
(2014)
Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students
The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations
6.6:31-38
DOI: 10.18848/1447-9532/CGP/v06i06/39300
(2007)
Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories
Sex Roles
78.1-2:107–118
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0762-y
(2018)