Alyssa Cole

Bell, Carole V.

(2022) "I'm Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Solidarity, Black World-Building, and Black Love " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 29-64

Topic

United States of America

race/ethnicity

African American romance

romance and, or as, activism

social/economic class

(2021) “Romance Itself is Political”: The Power of the Popular Romance Novel and its Attempts at Feminism Honors Thesis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Hallock, Jennifer

(2018) History Ever After: Fabricated Historical Chronotopes in Romance Genre Fiction 2018 IASPR conference :

Topic

social/economic class

United States of America

Hendricks, Margo

(2022) "How a Black Author Found Her Romance History " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 95-120

Topic

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

teaching romance

race/ethnicity

African American romance

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2022) Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance : International Association for the Study of Popular Romance

Topic

African American romance

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

Rochelle Alers

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Jackson, Nicole M.

(2022) "Finding Queer Black Women in Romance. Finding Bits and Pieces of Me. " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 65-77

Topic

Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

African American romance

(2022) Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

African American romance

United States of America

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

happy ending

Keran, Molly

(2024) The Genre of Rape: Women’s Popular Literature and Contemporary Representations of Sexual Violence PhD, University of Michigan

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

social/economic class

sex/sexuality

health/medical

Michelson, Anna

(2021) The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9:177–210 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-020-00126-7

Topic

sociology

romance and, or as, activism

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

United States of America

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2021) "African American romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 229-251 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-10

Topic

African American romance

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

race/ethnicity

Publishing

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Alyssa Cole

Hendricks, Margo

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2022) Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance : International Association for the Study of Popular Romance

Topic

African American romance

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

Rochelle Alers

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Neely, Diana

(2023) Who Says Women Can’t Love and Empower?: How Representations of Women Have Progressed in Medical Romance Fiction Honors Thesis, Eastern Kentucky University

Topic

medical romance

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

(2022) Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

teaching romance

E. M. Forster