Academic Online Essays (not published in academic journals or volumes)

From this page you may return to the main Romance Scholarship page or go directly to

• Academics Who Write Romance
• Bibliography A-G - the first part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
• Bibliography H-O - the second part of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
• Bibliography P-Z - the end of our bibliography of academic articles and books about romance.
• Bibliography of Scholarship in Languages Other than English.
• Dissertation Abstracts
• Guides to the Genre
• Romance in the Media - lists news items/features items about romance.
• Romance Resources for Academics - lists romance-related resources which may be of interest to academics.
• Writers on Romance - lists items written about the genre by romance authors but not published in academic journals or books.

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Bourland Ross, Catherine. 

"Carmen de Icaza: Novela Rosa as Feminist Discourse?" Southwestern University. Brown Working Papers in the Arts and Sciences 6 (2006).

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Cockerel, Kristin. 

"The Not So Worthless Romance Novels and Their Unscathed Younger Readers."

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Downey, Kristen. 

"Mass-Produced Fantasy in Commodity Culture: A Reading of Zizek and the Contemporary Romance Novel." Proceedings of the Second Annual Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Conference, February 2004.

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McClain, Lee Tobin. 

"Paranormal Romance: Secrets of the Female Fantastic."

Mussell, Kay. 

"Are Feminism & Romance Novels Mutually Exclusive? A Quickie with Kay Mussell (November 1997)." At All About Romance.

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Ramsdell, Kristin. 

"The Literature of Romance: A Librarian's Viewpoint." Originally published in Romance Writers' Report 19 (June 1999): 37-39.

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Seale, Maura. 

"Fabio Gets an “F”: All About Romance’s Collection of Book Reviews."

Seale, Maura. 

"The Imperial Politics of 'Escapist Rot': Depictions of Race, Imperialism, and Decolonization in Harlequin Novels." Presented at the 2003 Midwest Popular Culture Association, at the 2004 National Popular/American Culture Associations, and at the 2004 American Studies Association conferences.

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Taylor, Jessica. 

"'And you can be my Sheikh': Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels." 2003. [Please note that this is an out-of-date version of this essay. A revised version was published in the Journal of Popular Culture in 2007 - please see the main bibliography for details.]

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Wentworth, Erika. 

"Willing Surrender: the Politics of Writing Romance." 1997.