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

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Allan, Jonathan A. 
"Theorising the Monstrous and the Virginal in Popular Romance Novels," Conference Paper for the 8th Global Conference on Monsters and the Monstrous (Sunday 19th September – Wednesday 22nd September 2010 Oriel College, Oxford).
Arnold-Forster, Agnes and Alison Moulds. 
"Medical women in popular fiction", The BMJ Opinion, September 26, 2018. [Includes details about Mona Maclean, Medical Student (1892), a medical romance written by one of the earliest "registered female practitioners"]
Arvanitaki, Eirini. 
"Gender in recent romance novels: A third wave feminist Mills & Boon Love Affair?," Conference Paper for the 3rd Global Conference on Gender and Love (Friday 13th September – Sunday 15th September 2013, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom).

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Barra, Andrea. 
"Romance Novels in Contemporary Culture." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Hilton Atlanta and Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA, Aug 14, 2010. Abstract and PDF.
Bourland Ross, Catherine. 
"Carmen de Icaza: Novela Rosa as Feminist Discourse?" Southwestern University. Brown Working Papers in the Arts and Sciences 6 (2006).
Bower, Sarah. 
"Proud Protestations." Solander: The Magazine of the Historical Novel Society 8.1 (May 2004): 24-26. [Looks at romance and historical fiction, particularly the uses of history in historical fiction/historical romances.]
Budi Astuti, Retno and Rita Sutjiati Djohan. 
"Positive and Negative Politeness Strategies and Feminine Gender’s Speech Styles: A Case Study in the Novel “Savage Land”
Burge, Amy. 
" ‘Weird and kinky and medieval’: Gender, Sexuality and the Idea of the ‘Medieval’ in Modern Popular Sheikh Romance." Thirty-Fifth Century Romance, 20 February 2012. [1] ["a paper [given] to the Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Forum at the University of York in a panel entitled 'Feminist Narratives'."]

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Cao, Lucy. 
"The Prominence and Perception of East Asian Heroes", Unsuitable: Conversations about women, history & popular fiction, undated.[2]
Christoffersen, Kari. 
"Paranormal Romance Novels: Another Form of Tradition in the Modern World." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Hilton Atlanta and Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA, Aug 14, 2010. Abstract Pdf
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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Edlins, Mariglynn. 
"Superhero, Sleeping Beauty, or Devil? The Making of Orphan Myths and Public Administration". [What stories exist that might influence how street-level bureaucrats think about children who are separated from their parents? [...] In this paper, I explore the narratives of superhero stories, romance novels, and horror films in order to identify the orphan archetypes they portray.]


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Farrell, Christine. : "State of Age Diversity in Romance Novels", Unsuitable: Conversations about women, history & popular fiction, undated.[3]

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Greenfeld Benovitz, Miriam. 
"The Interactive Online Romance Community: Contests and 'Covers Gone Wild'" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 22, 2008 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p234077_index.html>. To access the pdf version scroll down to the section titled "Get this document" and click on the All Academic Inc. link. This should take you to a page with a direct link to the pdf. There's also an online version (scroll down to see the whole-page view and use the arrows to move forwards in the text).
Guthrie, Meredith. 
'“Whatever You Do, ‘Don’t Call It “Mommy Porn”: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fan Culture, and the Limits of Intellectual Property Rights,’ Infinite Earths, 8 Oct. 2013.[4]

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Haefner, Margaret J., Antonea E. Colón, and Sonia Lizardo. 
"Chipping Away at Patriarchy One Romance Novel at a Time." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 94th Annual Convention, TBA, San Diego, CA, Nov 20, 2008. [Abstract and details. To access the pdf version scroll down to the section titled "Get this document" and click on the All Academic Inc. link. This should take you to a page with a direct link to the pdf. There's also an online version (scroll down to see the whole-page view and use the arrows to move forwards in the text).
Hall, Cailey. 
"The Consolation of Genre: On Reading Romance Novels", Los Angeles Review of Books, 27 August 2018.
Harker, Margot.
Cultural Pariahs: The National Library of Australia's Collection of Australian Romance Comics, in The Library Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, March 2009 (Canberra, A.C.T.: National Library of Australia, March 2009-); and Preaching purity, in The Library Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, June 2009 (Canberra, A.C.T.: National Library of Australia, March 2009-).
Hassencahl, Fran. 
"Persecutors, Victims and Rescuers in Harlequin Romances." Paper presented at the combined Annual Meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association and the Midwest American Culture Association (Kalamazoo, MI, October 23-25, 1980). ["Based on a pattern of interaction, in which the interactants fulfill the roles of victim, persecutor, or rescuer, a study of ten Harlequin romantic novels was undertaken to determine what factors provided for the readers' identification with the Harlequin characters. [...] The study concluded that the major issue in these stories was one of power and control, and that the roles of victim, persecutor, and rescuer exist in real life and are reinforced by the role models provided in the Harlequin stories.] Abstract and link to pdf
Hoshi, Naoko. 
"Shojo Feminism, or How I Learned to Love Women (and myself) through Shojo Manga." Produced during GWST 335, an upper-year course in Feminist Theory in the Humanities at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus in Winter 2012. [5]
Hughes, Bill. 
"‘Two kinds of romance': Generic Hybridity and Epistemological Uncertainty in Contemporary Paranormal Romance." March 2013. Paper read at the Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture conference organised by St Mary’s University College, Twickenham and Strawberry Hill House.[6]
Hughes, Bill. 
"Landscapes of Romance: Generic Boundaries and Epistemological Dialectics in the Paranormal Romance of Julie Kagawa’s The Iron King", Paper presented at the Reading the Fantastic: Tales beyond Borders conference at the University of Leeds in April 2015. 2016, longer version of paper and details of earlier version atOpen Graves, Open Minds in an earlier version. Also available here.
Hurtubise, Josef. 
"Georgette Heyer: A Consideration of Her Period Influences." 1997. [This essay is cited in Karin E. Westman's "A Story of Her Weaving" but the three parts of Hurtubise's essay, once located on a geocities website, can no longer be found there. The essay can, however, be read via the Internet Archive: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3.

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Kadis, Lexi. 
"Harlequin Enterprises in Japan and its Venture into the Manga Market" Unsuitable: Conversations about women, history & popular fiction, undated.[7]
Kamble, Jayashree. 
"What's Love Got to Do with It? - In Romance Novels, Everything!" Oklahoma Humanities (Winter 2015). [8]
Keown, Bridget. 
"The Dangers of the Damaged Hero: Gender and Suffering in Romance Novels", Nursing Clio, 5 June 2018.[9]
Khuankaew, Sasinee, 2017. 
"Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions." The Asian Conference on Literature 2017: Official Conference Proceedings.[10]
Kilday, Faye L. and Carol S. Lomicky. 
"The beautiful blonde, blue-eyed virgin: An analysis of adjectives to describe women in pulp romance fiction." Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in San Antonio, Texas August 2005. [11]
Kingston, Elizabeth. 
"History's Been Hijacked: The Perpetuation of White Supremacist Ideology in History-based Fiction". Paper presented to Bowling Green State University's conference on Researching the Romance - April 13-14, 2018. She's also posted (a very slightly shorter version of) the paper on her own website along with a follow-up piece, "Practical Advice: Expanded edition" which is exactly what its title states it is.
Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor. 
"Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof)". Paper presented to Bowling Green State University's conference on Researching the Romance - April 13-14, 2018. Abstract. ["On Tuesday July 10, Bowling Green State University Libraries announced that Kathleen Kollman, a Ph.D. student in American Culture Studies, has been named as the inaugural recipient of The Roberta Gellis Memorial Paper Award" for this paper.]

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Lamprinou, Artemis. 
"Breaking the Rules: Translating Emotions in European Popular Romance." Paper given at EUPOP 2012:Inaugural Conference of the European Popular Culture Association.[12]
Long, Bridget. 
"Women's Romance Novel Readership: Motivations, Expectations, and Relationship Satisfaction" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 93rd Annual Convention, TBA, Chicago, IL, Nov 15, 2007 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p190263_index.html>. To access the pdf version scroll down to the section titled "Get this document" and click on the All Academic Inc. link. This should take you to a page with a direct link to the pdf. There's also an online version (scroll down to see the whole-page view and use the arrows to move forwards in the text).


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McAlister, Jodi. 
"First Love, Last Love, True Love: Heroines, Heroes, and the Gendered Representation of Love in the Category Romance Novel." Conference Paper for the 3rd Global Conference on Gender and Love (Friday 13th September – Sunday 15th September 2013, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom).
McAlister, Jodi. 
"Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and Genre in the Fifty Shades trilogy', Inter-Disciplinary.net, 2013.
McClain, Lee Tobin. 
"Paranormal Romance: Secrets of the Female Fantastic." [This was formerly available online here but is now only visible via the Internet Archive. The definitive version of the essay was published in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. Please see the entry for this item under "Tobin" in the relevant section of the bibliography.]
Mussell, Kay. 
"Are Feminism & Romance Novels Mutually Exclusive? A Quickie with Kay Mussell (November 1997)." At All About Romance.

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Neylon, Virginia Lyn. 
"Reading and Writing the Romance Novel: An analysis of Romance fiction and Its place in the community college classroom."

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Pagliassotti, Dru. 
"On Defining M/M Romance." 20 Feb. 2012.

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Ramos-Garcia, María T. 
"Society Restored... Or Maybe Not. The Challenge of Restoring Society in Serial Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy." [Other papers about paranormal romance by the same author can be found at Academia.edu]
Ramsdell, Kristin. 
"The Literature of Romance: A Librarian's Viewpoint." Originally published in Romance Writers' Report 19 (June 1999): 37-39.
Reitemeier, Rebecca. 
"Romance Novels and Higher Education." Inter-Text: An Undergraduate Journal for Social Sciences and Humanities 2.2 (2019).

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Schell, Heather M. and Ann K. G. Brown. 
"Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students". A paper presented on 13 April 2018 at Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University's Researching the Romance conference.
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.
Selinger, Eric Murphy. 
"Use Heart in Your (Re)Search: The Invitations of Popular Romance". A paper presented on 13 April 2018 at Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University's Researching the Romance conference.

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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.]
Toscano, Angela. 
"The Liturgy of Cliché: Ritual Speech and Genre Convention in Popular Romance," Paper presented at McDaniel College's "Popular Romance in the New Millenium" conference, November 11, 2011.
Turpin, Kelly. 
"Holding Out for a Hero: A Duel Method Analysis of the Damsel in Distress in Harlequin Presents" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul. 31, 2008. To access the pdf version scroll down to the section titled "Get this document" and click on the All Academic Inc. link. This should take you to a page with a direct link to the pdf. There's also an online version (scroll down to see the whole-page view and use the arrows to move forwards in the text).

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Vivanco, Laura. 
"Analysis of Louise Allen's Virgin Slave, Barbarian King." [13]
Vivanco, Laura. 
"Clothes Make the Man (or Woman)." [14]
Vivanco, Laura. 
"On Heroes, Heroines and Horses." [15]

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Wallace, Jennifer. 
“History Ever After: Fabricated Historical Chronotopes in Romance Genre Fiction”. A paper presented to the 2018 IASPR conference. Wallace, who writes romance as Jennifer Hallock has put her paper up on her website in two parts. Part one looks at how the bestsellers in historical romance are disproportionately: (1) set in Great Britain; (2) overpopulated with nobles; and (3) selective in their historical accuracy. Part two looks at how the aggregate impact of these chronotopes can be harmful to our understanding of history, to the romance market as a whole, and particularly to authors of diverse books.
Waite, Olivia. 
"Feminism A-Z: An alphabetical post series on intersectional feminism in romance."
Wentworth, Erika. 
"Willing Surrender: the Politics of Writing Romance." 1997.
Wood, Christine. 
"Tender Heroes, “Lezzybeans,” and Abnormals: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Paperback Novels, 1950-1965." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p182802_index.html>. To access the pdf version scroll down to the section titled "Get this document" and click on the All Academic Inc. link. This should take you to a page with a direct link to the pdf. There's also an online version (scroll down to see the whole-page view and use the arrows to move forwards in the text).
Wu, Huei-Hsia. "Romance Novels and Female Sexuality
Vicarious Participation?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 10, 2006. [Abstract and details. To access the pdf version scroll down to the section titled "Get this document" and click on the All Academic Inc. link. This should take you to a page with a direct link to the pdf. There's also an online version (scroll down to see the whole-page view and use the arrows to move forwards in the text).
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