Dissertations/Theses, a New Issue of JPRS and more!

Altamimi, Leena (2026). Desert Desires and the War on Terror: Pre- and Post-9/11 Sheikh RomancesPost-9/11 Sheikh Romances. Master of Arts/Science in Book Publishing, Portland State University.

 

Fahmy, Zulfa, Teguh Supriyanto, Agus Nuryatin, and Yusro Edy Nugroho, 

(2026). "Islamic romance novels in the Indonesian digital sphere: Between religious ornamentation and genre standardization." Diglosia: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, Sastra, Dan Pengajarannya 9.2: 507-524. [The authors state that they used AI tools.]

 

Ficke, Sarah (2026). "Narrating Histories of Love and Violence: The Civil War and Alyssa Cole’s A Hope Divided." Journal of Popular Romance Studies 15.1.

Filbrun, Tricia (2026). "Judging a Book by Its Cover: Exploring Ethical Solutions for Marketing & Labeling Romance Novels with Illustrated Cover Art."  Honors Project. Bowling Green State University. 

Glenn, Wendy J. (2026). "Sport as Suitor: The Presence and Disruption of Romance Tropes in Young Adult Sports Fiction." Literature 6.2.

Guhr, Svenja (2026). "Between Whispers and Screams: Loudness Standard Deviation as a Proxy for Explicit Content Detection in US Romance Novels." Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities: 368–380. 

Ingram, Toni (2026). "Romantasy and the quest for cliteracy." Sex Education. Online First.

 

Jalksjö Greksa, Olivia (2026). Relational Equality in M/M and Heterosexual Romance: A Reader Response Analysis. Bachelor's Thesis, Mälardalen University.

Kjølner, Mira Pedersen (2026). Choosing The Monster: Otherness, Desire, And Masculinity In Contemporary Monster Romance. Masters Thesis, Aalborg University.

Kryha, Veronika (2026). Translation project: Game Point by Meg Jones. BA thesis, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University.

 

Kvistad, Erika (2026). "Happily Ever After?/Happily Ever After! Negotiating the Gothic in Contemporary Dark Romance." Journal of Popular Romance Studies 15.1.

Monier, Mel (2026). "Reading the dark romance: exploring audience engagement with sexual power dynamics in dark romance novels." Porn Studies. Online First.

 

Moolla, F. Fiona (2026). "Love Stories and Stories About Love: Popular and Literary Romance in Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Season of Crimson Blossoms." Journal of Popular Romance Studies.

 

Moore, Jeania Ree V. (2026). Literature of Hope: Reading Romance in the Religious Lives of Black Women. PhD thesis, Yale University. [Links to abstract, and selected quotations]

 

Myisha, Nabila and Linusia Marsih (2026). "Loving Under Power: Politics and Tradition Shaping Gay Love in Red, White & Royal Blue." Parafrase 26.1:18-24.

 

McCray, Nia (2026). The Outcome of Falling. Master’s Program in Creative Writing, University of Texas at El Paso. [Excerpt via ProQuest]

 

Pérez Belmont, Andrea (2026). Smut: Contemporary Erotic Romance as a Discourse of Female Sexuality. Bachelor's Thesis, Masaryk University. 

 

Šmídová, Monika Markéta (2026). Kissing for Dear Life in a Dead Land: English Folkloric Liminality in Queer Paranormal Historical Popular Romance. PhD, Masaryk University.

 

Tandon, Lasya (2026). "(Dis)Honourable Escapes: Reassessing Sexuality in Georgette Heyer’s Historical Romances." Journal of Popular Romance Studies 15.1.