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

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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).

Cockerel, Kristin.: "The Not So Worthless Romance Novels and Their Unscathed Younger Readers."

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.

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

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.

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 [Please note that this is an out-of-date version of this essay.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.]