Publications
Books:
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine’s Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation. Indiana University Press, 2023.
Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology. Palgrave, 2014.
Articles:
“The Women Who Changed the American Mass-Market Romance Genre: BIPOC Editors, Authors, and “Category” Romance Novels from 1980-1988” in Contemporary Women’s Writing, March 2024.
“Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and Now,” in Esferas Literarias, no. 6, December 2023, pp. 39-55. https://doi.org/10.21071/elrl.vi6.16287.
“The Origins of U.S. Mass-Market Category Romance Novels: Black Editors and Writers in the Early 1980s.” Journal of American Culture, Sep. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13488.
“When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy,” Special Issue for the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Spring 2020.
“From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Vieiwing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective” in forum for inter-American research, 10.1: May 2017.
“All Work or All Play: Indian Consumerism, Leisure, and Ethics Under Globalization in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” at
South Asian Popular Culture, 13.1: Apr. 2015.
“What’s Love Got to Do With It? In Romance Novels, Everything!”
Oklahoma Humanities Council Magazine. February 2015.
“How to Tame a Dragon: Ten Years After A Natural History of the Romance Novel.”
Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 3.2: 2013.
“The Globalized Avatar of the Hindi Cinema Hero: Hrithik Roshan’s ‘Double Role’ in Kaho Naa…Pyaar Hai/Say That You Love [Me] (2000).”
Film International, 10.4-5: 2012.
“Tempted by the Big Apple: The Fantasy of Western Spaces in Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna.”
Studies in South Asian Film and Media, 3.1: 2012.
Essays in edited collections:
“Romance in the Media” in the edited collection
Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (Routledge, 2021).
“Branding a Genre: A Brief Trans-Atlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art.” Essay in the collection
Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? Ed. William Gleason and Eric Selinger, Ashgate/Taylor and Francis, Feb. 2016.
“Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Novels” in
New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Sarah Frantz and Eric Selinger. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.
“Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: An Indian Perspective” in
Empowerment Versus Oppression: 21st Century Views of Popular Romance Novels. Ed. Sally Goade. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
Reviews:
Love and War: How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance (Tom Digby 2014) in the
Journal of Popular Romance Studies (
http://jprstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RLAW.03.2019.pdf)
