(1997) Trembling at Her Own Response: Resistance and Reconciliation in Mass-Market Romance Novels PhD, University of Delaware

(1996) Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

(1986) Raised on romance: a cultural study of romance fiction MA thesis, University of Virginia

(1986) Functioning fictions: the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels PhD, University of Iowa

(2002) Revising Captivity Narratives PhD, University of Florida