In Preparation

 Vivanco, Laura. "One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in the Modern Romance Genre."  New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric M. Selinger. McFarland, forthcoming. [This essay was inspired by a discussion on Jennifer Crusie's blog about the "glittery hooha," the romance heroine's seemingly magical vagina.]

Vivanco, Laura. " Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances." Journal of Popular Culture, forthcoming.

Vivanco, Laura. "Understanding Underwear: Feminist Readings of Lingerie in the Romance Novels of Jennifer Crusie." Nothing But Good Times Ahead: the Novels of Jennifer Crusie. Ed. Eric M. Selinger and Laura Vivanco.

Vivanco, Laura. " 'So educational!' she said. 'And quite unexceptionable!': Georgette Heyer's The Nonesuch." [This essay is an expanded and revised version of a paper I presented to a colloquium on "Re-reading Georgette Heyer."]

Less Formal Pieces

An index is available of  many of the topics and romance novels I have analysed on the Teach Me Tonight academic romance blog.

 I have also written a longer, but still informal, essay on Louise Allen's Virgin Slave, Barbarian King.