Published

Vivanco, Laura and Kyra Kramer. "There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre." Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1 (2010). [In addition to being available online as a webpage, it is also available as a pdf from the JPRS.]

Forthcoming

Vivanco, Laura. "One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction."  New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays. Ed. Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric M. Selinger. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2012. [Abstract. 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 45 (2012).

Vivanco, Laura. "Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie." Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2 (2012). [Abstract.]

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 and another on the topic of heroes, heroines and horses.