Sarah started following the work of Chuck Tryon, Fayetteville State University, English.
Sarah started following the work of Devaleena Raj, University of Delhi, Swami Shraddhanand College, Department of English.
Sarah started following the work of Berthold Schoene, Manchester Metropolitan University, English.
Faculty Member, English
About
My training is in the 18th Century Novel. My dissertation was on how four late 18th/early 19thC British women novelists (Elizabeth Inchbald, Hannah More, Mary Brunton, and Jane Austen) constructed their male characters.
I have since moved time periods, but not theoretical focus: I now work on how modern romance novelists construct their heroes. I'm working on a book called "Alpha Male" about the American romance hero from 1972 through today.
Additional research areas: Jane Austen, of course. I am (humbly) the world's foremost academic expert on military romance author Suzanne Brockmann (not that there's much competition). I also study BDSM romance novels and M/M romance novels (romances about gay men written by women for women).
I am the founder and President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR).
I received my dissertation from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I currently teach composition and literature at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.
