Dr Jodi McAlister is an Honorary Associate in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University in Sydney. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, working across History, English, and Cultural Studies. Her PhD thesis examined the evolution of representations of virginity loss in popular literatures. Her current research is on the history of romantic love and its representations, and its intersections with the history and discourses of sex. Her debut novel will be published in 2017