Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities

This edited book demonstrates how love both unites and separates academic thinking across the arts and humanities, and beyond: from popular romance studies to border criminology, from sexology to peace studies, and into the fields of health, medicine, and engineering. This book is both a reflection and a call for a greater understanding of the complexity and importance of love in our lives, and in our world.

Dr Madalena Grobbelaar is an academic, a clinical psychologist and clinical psychosexual therapist in private practice. She is a lecturer in the Counselling and Psychotherapy programmes at Edith Cowan University and has taught into the Master of Sexology at Curtin University, Australia.

Dr Elizabeth Reid Boyd is an academic in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University, Australia. She writes fiction as Eliza Redgold, based upon the Gaelic meaning of her name. Naked: A Novel of Lady Godiva was published by St Martin’s Press, New York and is currently in script development as feature film GODIVA.

Dr Debra Dudek is an Associate Professor in the English Program at Edith Cowan University, Australia. She has published internationally on visual and verbal texts for young people, including the single-authored manuscript The Beloved Does Not Bite: Moral Vampires and the Humans Who Love Them.