The Bonkbuster: Women’s Popular Reading in the Long 1980s

Amy Burge is Associate Professor in Popular Fiction at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance (2016) and Managing Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies.

Jodi McAlister is Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University, Australia. She is the author of The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures (2020) and New Adult Fiction (2021), and Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance.