Dr Andrea Waling is a research officer in the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research and teaching interests include theoretical and empirical examinations of men and masculinity, investigations of sex and gender in the media, sexualisation and raunch culture, and LGBTIQ+ issues. She completed her undergraduate degree at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, majoring in anthropology, and her PhD in sociology at Monash University, focusing on the study of Australian men and masculinity. Her PhD thesis is currently being adapted into a book entitled White Masculinity in Contemporary Australia: The Good Ol’ Aussie Bloke for publication in 2019. She is currently working on a number of research projects, such as Muscling Up: Australian Men, Sexualisation and Body Image Enhancement (2015-2017), an Australian Research Council Discovery project that seeks to investigate the body image-enhancing practices of Australian men in relation to broader issues of masculinity and embodied subjectivity in late modernity.