About

Wallea Eaglehawk is an Australian sociologist, author, and cultural critic whose work explores how people, symbols, and systems shape one another. She writes at the intersection of sociology, mythology, and media studies, tracing how culture, emotion, and imagination intertwine to form modern identities.

Her first book, Idol Limerence: The art of loving BTS as phenomena (2020), established her as a distinctive voice in fandom studies and cultural sociology. Her forthcoming works include Iconicism, a landmark exploration of how cultural icons are made and remembered, and The Shape of Hunger, her debut novel. Wallea also co-edited and contributed to Eco-Activism and Social Work: New Directions in Leadership and Group Work (Routledge, 2020), bridging her sociological and eco-ethical foundations with her creative practice.

She leads The BTS Theorist, an influential platform devoted to examining BTS, fandom, and cultural mythmaking. Across her projects, Wallea’s work blends rigorous theory with emotional insight, investigating what it means to love, believe, and belong in an age of saturation and spectacle.