Associate Lecturer
Overview
Bonnie Evans is an Associate Lecturer (teaching-focused) in Media Studies at the University of Queensland. Her research has addressed the intersections between feminist politics and screen media, particularly film and television, and she has published on true crime documentary. Her PhD thesis explores aesthetic and thematic links between contemporary feminisms, including the Me Too Movement, and recent horror and true crime film and television. She received a UQ Dean's Award for Oustanding HDR Theses in 2022. She has also appeared on ABC radio as an expert in feminism and popular culture. She teaches film and television studies, and media studies.
Research Interests
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Gendered violence, horror and true crime
Representations of gendered violence in film, television and other media, in horror and true crime genres -
Pedagogical approaches to teaching media studies
How do we teach media studies in a rapidly changing media landscape? -
Contemporary feminism, gender, and popular culture
Recent articulations of feminist politics (including the 'fourth wave' and the Me Too Movement) and their relationship with popular or mass culture -
Embodied approaches
Phenomenology and other embodied approaches to studying film, television and new media
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Publications
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Journal Article: ‘There was a cone of silence as though this was normal’: tuning in and turning up the conversation on ‘Teach Us Consent’
Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Mickelburgh, Renée T., Henderson, Margaret, Evans, Bonnie and Gowlett, Christina (2024). ‘There was a cone of silence as though this was normal’: tuning in and turning up the conversation on ‘Teach Us Consent’. Gender and Education, 36 (3), 213-229. doi: 10.1080/09540253.2024.2305949
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Mackinlay, Liz, Mickelburgh, Renee, Monro, Anita and Evans, Bonnie (2023). Interim project report: what’s worrying young people? Tuning into and turning up the conversation on consent in tertiary residential colleges. Lismore, NSW Australia: Southern Cross University. doi: 10.25918/report.298
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Other Outputs: Evoking embodied experience: contemporary feminisms and gendered violence in horror and true crime film and television
Evans, Bonnie (2022). Evoking embodied experience: contemporary feminisms and gendered violence in horror and true crime film and television. PhD Thesis, School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/2eb2fc7
Publications
Book Chapter
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Allotta, Elizabeth, Doherty, Eloise, Andriani, Dewi, Burke, Kathy, Cooke, Emma, Evans, Bonnie, Green, Mel, Madden, Karen, Mickelburgh, Renee, Musofer, Muhammad Ali, Vayada, Preeti, Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Wyatt, Jonathan (2022). The affect of writing to it: a collaborative response to encountering Deleuze and Guattari for the first time. Doing Rebellious Research In and beyond the Academy. (pp. 188-207) edited by Pamela Burnard, Elizabeth Mackinlay, David Rousell and Tatjana Dragovic. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004516069_015
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Evans, Bonnie (2020). Screen memories in true crime documentary: trauma, bodies, and places in The Keepers (2017) and Casting JonBenet (2017). Places of traumatic memory: a global context. (pp. 263-283) edited by Amy Lynn Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_13
Journal Article
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Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Mickelburgh, Renée T., Henderson, Margaret, Evans, Bonnie and Gowlett, Christina (2024). ‘There was a cone of silence as though this was normal’: tuning in and turning up the conversation on ‘Teach Us Consent’. Gender and Education, 36 (3), 213-229. doi: 10.1080/09540253.2024.2305949
Other Outputs
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Mackinlay, Liz, Mickelburgh, Renee, Monro, Anita and Evans, Bonnie (2023). Interim project report: what’s worrying young people? Tuning into and turning up the conversation on consent in tertiary residential colleges. Lismore, NSW Australia: Southern Cross University. doi: 10.25918/report.298
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Evans, Bonnie (2022). Evoking embodied experience: contemporary feminisms and gendered violence in horror and true crime film and television. PhD Thesis, School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/2eb2fc7
