Dr Bonnie Evans

Associate Lecturer

School of Communication and Arts

+61 7 336 52172

bonnie.evans@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

Bonnie Evans is an Associate Lecturer 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 teaches across film and television studies and media studies.

Publications

Book Chapters (2)

Journal Article (1)

Research Report (1)

Thesis (1)

Book Chapters

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

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

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

Research Report

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

Thesis

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