Overview
Background
Bonnie Evans is a 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 most recent journal article examines rape-revenge film in the context of the Me Too movement, specifically Corale Fargeat's 2017 film Revenge, and her forthcoming monograph The New Feminist Horror will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2025. Her book will explore aesthetic and thematic links between contemporary feminisms, including the Me Too Movement and recent horror cinema, and the PhD thesis that forms the basis of the book received a UQ Dean's Award for Oustanding HDR Theses in 2022. Bonnie teaches across film and television studies, media studies and digital media and in 2025, she won the HASS Early Career Teaching Excellence Award for her innovations in teaching.
She is interested in supervising HDR research on the following broad topics:
- Gender in film, television and media studies
- Feminist media studies
- Genre film, television and media, particularly horror
- Embodied approaches to media studies (phenomenology, affect, feeling and emotion)
- Documentary studies, true crime and reality television
- Gender and sexual violence in film and television
- Feminist movements in media (#MeToo, the fourth wave, second wave etc).
Availability
- Dr Bonnie Evans is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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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
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Embodied approaches to new media
Phenomenology and other embodied approaches to studying film, television and new media
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Gendered violence in screen media
Representations of gendered violence and sexual violence in film, television and other media
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Horror and other genres
Genre film and television --- horror in other mediums
Works
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2025
Journal Article
Rape and Revenge (2017): the male gaze and fourth wave feminist rage in rape-revenge film
Evans, Bonnie (2025). Rape and Revenge (2017): the male gaze and fourth wave feminist rage in rape-revenge film. Continuum, 39 (4), 603-614. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2025.2499967
2024
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
2023
Other Outputs
Interim project report: what’s worrying young people? Tuning into and turning up the conversation on consent in tertiary residential colleges
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
2022
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
2022
Book Chapter
The affect of writing to it: a collaborative response to encountering Deleuze and Guattari for the first time
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
2020
Book Chapter
Screen memories in true crime documentary: trauma, bodies, and places in The Keepers (2017) and Casting JonBenet (2017)
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
Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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