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).
