Rate My Professor Bonnie Evans

Dr. Bonnie Evans serves as a Lecturer in Media Studies within the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, part of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She completed her PhD from the School of Communication and Arts in 2022, with the thesis "Evoking embodied experience: contemporary feminisms and gendered violence in horror and true crime film and television," which received the UQ Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Theses. Evans's research specializations encompass the intersections between feminist politics and screen media, particularly film and television, true crime documentary, feminist horror, representations of gendered and sexual violence, and embodied approaches including phenomenology, affect, feeling, and emotion in media studies. Her academic interests include contemporary feminism such as the fourth wave and #MeToo movement in relation to popular culture, genre film and television especially horror, documentary studies, reality television, and feminist movements in media.

Evans's key publications feature the forthcoming monograph The New Feminist Horror (Edinburgh University Press, 2027), based on her PhD research. Recent journal articles are "Rape and Revenge (2017): the male gaze and fourth wave feminist rage in rape-revenge film" (Continuum, 2025) and "‘There was a cone of silence as though this was normal’: tuning in and turning up the conversation on ‘Teach Us Consent’" co-authored with Elizabeth Mackinlay, Renée T. Mickelburgh, Margaret Henderson, and Christina Gowlett (Gender and Education, 2024). Prominent book chapters include "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, 2020) and "The affect of writing to it: a collaborative response to encountering Deleuze and Guattari for the first time" co-authored with Elizabeth Allotta et al. (Doing Rebellious Research In and beyond the Academy, 2022). She co-authored the research report "Interim project report: what’s worrying young people? Tuning into and turning up the conversation on consent in tertiary residential colleges" (2023). Evans teaches in film and television studies, media studies, and digital media, and in 2025 received the HASS Early Career Teaching Excellence Award for innovations in teaching.