STAFF PROFILE
Dr Bonny Cassidy
Position:
Senior Lecturer
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
DSC|School - Media & Communication
Phone:
+61399253792
Email:
bonny.cassidy@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Dr Bonny Cassidy is Senior Lecturer in the Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) within RMIT's School of Media and Communication. She is a member of RMIT’s Academic Board and the School of Media & Communication’s Ngulu collective. Bonny is an widely published poet, essayist and critic.
As a professional poet and writer, Bonny has received numerous awards and grants and her work is published widely locally and overseas. She is regularly involved in public readings and festivals, as well as residencies abroad.
Bonny is a core member of RMIT's non/fictionLab research group. From 2015-19 she was coordinator of the biannual Melbourne Visiting Poets Program. She has served as a member of the Bundyi Giri project in the Office of Indigenous Education & Engagement, and also served as Program Manager of the BA Creative Writing from 2017-2019.
As a lecturer and tutor in Creative Writing, Bonny has coordinated and taught into courses across the studio program, specialising in the areas of poetry, writing foundations and essay writing, as well as work-integrated learning about writing respectfully in relation to First Nations sovereignty. She loves supervising Honours students working in the fields of her research interests, and postgrads working in creative practice.
Bonny is a core member of RMIT's non/fictionLab research group. From 2015-19 she was coordinator of the biannual Melbourne Visiting Poets Program. She has served as a member of the Bundyi Giri project in the Office of Indigenous Education & Engagement, and also served as Program Manager of the BA Creative Writing from 2017-2019.
As a lecturer and tutor in Creative Writing, Bonny has coordinated and taught into courses across the studio program, specialising in the areas of poetry, writing foundations and essay writing, as well as work-integrated learning about writing respectfully in relation to First Nations sovereignty. She loves supervising Honours students working in the fields of her research interests, and postgrads working in creative practice.
- Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing
- Supervisor of Honours and Tutor in Honours Research Lab 1
- Supervisor of Masters and PhD by Creative Project and Dissertation
- School of Media & Communication Ngulu Subcommittee (2021-)
- RMIT Academic Board (2020-)
- Strategic Development, Bundyi Girri Project Team (2019-2020)
- Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing-Honours), University of Wollongong
- PhD (Arts-English), University of Sydney
Memberships
- Core Member – non/fictionLab
- Academic Board
Academic awards
- Commendation, Vice Chancellor’s Award for Strategic Contributions to Learning and Teaching - Initiatives that Exemplify RMIT’s Commitment to Reconciliation in the Curriculum 2020
- Dean's Award for Indigenous Engagement, School of Media & Communication 2018
- Dame Leonie Kramer Prize, University of Sydney, 2010
- University Medal, University of Wollongong, 2004
Current professional activities
- Board of Directors, Australian Poetry Ltd
- Editorial Advisory Board Member, Rabbit Journal
- Management Committee Member, Cordite Poetry Review
Industry fellowships and grants
- Blindside Regional Artist Residency 2020
- ASAL Seed Funding, 2019
- Shortlisted, Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 2018
- Seoul-Melbourne Intercultural Poetry Exchange, 2016
- Australian Poetry Tour of Ireland Fellow, 2014
- Shortlisted, Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 2013
- Arts Victoria, Arts Development Grant 2013
- Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Poetry 2010-2012
- University of Western Sydney Biodiversity & the Arts Program, Sept 2010
- The Australia Council for the Arts, Literature Board New Work Grant 2010
- Asialink Literature Fellowship 2008
- Cassidy, B. (2023). Memory Book In: Heat Sydney, Australia
- Cassidy, B. (2022). A road of national importance In: Red Room Poetry Fellowship Sydney, Australia
- Cassidy, B. (2021). Prose poetry portfolio In: Various Various
- Cassidy, B.,Daley, L.,Magner, B. (2021). Un-knowing expertise in the time of pandemic: Three teaching perspectives In: TEXT Journal of Writing & Writing Courses, 25, 1 - 19
- Cassidy, B. (2021). Bordering, dissolving, meeting regenerating In: New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland
- Cassidy, B. (2020). Between Night and Night In: Sydney Review of Books Sydney, Australia
- Cassidy, B. (2020). Structural Whiteness and the Business of Creative Writing: Developing Reflexive Pedagogy In: Text, 24, 1 - 20
- Cassidy, B. (2019). Portfolio: Hybrid Form, Bonny Cassidy, 2019 In: Melbourne Knowledge Week Melbourne, Australia
- Cassidy, B. (2019). Portfolio: Literary criticism, Bonny Cassidy, 2016–2019 In: Various Melbourne, Australia
- Cassidy, B. (2018). Poetry portfolio 2018 (Bonny Cassidy) In: Avantwhatever/Australian Poetry Journal/Amberflora Melbourne, Australia
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
5 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions5 PhD Current Supervisions
Poetry and poetics; Australian literature; Australian poetry; colonial and postcolonial literary criticism; ecopoetics and ecocriticism; ekphrasis; literary and creative pedagogy.
- Monument (ASAL). Funded by: ASAL Seed Funding Grants from (2019 to 2019)
- Melbourne Visiting Poets Program 2018/19. Funded by: Australia Council for the Arts - Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups 2017, Round 1 from (2017 to 2019)