Dr. Bonny Cassidy
Senior Lecturer
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College: School of Media & Communication
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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bonny.cassidy@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-1040-0134
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
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 a 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 to 2019, 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 to 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.
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
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 to 2019, 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 to 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.
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
Supervisor projects
- The poetics of attention: local spaces and the maternal everyday.
- 26 Jun 2024
- niyakara tabalti: dreaming beyond the archive
- 1 Jan 2024
- Madness, Knowing and Narrating: The Aesthetic Form of Neurodivergent Literary Memoir
- 5 Jun 2023
- Ecstatic Essaying
- 30 May 2023
- Sovereign Aesthetics
- 15 May 2023
- Fox(Story) – a novel and a dissertation concerned with Displacing the human in post-nature writing
- 9 Feb 2021
- Queer Friendship: Towards A Poetics of Difference?
- 26 Aug 2020
- 'Only in the particular': An Informational Poetics for Precision Medicine
- 11 Dec 2019
- Persist: An Affective, Autoethnographic Feminist Creative Practice Model
- 10 Dec 2019
- The Blue House/ On Flower Time: A Slow Methodology for Experimental Life Writing
- 6 Jun 2019
- A White Woman Stories to Decolonise (Herself). Creative meanderings through the cultural abyss.
- 17 Oct 2017
- One in a Million Girl: A fictocritical screenplay for a feminist musical
- 8 Mar 2016
- Moxie: Vintage Feminism as Poetic Method
- 2 Mar 2015
- Not Fraying at the Edges: women, ageing and creativity.
- 1 Jan 2015
Teaching interests
• Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing
• Supervisor of Honours and Tutor in Honours Research Lab 1
• Supervisor of Masters and PhD by Creative Project and Dissertation
Supervisor interests
Poetry and poetics; Australian literature; Australian poetry; colonial and postcolonial literary criticism; ecopoetics and ecocriticism; ekphrasis; literary and creative pedagogy.
• Supervisor of Honours and Tutor in Honours Research Lab 1
• Supervisor of Masters and PhD by Creative Project and Dissertation
Supervisor interests
Poetry and poetics; Australian literature; Australian poetry; colonial and postcolonial literary criticism; ecopoetics and ecocriticism; ekphrasis; literary and creative pedagogy.
Research interests
Poetry and poetics; Australian literature; Australian poetry; colonial and postcolonial literary criticism; ecopoetics and ecocriticism; ekphrasis; literary and creative pedagogy.
