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Jenny Bonnevier

Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

Email: amVubnkuYm9ubmV2aWVyO29ydS5zZQ==

Phone: +46 19 303080

Room: F3157

Research subject

English

Research environments

Center for Research in the Humanities

About Jenny Bonnevier

Jenny Bonnevier is associate professor in English, specializing in American literature. Her academic fields are feminist theory, in particular material feminisms, more-than-human studies and the critical posthumanities.

Teaching

Bonnevier primarily teaches in the teacher training programs, especially course modules on subject pedagogy and literary pedagogy, English language literature, and culture. She also teaches courses on speculative fiction.

Research

Bonnevier's research currently explores speculative fiction that challenge antropocentric world views through re-imagining the place of humanity and its relations to the more-than-human world. In what ways these stories can help us articulate new understandings of sustainable and just societies - livable worlds? The fiction her reserach enters into conversations with is written by feminist, indigenous and Black diaspora writers and related traditions of thought are central to the analysis. An important focus is the potential and limitation of the concept "transspecies kinship." Together with Berit Åström at Umeå University, Bonnevier also works on the project "Circuits of Care" which explores ways in which androids and AI-systems enter into kinship relations with humans and perform labor of care in speculative fiction narratives.

Bonnevier's research has previously dealt with reproductive technologies and kinship formations in contemporary American popular culture. Her co-edited anthology Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance was published with Lexington Books in 2023.

She is a member of the Science Fiction Research Association and the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

Bonnevier received her PhD in 2005 in English, especially American literature, at Uppsala university, with the dissertation Estranging Cognition: Feminist Science Fiction and the Borders of Reason.

Bonnevier is also interested in the field of literary pedagogy, especially the potential of narratives of the future in supporting increased understanding of and will to action to create a more sustainable world.

Bonnevier is one of the founding members on the Swedish network for researchers in speculative fiction. She was on the board of The Swedish Association for American Studies between 2010 and 2024 (president of the association 2012-2016 and 2020-2024). She was on the board of the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute in Sweden (ACSIS) 2016-2018. She also serves on the editorial board of the journal American Studies in Scandinavia and has served om the editorial board of Tidskrift för genusvetenskap (Journal of Gender Studies).

Active projects

Transspecies Kinship and Hominid Ecologies: Imagining Livable Worlds in a (Post)Apocalyptic Present

Completed projects

(Un)making Families: Representations of Reproductive Technologies and the Politics of Family in Contemporary American Culture

Research groups

Sustainability Centered Humanities

Publications

Articles in journals

Bonnevier, J. & Soderstrom, M. (2024). Interview: On N. K. Jemisin and Speculative Fiction as a Liberatory Space. Socialism and Democracy, 36 (3), 135-149. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. , Hjorthén, A. & Mays, C. (2024). Teaching American Studies in Sweden: Navigating an Archipelagic Field. American Studies in Scandinavia, 56 (2), 47-56. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. & Hjorthén, A. (2024). Teaching American Studies in the Nordic Countries: An Introduction. American Studies in Scandinavia, 56 (2). [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2023). In the Womb of Utopia: Feminist Science Fiction, Reproductive Technology, and the Future. American Studies in Scandinavia, 55 (1), 70-93. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. , Borgström, E. & Yassin, D. (2017). Normers roll i ett mål- och kriterierelaterat bedömningssystem. Utbildning och Demokrati, 26 (2), 21-47. [BibTeX]
Öberg Tuleus, M. , Olsson, A. & Bonnevier, J. (2012). Sharing: a Comperative Perspective on the Relation Between Teaching and Learning. Journal of the Comenius Association (21), 7-12. [BibTeX]

Articles, book reviews

Bonnevier, J. (2020). Book Review: Equine Fictions. Human-Horse Relationships in Twenty-First-Century Writing. American Studies in Scandinavia, 52 (1), 149-152. [BibTeX]

Articles, reviews/surveys

Bollobás, E. , Kušnír, J. , Zygadło, G. , Clary, F. , Francescato, S. , Nabae, H. , Tsujimoto, Y. , Bonnevier, J. & et al. (2016). International Scholarship. American Literary Scholarship, 2014 (1), 415-494. [BibTeX]
Clary, F. , Giesenkirchen Sawyer, M. , Puglisi, F. , Ærvold Bjerre, T. , Bonnevier, J. , Habegger-Conti, J. , Nyman, J. & Cohn, D. (2015). International Scholarship. American Literary Scholarship, 2013 (1), 427-496. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. , Clary, F. , Puglisi, F. , Tsujimoto, Y. , Nabae, H. , Aervold Bjerre, T. , Habegger-Conti, J. , Nyman, J. & et al. (2014). International Scholarship. American Literary Scholarship, 2012 (1), 403-480. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. , Heide, M. , Ciani Forza, D. , Beppu, K. , Aervold Bjerre, T. , Habegger-Conti, J. & Nyman, J. (2012). International Scholarship. American Literary Scholarship, 2010 (1), 449-507. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. , Clary, F. , Heide, M. , Ciani Forza, D. , Aervold Bjerre, T. , Johannessen, L. , Nyman, J. & Márquez, A. C. (2011). International Scholarship. American Literary Scholarship, 2009 (1), 465-520. [BibTeX]

Chapters in books

Bonnevier, J. & Åström, B. (2023). Introduction: Speculative Fiction, Critical Kinship Studies, and the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin. In: Berit Åström; Jenny Bonnevier, Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance (pp. 1-22). . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2023). Kinship Matters: Bodies and Power in N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy. In: Berit Åström; Jenny Bonnevier, Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance (pp. 25-43). . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2023). Making Babies and Making Home in an All-Female World: Reproduction, Sexuality and Belonging in Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite. In: Britt Johanne Farstad, Populating the Future: Families and Reproduction in Speculative Fiction (pp. 37-56). . Kriterium/Gävle University Press. [BibTeX]
Grimbeek, M. (2023). Monstrous Kin in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy and Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix. In: Berit Åström; Jenny Bonnevier, Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance (pp. 177-196). Lanham: Lexington Books. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2021). Plan B: Single Women, Romantic Love and the Making of Babies in The Back-Up Plan and The Switch. In: Åström, Berit; Bergnehr, Disa, Single Parents: Representations and Resistance in an International Context (pp. 235-251). . Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2020). "Whilaway"? På jakt efter en feministisk framtid i det amerikanska politiska landskapet. In: Niklas Bolin; Kajsa Falasca; Marie Grusell; Lars Nord, Stjärnspäckat: Reflektioner från amerikanska presidentvalet 2020 av ledande forskare (pp. 62-62). Sundsvall: Mittuniversitetet. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2019). Making Clones, Making Mothers: Motherhood in Orphan Black. In: Janet Brennan Croft and Alyson R. Buckman, Sisterhood, Science and Surveillance in Orphan Black: Critical Essays (pp. 58-76). . McFarland. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2016). "Lärdomar som vi aldrig anade": Doris Lessing som science fiction-författare. In: Ingrid Holmquist och Anna Cavallin, Doris Lessing: en författare i vår tid (pp. 195-211). Umeå: Bokförlaget h:ström - Text & Kultur. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2005). Drawing a Line: Science Fiction or Fantasy?: The Case of Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home . In: Åsa Johansson och Petra Ragnerstam, Limitation and Liberation: Women Writers and the Politics of Genre (pp. 51-57). Uppsala: Uppsala universitet. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2002). Sharing Knowledges, Changing Identities: Female Exchanges in Joanna Russ's The Female Man. In: Kerstin W. Shands, Collusion and Resistance: Women Writing in English. Huddinge: Södertörn Högskolepress. [BibTeX]

Collections (editor)

Bonnevier, J. (ed.) & Hjorthén, A. (ed.) (2024). American Studies in Scandinavia: Special Issue: Teaching American Studies in Scandinavia (56:2ed.).. Nordic Association for American Studies (American Studies in Scandinavia 56:2). [BibTeX]
Åström, B. (ed.) & Bonnevier, J. (ed.) (2023). Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance.. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. [BibTeX]

Conference papers

Bonnevier, J. (2023). “I live the City”: Emerging Radical Kinship Connections in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became. Paper presented at 44th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Afrofuturism (ICFA 44), Orlando, FL., USA, March 15-18, 2023. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2023). Kin-Making is World-Making: The Hominid Ecologies of Shora. Paper presented at 27th Biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS 2023): Crises and Turns: Continuities and Discontinuities in American Culture and Society, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, May 25-27, 2023. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. & Åström, B. (2023). Selfless Servers, Weapons in Waiting: Androids Parenting Human Children in Raised by Wolves and I am Mother. Paper presented at Virtual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts: "AAAA!:AI, Algorithms, Automata and Art." November 5-11, 2023. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2023). Vems är framtiden? Framtidsskildringars möjligheter i utbildning för klimaträttvisa. Paper presented at Litteraturdidaktik i framtiden och framtiden i litteraturen: Litteraturdidaktisk nätverkskonferens, Linnéuniversitetet, Campus Växjö, 18-20 Oktober, 2023. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2022). A Re-enchantment of Science Fiction? Reading Okorafor's Work in an Animist Tradition. Paper presented at VICFA 1 - "The Global Fantastic", International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Online Conference, October 7-9, 2022. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2022). Embodying the "Undoing of the Human": Nnedi Okorafor's Binti, Feminist Transspecies Kinship and a Livable Future. Paper presented at Futures from the Margins (SFRA 2022), Oslo, Norway, June 27 - July 1, 2022. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2022). Teaching American Studies in the Context of Teacher Education: The Case of "In/Equality in American Culture and Society". Paper presented at 11th Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS), Örebro, Sweden, October 6–7 2022. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2018). Making Babies and Making Home in an All-female World: Reproduction, Sexuality, and Belonging in Nicola Griffith's Ammonite. Paper presented at 10th Biennial Conference of The Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS), "Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America", Stockholm, Sweden, September 28-30, 2018. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2018). Plan B: Single Women, Romantic Love and the Making of Babies in The Back-Up Plan and The Switch. Paper presented at Close Relations: A Multi-and Interdisciplinary Conference on Critical Family and Kinship Studies, Uppsala, Sweden, October 24-26, 2018. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2016). In the Womb of Utopia: Feminist Science Fiction and Representations of Reproductive Technology. Paper presented at Ninth Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden, September 30 - October 1, 2016. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2015). Family Values and Commercial Vices: Stories of Surrogacy in Contemporary US Culture. Paper presented at "American Values: Public Virtues, Private Vices?" The Nordic Association for American Studies 24th Biennial Conference at Oulu University, May 11-13, 2015. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2014). Who are all right in America? : reproductive technology, race, gender and sexuality in The kids are all right and Made in America. Paper presented at Eighth Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies, Örebro, Sweden, September 26-27, 2014. [BibTeX]
Bonnevier, J. (2013). Born in the USA: representations of reproductive technology and the politics of family. Paper presented at The 23rd Biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies, Karlstad, Sweden, May 23-24, 2013. [BibTeX]

Doctoral theses, monographs

Bonnevier, J. (2005). Estranging Cognition: Feminist Science Fiction and the Borders of Reason. (Doctoral dissertation). Uppsala: Engelska institutionen. [BibTeX]

Reports

Lundahl, C. , Bonnevier, J. , Arensmeier, C. , Borgström, E. , Lennqvist-Lindén, A. , Nilsson, P. , Sundberg, B. , Sundhäll, M. & et al. (2016). Nationella proven i grundskolans årskurs 6 och 9: En uppföljning av lärares, rektorers och elevers uppfattningar om proven. Stockholm: Skolverket (Skolverkets rapport 447). [BibTeX]