Jenny Bonnevier
Title: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: jenny.bonnevier@oru.se
Phone: +46 19 303080
Room: F3157
About Jenny Bonnevier
Jenny Bonnevier is senior lecturer in English, American literature. Her academic fields are feminist theory, in particular material feminisms, and cultural studies.
Teaching
Bonnevier teaches primarily 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 and on African American women writers.
Research
Bonnevier's research currently explores speculative fiction that imagines societies in which the place of humanity and its relations to the more-than-human world challenge anthropocentric worldviews. It asks in what ways these stories can help us articulate new understandings of sustainable and just societies - livable worlds. The fiction it enters into conversations with is written by feminist, indigenous and Black diaspora writers and related traditions of thought are central to the analysis. The potential and limitation of the concept "transspecies kinship" is an important focus.
Bonnevier's research has previously dealt with reproductive technologies and kinship formations in contemporary American popular culture and her co-edited anthology Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance will be published with Lexington Books during the spring of 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.
Since 2010, Bonnevier is on the board of The Swedish Association for American Studies (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).
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Research teams
Publications
Articles in journals
- Bonnevier, J. , Borgström, E. & Yassin, D. (2017). Normers roll i ett mål- och kriterierelaterat bedömningssystem. Utbildning och Demokrati, 26 (2), 21-47.
- 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.
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Collections (editor)
- Åström, B. (ed.) & Bonnevier, J. (ed.) (2023). Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance.. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Conference papers
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Bonnevier, J. (2005). Estranging Cognition: Feminist Science Fiction and the Borders of Reason. (Doctoral dissertation). Uppsala: Engelska institutionen.
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).