Dr Amy Boyle
Lecturer
PhD (Examiners' Commendation for Outstanding Thesis, University of Wollongong)
BA Hons (Class I, Dean's Scholar, University of Wollongong)
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of the Arts and Media
Dr Amy Boyle (she/her) is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of New South Wales. Amy teaches into screen, media and cultural studies, and has also worked at the University of Wollongong, University of Newcastle, University of New England and University of Adelaide. Her research is interested in the potential of television, screen media and popular culture for purposes of social transformation. Amy has published in academic journals including Television & New Media, Feminist Media Studies and Signs, and her monograph, Popular Feminist Television, is forthcoming (Routledge 2026).
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Books
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Boyle, Amy, forthcoming, Popular Feminist Television: Women-Centric Series and Transmedia Engagements, Routledge.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
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Boyle, Amy, Alexander Beare, Robert Boucaut, Marion McCutcheon, Damien O’Meara, Sue Turnbull, Elke Weissmann, forthcoming, “Sites of Struggle: Television’s Cultural and Economic Value,” Critical Studies in Television.
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Karageorgos, Effie, Amy Boyle, Trisha Pender and Julia Cook, 2023, “Perpetration, victimhood and blame: Australian newspaper representations of domestic violence, 2000-2020,” Violence Against Women, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 2148-2173. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012231166401.
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Boyle, Amy, 2023, “‘Domestic feminism’: the politics of reproduction and motherhood in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale,” Television & New Media, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 133-149. https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764231180312.
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Boyle, Amy, 2022, “Screening women’s trauma: constructing trauma for television in Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale,” Feminist Media Studies, vol. 23, no. 4. 1344-1360. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2032790.
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Ford, Jessica, and Amy Boyle, 2021, “The Emotional Detective: Gender, Violence and the Post-forensic TV Crime Drama,” [Special Issue: Female Detectives on TV edited by Tanya Horeck and Jessica Ford] MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, vol. 7. https://maifeminism.com/the-emotional-detective-gender-violence-and-the-post-forensic-tv-crime-drama/.
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Boyle, Amy, 2020, “‘They should have never given us uniforms if they didn’t want us to be an army’: The Handmaid’s Tale as transmedia feminism,” [Special Issue: Public Feminisms edited by Suzanna Danuta Walters, re-published in 2022 in Signs open access Resources on Abortion and Reproductive Justice] Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 45, no. 4. 845-870. https://doi.org/10.1086/707798.
Book Reviews
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Boyle, Amy, forthcoming, “Debating Authenticity: Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans Media, by Paige MacIntosh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2025,” New Review of Film and Television Studies.
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Boyle, Amy, 2025, “The New Audience for Old TV: Considering the Resurgent Popularity of The Sopranos, by Alexander H. Beare, London and New York, Routledge, 2025,” Continuum, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 679-682. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2518979
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Boyle, Amy, 2022, “Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry, Suzanne Scott (2019), New York: New York University Press,” Journal of Fandom Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 87-89. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs_00056_5.
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Boyle, Amy, 2019, “Women of Ice and Fire: Gender, Game of Thrones and Multiple Media Engagements, Anne Gjelsvik and Rikke Schubart (eds) (2016), New York and London: Bloomsbury,” [Special Issue: Screening Popular Culture edited by Elizabeth Ellison and Tess Van Hemert] The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 123-125. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc.8.1.123_5.
Public Commentaries
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Karageorgos, Effie and Amy Boyle, 2021, “Australian media is failing to cover domestic violence in the right way: new research,” The Conversation, 2 March. https://theconversation.com/australian-media-is-failing-to-cover-domestic-violence-in-the-right-way-new-research-155477.
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Boyle, Amy, 2020, “My favourite detective: Jessica Jones, a super-detective for the Marvel generation,” [solicited article for the “My favourite detective” series], The Conversation, 22 December. https://theconversation.com/my-favourite-detective-jessica-jones-a-super-detective-for-the-marvel-generation-149542.
I am currently serving as an Early Career Researcher (ECR) Representative on the Executive Committee for the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ).