Dr Amy Boyle

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• In progress: Boyle, Amy, “Beyond abortion: towards continuums of reproductive violence and justice onscreen,” Feminist Theory.

• In progress: Boyle, Amy, Sue Turnbull and Marion McCutcheon, “The White Lotus Effect: the mixed messages, ethics and outcomes of HBO’s series,” Critical Studies in Television.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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/.

• 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   

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.