DR NONIE MAY

Email
nonie.may@unimelb.edu.au
Nonie May is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society from the University of Melbourne.
Nonie May is a Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research mobilizes feminist approaches to traditional film theories, to examine poetic cinematic form and ethical modes of bodily address. Her doctoral dissertation, in Cinema Studies from the University of Melbourne, was nominated for the Vice Chancellor’s Prize. Recent publications include a book chapter entitled ‘Written on the Body’ in The UnDead Child (Collected Edition, Ed. Debbie Olson & Craig Martin, 2024); and the prize-winning article ‘An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl]’ for Senses of Cinema (MIFF Dossier, 2022). Her forthcoming book is titled Sight, Sound, Touch: The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2025).
Nonie previously worked as a Researcher Project Coordinator at the Monash node of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision Making and Society. She has also worked as a Research Project Coordinator for The Re-Worlding Chinese Transnationalisms Symposium, and as a Research Assistant for the Research Unit in Public Cultures at the University of Melbourne.