Dr Alison Taylor

Alison Taylor is an Associate Professor at Bond University’s Transformation CoLab where she teaches film studies and ethics. She is the Coordinator of CORE11-012 Responsibility, Integrity and Civic Discourse, a subject taken by every Bond University student, and FITV12-211 Sex, Love and the Movies. Her research examines violence, ethics and representation in transgressive European art cinema. She is the author of Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema (Edinburgh University Press 2017), Possession (Liverpool University Press 2022), and the co-author of Nicolas Winding Refn: Neon, Evil, and Expressionism (forthcoming June 2027 with SUNY Press). Alison serves on the advisory board of Film Matters, an international journal dedicated to undergraduate film scholarship, and is a proud member of the Ally Network and Bond’s representative on University Unity, the Queensland LGBTQI+ university consortium.