Minding Justice: Mental Health and Criminal Law

WDB Lecture Series

Dr. Kate Bonnici

Minding Justice: Mental Health and Criminal Law
Wednesday February 11, 2026
Noon Surfboard Room | Partnership with Pepperdine Libraries

Dr. Kate Bolton Bonnici is an assistant professor of English at Pepperdine University, where she directs the Social Action and Justice Colloquium. Bonnici is an interdisciplinary scholar who recently published A True & Just Record, about the English witch trials; her debut poetry collection, Night Burial, won the 2020 Colorado Prize for Poetry. She previously worked as a litigator in Alabama and California. Bonnici earned a JD at New York University, followed by an MFA in poetry at the University of California, Riverside and a PhD in English from the University of California, Los Angeles.