Minding Justice: Mental Health and Criminal Law

WDB Lecture Series

Dr. Kate Bonnici

Minding Justice: Mental Health and Criminal Law
Wednesday February 11, 2026
Surfboard Room | 12 PM

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.