Lisa Funnell

Lisa Funnell is an award-winning author, media educator, and consultant specializing in equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and media representation. She has published 11 books on such topics as gender and geopolitics in James Bond, Chinese warrior women, transnational cinema, and the sexual violence on screen. Her first monograph Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star (2014) won the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies. Her second monograph Geographies Genders, and Geopolitics of James Bond (2017) co-written with Klaus DoddsUS won a 2025 International Impact Book Award. Finally, her anthology Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood (2022), co-edited with Ralph Beliveau, was awarded the 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.