Abigail Loxham

Abigail has a PhD from the University of Cambridge where she also completed an MPhil and BA. She has worked as a lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the Universities of Manchester and Hull and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Abigail has published widely on Spanish and Catalan cinema and television with a focus on memory, national identity, gender and feminism. Her monograph 'Cinema at the Edges: New Readings of Julio Medem, Bigas Luna and Jose Luis Guerin' is published by Berghahn Books. She is co-author, with Prof. Anja Louis, Sheffield Hallam, of 'Femininity and Feminism in Spanish TV Dramas' (2024, Palgrave) and co-editor of 'Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America: Identities and Social Change (2025, Bloomsbury). Her current project focuses on mediating feminism in contemporary Spanish popular culture.