Dr Abigail Loxham

Personal Statement

Abigail Loxham 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. She is an honorary fellow at the Institute for Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. She has published on Spanish and Catalan cinema and television with a particular interest in the intersections between memory, material culture and its representation in documentary cinema. Her monograph 'Cinema at the Edges: New Readings of Julio Medem, Bigas Luna and Jose Luis Guerin' is published by Berghahn Books. She has also published on feminism and Spanish media. She would welcome applications from PhD candidates working in any of these areas.