Anja Louis completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Hispanic Studies at Birkbeck College (University of London). She is Professor of Transnational Pop Culture at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is REF coordinator and member of the research leadership team. She has previously worked at the Universities of Sheffield, New York and Suffolk/Boston. She has published widely in the fields of gender studies, law and popular culture. Her monograph Women and the Law: Carmen de Burgos, an Early Feminist is a seminal study on the Spanish feminist Carmen de Burgos. She has also co-edited a collection of essays that brings together leading international specialists of Burgos's work (Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist, Routledge, 2017). More recently, her research projects examine the representation of female lawyers and law enforcement officers in film and television.
Abigail Loxham completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Cambridge,UK. She is a Reader in Hispanic Film Studies at the University of Liverpool and has previously worked at the Universities of Hull, Queensland and Manchester. She has published on cinema from Spain with a focus on Catalonia, gender and Spanish film, television and memory and more recently gender and postfeminism in Spanish TV drama. More recently her focus has been on popular mediations of feminism in contemporary Spanish culture with a focus on celebrity feminist writers, creators, actors and podcasters.