My research is firmly grounded in Cultural Studies in its openness to interdisciplinarity and its celebration of popular culture.

My monograph Women and the Law: Carmen de Burgos, an Early Feminist is a seminal study on the Spanish feminist. I have also co-edited a collection of essays that brings together world-leading and internationally emerging scholars who offer new readings of Burgos’s pivotal position in European feminist thought (Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist).

Most recently, I co-wrote a book with Dr Abigail Loxham (Liverpool) entitled Femininity and Feminism in Spanish TV Dramas. As the first of its kind in English, this monograph examines how popular culture, and television drama in particular, intervenes in social debates both in Spain and transnationally on streaming services. All dramas analysed foreground female stories, female subjects and, in many cases, redefine and interpret key moments in the development of national gender politics. Our intention is to mainstream Spanish television studies and demonstrate its innovative and varied approach to gender politics. 

This productive partnership has also produced an edited collection entitled Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America: Identities and Social Change.  Ground-breaking in its interdisciplinarity (Television, Modern Languages, Gender and Queer Studies) and the first of its kind in English, this collection compiles original scholarship on TV from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Formats discussed range from the telenovela, melodrama, historical drama, heist narratives and the thriller to hybridisation of genres, and reality TV. The creative process is analysed in chapters with a focus on female scriptwriters, showrunners and directors. Key to the book’s approach is inclusivity and intersectionality examined alongside other identities as part of a network of innovative practices that address and interrogate representational practices through this medium. There is a focus on close textual analysis and critical theories of media and gender, as well as exploration of recent industrial changes and interviews with those working in this industry.