Sally Faulkner is Cambridge’s new 1933 Professor of Spanish, having previously held a personal chair in Hispanic Studies and Film Studies at the University of Exeter.
Professor Faulkner read French and Spanish as an undergraduate at Cambridge, where she was among the first students to study the then final year 'European Film' paper (now we have both the 'European Film' and 'Cinema and the Political' papers, as well as the 'Ibero-American Cinema' paper in the Spanish and Portuguese section). She was also awarded a MPhil in European literature, and PhD in Spanish at Cambridge.
Professor Faulkner's research spans both Spanish-and Portuguese- language cinema and television. She is currently Principal Investigator of the 5-year Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant Leading Women in Spanish and Portuguese Film and Television, 1970-1980.
The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé: Feminism and Francoism is the first English monograph on this brilliant yet underappreciated Spanish director. This book seeks both to write the history of Bartolomé’s extant filmography, and speculate about censored and un-filmed work, thereby fashioning a new way of writing a feminist creative life in film. By focusing on Spanish-language cinema of the 1960s-90s, the period when feminism, like democracy, was re-born and seemingly consolidated in Spain, the study brings historical depth and transnational reach to current debates in the wake of #MeToo.
The book launch will be held at McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus, on Wednesday the 23rd of October, 5pm.
