Professor Anja Louis PhD, FHEA, PGCLTHE, BA (Hons)
Professor of Transnational Popular Culture
Summary
I am Professor of Transnational Popular Culture and the university’s REF co-coordinator for UoA34 (Communication, Cultural and Media Studies). Firmly aligning with gender studies’ inherent motivation to turn knowledge into activism, I have published widely in the fields of gender, law and culture, critically framing popular culture as a catalyst for socio-political debates.
About
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). Subsequent studies analysed the representation of professional women in Spanish film and television and asked to what extent these on-screen professionals are indicative of wider issues of patriarchal crises. My teaching centres on Spanish Cultural Studies and intercultural competence in organisations.
Teaching
Sheffield Business School
Projects
Lived interculturality in HE
Subject Area
Spanish Cultural Studies
Courses Taught
BA Languages & Cultures with International Business
BA Languages & Cultures with TESOL
BA Languages & Cultures with Tourism
Modules Taught
DBA taught modules: cross-cultural research
Contemporary European Studies
Spanish Contemporary and Professional Studies
Intercultural Development
Interculturality in Practice
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- Culture and Creativity Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ Institute
I am currently working on two book projects with Dr Abigail Loxham (Liverpool): a monograph on Femininity and Feminism in Spanish TV Dramas (under contract with Palgrave) and an edited collection entitled Gender and Television in Iberia and Latin America (under contract with Bloomsbury).
Publications
Key Publications
Louis, A., & Loxham, A. (2024). Femininity and Feminism in Spanish TV Dramas. Palgrave Macmillan.
Louis, A., Subryan, A., & Westaby, C. (2023). . Law and Humanities.
Louis, A. (2022). . Modern Languages Open, 1 (7).
Louis, A. (2020). . Modern Languages Open.
Louis, A. (2020). . Entertainment and Sports Law Journal.
Louis, A., & Sharp, M. (Eds.). (2017). . Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge.
Louis, A., & Sharp, M. (Eds.). (2017). . Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge.
Louis, A. (2005). . Woodbridge: Tamesis Books.
Journal articles
Louis, A. (2018). . Estudios Romanicos, 27 (1), 33-48.
Louis, A. (2018). . Law and Humanities, 12 (1), 17-41.
Louis, A. (2012). . Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 89 (1), 87-104.
Louis, A. (2005). . Hispanic Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ Journal, 6 (1), 13-27.
Louis, A. (2004). . Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 81 (6), 765-783.
Louis, A. (2001). . Griffith Law Review, 10 (2), 211-224.
Louis, A. (1999). Carmen de Burgos and the Question of Divorce. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 5 (1), 49-63.
Book chapters
Louis, A. (2020). Mujeres en la televisión jurÃdica española. In RÃos Guardiola, M.G., Esteban Bernabé, E., & Hernández González, M.B. (Eds.) Creadoras de imágenes: Mujer y transmedialidad. (pp. 35-46). Vigo: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo
Louis, A. (2019). Carmen de Burgos, la revolucionaria legal de toda la vida. In Carmen de Burgos, Colombine, Hacia la modernidad. Junta de AndalucÃa
Louis, A., & Grantham, H. (2019). . In Akhgar, B., Bayerl, P.S., & Leventakis, G. (Eds.) Social Media Strategy in Policing: From Cultural Intelligence to Community Policing. (pp. 37-60). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing:
Louis, A. (2017). . In Louis, A., & Sharp, M. (Eds.) Multiple modernities: Carmen de Burgos, author and activist. (pp. 127-146). Abingdon: Routledge:
Louis, A., & Sharp, M.M. (2017). . In Louis, A., & Sharp, M. (Eds.) Multiple modernities: Carmen de Burgos, author and activist. (pp. 1-14). Abingdon: Routledge:
Louis, A. (2016). . In Robson, P., & Schulz, J. (Eds.) A transnational study of law and justice on TV. Oxford: Hart:
Louis, A. (2012). . In Law and Justice on the Small Screen. (pp. 347-359). Oxford: Hart:
Louis, A. (2010). Carmen de Burgos. In The Literary Enciclopedia.
Louis, A. (2009). TV Lawyers in 1980s Spain. In Asimow, M. (Ed.) Lawyers in your Living Room. American Bar Association
Louis, A. (2002). . In Labanyi, J. (Ed.) Constructing identity in contemporary Spain : theoretical debates and cultural practice. (pp. 94-112). Oxford: Oxford University Press:
Media
Hall, C., Louis, A., Rawsthorne, A., & Liew, P. (2014). . [dvd, online Video]. Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ:
Presentations
Louis, A. (2019). Mujeres en la televisión jurÃdica española (invited paper). Presented at: ‘Mujer, Prensa, y Comunicación’ Conference, Murcia University, 2019
Louis, A. (2018). Success Made in Spain (invited paper). Presented at: Watching the Transnational Detectives: Showcasing Identity and Internationalism on British Television’ Conference, Institute of Modern Languages Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ, London, 2018
Louis, A. (2018). Regenerating community policing: cultural intelligence as the way forward or California dreaming? Presented at: Critical Legal Conference, Milton Keynes, 2018
Louis, A. (2017). Screens of Justice: Spanish police dramas.
Louis, A. (2017). Modernidades multiples: Arte y Libertad.
Louis, A. (2017). Las modernidades múltiples de Carmen de Burgos (keynote). Presented at: Carmen de Burgos Anniversary Conference 'Arte y Libertad', Murcia University, 2017
Louis, A. (2017). A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV. Presented at: Annual conference of the Association of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Stanford Law School, Stanford CA, 2017
Louis, A. (2016). What Now? Modern Languages in a post-Brexit World.
Louis, A. (2016). Private Pain vs Public Shame.
Louis, A. (2016). Female Lawyers as Epithets of Powerful Career Women.
Louis, A. (2014). Burgos's 'New Women: La mujer moderna y sus derechos (1927)'.
Louis, A. (2014). Cultural Intelligence: From Theory to Practice, From Classroom to Year Abroad in the Workplace.
Louis, A. (2014). Burgos’s New Women: La mujer moderna y sus derechos (keynote). Presented at: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, University of Kentucky, 2014
Louis, A. (2009). Imagining Divorce in Post-Franco Spain.
Louis, A. (2009). The Love of Law vs the Law of Love: Sáenz de Heredia's Female Lawyers.
Louis, A. (2009). Patriarchy in Crisis: Female Lawyers under Franco.
Louis, A. (2009). Lawyers and Democracy in Anillos de Oro/Wedding Rings.
Louis, A. (2008). Real or Imagined Loneliness of Abused Women.
Louis, A. (2008). Durmiendo con su enemigo: Representaciones de violencia doméstica en el cine español/Sleeping with the Enemy: Gender Violence in Spanish Cinema (keynote, guest lectures and workshops).
Louis, A. (2007). Women, Melodrama and the Law (invited paper). Presented at: Hispanic Studies Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ Seminar, University of Cork
Louis, A. (2007). Representation of Female Lawyers under Franco (invited paper). Presented at: Modern Languages Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ Seminar, University of Birmingham
Louis, A. (2007). Burgos’s New Women (invited paper). Presented at: International Symposium on ‘Women, Literature and the Public Sphere, Spain 1900-1940, Royal Holloway, University of London
Louis, A. (2005). Whatever Next? Giving Women Equal Rights in Early Twentieth-Century Spain (invited paper). Presented at: Disciplining Discourses: Conflict, Conversation and Issues of Authority in Spanish Cultural and Intellectual Life’ Conference, University of Cambridge, 2005
Louis, A. (2002). Whose Melodrama is it Anyway? Women and the Law in Burgos’s novellas (invited paper). Presented at: 'Alternative Discourses in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: Intellectuals, Dissent, and Subcultures of Mind and Body’ Conference, University of Cambridge, 2002
Other publications
Louis, A. (2009). Take my Eyes: Gender Violence in Spanish Culture. Liverpool: Iberian and Latin American Studies
Other activities
I am on the editorial board of the International Journal of Law and Society.
I am external examiner at the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Nottingham.
Postgraduate supervision