
Dr Theresa Trimmel
BA, MA, PhD
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Research interests
I am a film and television scholar and my research specialisms draw from across the range of production, audience and textual approaches in contemporary Film and Television Studies, and include contemporary global television production and reception, creative industry studies, and gender, race and sexuality representation in both textual and paratextual discourses.
My research interests particularily lie in:
- popular television
- television authorship
- the representation of gender, race, sexuality
- equality and diversity in the film and television industries (in front of and behind the camera)
- the shifting production contexts of global television and the transition to digital television and streaming
- advertising, branding, and marketing of film and television productions
- reception discourses
- the representation of women's health and motherhood
- celebrity culture in the digital age
- the manifestations of feminism in popular culture
My research outputs are also related to my broader research into modalities of gender, sexuality and race in the production and reception of popular television.
I am currently adapting my doctoral thesis into a monograph under contract with Routledge, for publication in 2025 titled When Women Run the Show: Female Authorship, Feminism, and Contemporary Women-Centred Television. The book explores female authorship and representations of gender, racial, and sexual identity in US television since 2012.
I am currently also co-editing the collection TV and Empathy (Palgrave, 2025).
I am a co-investigator on two research projects:
- “RICORS: Improving Women’s Health and Doctor-Patient Relationships through Audiovisual Content and Generative AI-Driven Technologies”
- "Brexit, Nationalism(S) And Post-Empire: Culture Wars And The Constructions Of Identity In Contemporary British Narratives".
Both projects are funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
BREXIT, NACIONALISMO(S) Y POST-IMPERIO: GUERRAS CULTURALES Y LAS CONSTRUCCIONES DE LA IDENTIDAD EN NARRATIVAS BRITANICAS CONTEMPORANEAS
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Film and TelevisionDates
01/01/2024 to 31/12/2028
Publications
Selected publications
16/01/2025Women's vulnerability behind the scenes of British film and television
Women, Organizations and Vulnerability Global Archetypes
Roundtable on women’s authorship and adaptation in contemporary television
New Review of Film and Television Studies
Women on and Behind Chinese Entertainment Television: De/constructing the Female Authorship of National Treasure
Communication, Culture and Critique
TV’S NEW SEXUAL NARRATIVES? UNCONVENTIONAL SEX AND INTIMACY IN TRANSPARENT AND BROAD CITY
MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture
Recent publications
16/01/2025Women's vulnerability behind the scenes of British film and television
Women, Organizations and Vulnerability Global Archetypes
Roundtable on women’s authorship and adaptation in contemporary television
New Review of Film and Television Studies
Women on and Behind Chinese Entertainment Television: De/constructing the Female Authorship of National Treasure
Communication, Culture and Critique
TV’S NEW SEXUAL NARRATIVES? UNCONVENTIONAL SEX AND INTIMACY IN TRANSPARENT AND BROAD CITY
MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture