Katarzyna Paszkiewicz

Katarzyna Paszkiewicz is Lecturer in English Philology at the Universitat de les Illes Balears and member of ADHUC–Research Center for Theory, Gender and Sexuality (Universitat de Barcelona). She holds a BA in English Philology (2008, UAM), an MA in Cultural Studies: Audiovisual Culture (2009, UAM) and a PhD in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities (2014, UB). Her primary research is in Film Studies, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies, with an emphasis on film genres and women’s cinema in the USA and Spain. She has published several book chapters and journal articles on Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers, Icíar Bollaín and Isabel Coixet. Most recently she has co-edited, with Mary Harrod, Women Do Genre in Film and Television (Routledge, 2017) and published her monographs Rehacer los géneros: Mujeres cineastas dentro y fuera de Hollywood (Icaria, 2017) and Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).