Posted 26 November 2025
On 29 October, Prof. Sally Faulkner delivered her Inaugural lecture of the endowed Chair at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.
The lecture was focused on Spanish cinema and television, asking: what happens when we re-focus screen histories through the lens of gender and feminism? Prof. Faulkner discussed the period of Spain’s Transition from dictatorship to democracy over the 1960s and 1970s by looking beyond the director to ‘below-the-line’ roles, often invisible to the viewer, but critical to creativity; such as editors. Prof. Faulkner’s work as part of the ‘Leading Women’ research project looks at new archives and looking aslant at known archives, as well as using interviews and close analysis of texts. The lecture was followed by a response by Professor Hilary Owen FBA and Professor Núria Triana Toribio, Professor Faulkner’s collaborators on the ‘Leading Women’ research project.
Left to right: Prof. Núria Triana Toribio, Prof. Sally Faulkner, Prof. Hilary Owen of the Leading Women project
Leading Women in Portuguese and Spanish Cinema and Television,1970-1980