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Abigail Jenkins studies television popular culture, focusing on feminist studies of media with an emphasis on marginalized identities and embodied affects. Her current research is centered on the representation, performance, and discussion of fat and plus-size bodies in British and American television. Her work takes an intersectional feminist perspective, exploring the intersections of identity in contemporary screen media. Coming from a film studies background, Abigail employs autoethnographic inquiry and feminist textual analysis across a range of television texts. Key areas of her interest include reality TV, millennial television, representations of fatness, queer studies, and gender studies. Abigail has a wealth of experience applying intersectional research and teaching practices. She co-developed an online Master's course for Gender History in 2023 and leads the Widening Participation Summer School Film and Television course. Currently, she is supervising MRes student Phebe Della Corte and teaches various courses including Screen Analysis, Queer Film and Television, and Television Drama at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow, UK
Teaching and researching in Film and Television Studies.