Contributors

Delilah Bermudez Brataas is an Associate Professor of English at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research interests consider aspects of gender in utopia from its earliest expressions in early modern literature to its contemporary adaptations in science fiction and fantasy, particularly in graphic novels and film. She has focused on the works of Margaret Cavendish, and William Shakespeare in adaptation and performance. Her most recent articles include “The Anguish of Youth in Film Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet” appeared in Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet and “‘Let this Deadly Draught purge clean my Soul from Sin’: Poisons and Remedies in Margaret Cavendish’s Drama” appeared in Poisons on the Early Modern Stage, both in 2023.

Magdalena Cieślak is Professor in the Department of English Studies in Drama, Theatre and Film at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz, Poland. She specializes in Renaissance drama, especially Shakespeare, and the relationships between literature and contemporary popular media in the context of cultural studies. She works in the areas of cultural materialism, feminism, gender studies, queer theory and posthumanism, and researches the intersections of literature and media in those theoretical contexts. She is the author of Screening Gender in Shakespeare’s Comedies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).

Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at the Department of the British and Commonwealth Studies at the Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Lodz, where she teaches literary and cultural studies. Her main fields of research are Shakespeare in Poland, history of monstrosity and cultural history of emotions. Dr Kowalcze-Pawlik is a board member of the Polish Shakespeare Society, where he has been serving as vice president since 2018. She is also an active member of the British, American, European and International Shakespeare Societies (BSA, SAA, ESRA, ISA) as well as the American Renaissance Society (RSA); she belongs to the International Society for Translation and Intercultural Research (IATIS) and the scientific groups “Shakespeare in Education” (NTNU, Trondheim) and “Shakespeare in Culture” (University of Warsaw). Most recently she has published with Multicultural Shakespeare, Theatralia and The Polish Review.