A Review of Variable Objects: Shakespeare and Speculative Appropriation, edited by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

Magdalena Cieślak is Associate 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).