Grande Dame Guignol at 60: A Review of Crazy Old Ladies: The Story of Hag Horror by Caroline Young (BearManor Media, 2022)

Tomasz Fisiak

doi:10.18778/2083-2931.13.27

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Tomasz Fisiak University of Lodz https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5514-1287

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Tomasz Fisiak, University of Lodz

Tomasz Fisiak is Assistant Professor in the Department of British Literature and Culture, Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz, Poland. His monograph She-(d)evils? The Construction of a Female Tyrant as a Cultural Critique was published in 2020 by Peter Lang. His publications cover topics such as feminist auto/biographies, Gothic fiction, horror cinema in the 1960s and the 1970s, and popular/pulp culture. He is Managing Editor of Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture. He is also a member of the Board of Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE). Currently, he works as a team member of the project Word, Sound and Image: Intertextuality in Music Videos no. 2019/33/B/HS2/00131 financed by National Science Centre in Poland.

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