Link to the meeting (MS Teams).
The event is organized under the patronage of the Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz. The lecture will be in English.
Dr Katarzyna Ancuta (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) is a Cultural Studies scholar specialising in Gothic/Horror Studies. Her research interests oscillate around the interdisciplinary contexts of contemporary Gothic/Horror (from popular fiction, film and video, multimedia and performance art, theatre, music and dance, comics and graphic novels, to fashion and alternative lifestyles) currently with a strong Asian focus. She is the author of Where Angels Fear to Hover: Between the Gothic Disease and the Meataphysics of Horror (2005) and her recent publications include contributions to Neoliberal Gothic (2017), The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (2017), B-Movie Gothic (2018), Twenty-first-century Gothic (2019) and The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts (2019). She also co-edited three special journal issues on Thai (2014) and Southeast Asian (2015) horror film, and Tropical Gothic (2019), and a collection on Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide (2018). She is currently working on a book on Asian Gothic, and editing two collections on South Asian Gothic and Southeast Asian Gothic.
