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Magdalena Cieślak
Magdalena Cieślak is a professor in the Department of English Studies in Drama, Theatre and Film at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Łódź, Poland. She is also a member of the International Shakespeare Studies Centre, an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary academic team whose aim is to conduct research on Shakespeare’s works and his presence in Polish and global culture. She teaches courses in British literature, Medieval and Renaissance literature, literary theory and adaptation theory. 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 and queer theory and researches the ways in which cinema and theatre address politically and culturally subversive elements of Shakespeare’s plays.
Contact: Department of English Studies in Drama, Theatre and Film, Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź, Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Łódź, Poland.