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Magdalena Grabias
Magdalena Grabias is an assistant professor and a deputy head of the Institute of Cultural Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. She received her Ph.D. in cultural studies in 2012. She specializes in film studies, Gothic studies, Dracula studies, literary translation and music journalism. She was the co-organizer of the Fourth World Dracula Congress in Dublin (2016) as well as numerous conferences in Poland. She is a co-founder of the international organization Children of the Night and a co-organizer of International Dracula Congress series. Her academic publications include books: Songs of Innocence and Experience: Romance in the Cinema of Frank Capra (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), Visual Culture: Art, Popular Culture and Digital Media (ed.) (Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2020), as well as numerous articles in English, Polish and Romanian propagating film, music and theatre viewed from the perspective of philosophy, semiotics, anthropology and popular culture. Over the last decade, her academic interest has been focused on Dracula and vampire studies, which resulted in a series of articles discussing the subject of literary and cinematic vampires and their meaning in contemporary culture. In 2019, she received the prestigious International Helion Award from the science fiction cultural association Helion in Timișoara, Romania.
Contact: Instytut Nauk o Kulturze, UMCS, Plac Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland.