dr Patrycja Antoszek

Gothicism and Racial Ambiguity in Philip Roth’s "The Human Stain" and John Gregory Brown’s "Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery"
Contemporary Revisions of "Bluebeard" in Jim Thompson’s "The Killer Inside Me" and Bret Easton Ellis’ "American Psycho"
Rewriting Reality through Fantasy in Brandon Sanderson's "Mistborn" Trilogy and N.K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season"
Female Insanity in Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" and Shirley Jackson's "The Bird's Nest"
Female Gothic and Subversion of Domesticity in Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" and Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping"
Contemporary Narratives of Haunting in "A Head Full of Ghosts" by Paul Tremblay and "Home Before Dark" by Riley Sager
Toxic Mothers and Troubled Daughters in “Sharp Objects” by Gillian Flynn and “White Oleander” by Janet Fitch
An Anatomy of a Murder: The Mother-Son Relationship in Robert Bloch's "Psycho" and Lionel Shriver's "We Need to Talk About Kevin"

Gothic Architecture in Neil Gaiman's "Coraline"
Feminism and the Picture of Women in Selected Contemporary Versions of "Cinderella"
The Concept Of Liminality in "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
The Ghostly Double: the Doppelgänger Motif in Stephen King’s "The Dark Half"
Haunted Spaces in Mike Flanagan's Film Version of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting od Hill House
Gothic Elements in Robert Galbraith's Career of Evil
The Magical Realism of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad
Childhood Trauma and Race in Toni Morrison’s ’’God Help the Child”