Dr Barbara Braid
barbara.braid@usz.edu.pl
Dr Barbara Braid is Assistant Professor in the English Institute at Szczecin University, Poland. In years 2010-2015 she was Conference Leader for the Femininities & Masculinities Global Project at Interdisciplinary.Net. She is currently working on two edited volumes on gender issues in literature, film and the media, and a monograph on the motifs of female insanity in selected Victorian and neo-Victorian novels.
RESEARCH FOCUS
Neo-Victorian studies, adaptation studies, the gothic, biofiction, popular culture, queer and gender studies
TEACHING FOCUS
Introduction to Literature, Gothic Fiction, Neo-Victorian Adaptation, American Literature
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Braid, Barbara. “The Frankenstein Meme: Penny Dreadful and The Frankenstein Chronicles as Adaptations.” Open Cultural Studies 1.1 (2017): 232-243.
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Braid, Barbara. “A psychiatrist as a detective: Laszlo Kreizler, Stratham Younger and Max Liebermann.” Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko, ed. Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture: Beyond Sherlock Holmes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 91-112.
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Braid, Barbara. “Gothic subversions of heterosexual matrix in Sarah Waters’ Affinity.” Agnieszka Łowczanin and Dorota Wiśniewska, eds. All That Gothic. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2014, 184-191.
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Braid, Barbara. “What haunts Hundred’s Hall? Transgression in Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger.” Fabiszak, Jacek, Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka and Bartosz Wolski, eds. Crossroads in Literature and Culture. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2013, 135-145.
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Braid, Barbara. “Victorian Panopticon: Confined Spaces and Imprisonment in Chosen Neo-Victorian Novels.” Andrzej Ciuk and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, eds. Exploring Space: Spatial Notions in Cultural, Literary and Language Studies; Volume 1: Space in Cultural and Literary Studies. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, 74 – 82.
