text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko, photographs by Paweł Rutkowski Last month, we had the pleasure of hosting another From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria conference. It was our eighth such event, but also, in some ways, the first. It was the first conference organised by us as a research group. For many years, we had been […]
text by Dorota Babilas The University of Dundee will be hosting The Year of Gothic Women conference on 29-31 August. One of the QAQV members, Dorota Babilas, will be there with “Musicians, Models, and Other Monsters: Gothic Divas in George Du Maurier’s Trilby, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Gaston Leroux’s Le Fantȏme de l’Opéra.” In the words […]
Text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko The past is textual. It is constantly being read and reread, written and rewritten. De- and reconstructed, it may be deformed and dismissed or reclaimed and made redemptive. Despite the impossibility of its impartial examination, a spectre of objectivity still looms over many an approach to its analysis, just like the fidelity […]