2023

Prace magisterskie

• 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"

2020

Prace licencjackie

• The motif of war in J. Boyne's 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'.

Prace magisterskie

• The Female Gothic Convention in the Fiction of A. M. Barnard

2019

Prace licencjackie

• 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”

Prace magisterskie

• Confining Domesticity and Female Self in Shirley Jackson’s Short Fiction

2017

Prace licencjackie

• The Magical Realism of Stephen King's The Green Mile
• Contemporary Monsters: Consumerism and Greed in Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted
• The Postmodern Vampire in Suzy McKee Charnas' "The Unicorn Tapestry"
• A Motive of the Feline Avenger in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" and Stephen King's "The Cat from Hell"
• Imaginative Empathy and Postmodern Satire in George Saunders' Selected Stories
• Witches and Feminism: Modern-Day Witches in John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick
• Portraits of Depression in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation
• Cat as an Allegory in "The White Cat" by Joyce C. Oates and "The Black Cat" by Edgar A. Poe
• Between Reality and Fiction - the Autobiographical Elements in Stephen King's Selected Works
• Carnivalesque Spaces in E. A. Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" and Thomas Ligotti's "The Last Feast of Harlequin"

2016

Prace licencjackie

• The Theme of Manipulation in Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game"
• Replacing reality with simulation in Don DeLillo's "White Noise"
• Feminine Madness in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in The Castle
• When the past haunts the present - the heritage of slavery in Toni Morrison's "Beloved"
• "And whatever walked there, walked alone": The evil image of the house in Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House"
• The Southern Grotesque in Carson McCullers' The Ballad of The Sad Cafe: A new approach
• The Glamorous Gatsby: Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F.S. Fitzgerald's novel
• The African-American bildungsroman in Claude Brown's "Manchild in the Promised Land"
• The Lovecraftian Gothic in Thomas Ligotti's "Nethescurial"
• Gothic Landscapes in "Metzengerstein" by E. A. Poe, "The Dunwich Horror" by H. P. Lovecraft and "Crouch End" by S. King
• (Un)homely spaces in selected poems of W.S. Merwin
• The Haunted Hotel in Stephen King's 'The Shining'
• Southern Gothic elements in Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men

2015

Prace licencjackie

• (Im)Perfect Paradise. Eatonville in 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' by Zora Neale Hurston.
• New York's upper classes during the Jazz Age in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Beautiful and Damned".
• The patriarchal house as a symbol of entrapment in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and "Woman Hollering Creek"
• Hybrid form and Native American identity in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine.
• Gothic house revisited in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves.
• (In)Visibility and African-American identity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
• Forms of freedom and confinement in William Gibson's Neuromancer
• The experience of the Holocaust in Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" and "Rosa".
• 'Quiet as it's kept' - internalized racism in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye'
• Spatial dimensions of the inner and outer journey in Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” and “Outer Dark”
• America, Americans and Paisanos: The (Re)Vision of American national myths in John Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat"
• The House as the Site of the Uncanny in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables"
• Existential scepticism in Thomas Ligotti's "The Shadow, The Darkness".

2011

Prace magisterskie

• Symbolism in Margaret Atwood's writing.
• Levels of Entrapment in Joseph Heller's "Catch 22", "Something Happened" and "Closing Time".
• Unreliability in Nabokov's Writings: the Case of "Lolita" and "Despair".
• The Motif of the Vampire in "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris, "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, and "The Vampire Diaries" by Lisa Jane Smith.
• Man in the House: the Image of Man in Selected Novels by American Female Writers.
• Constructing Identity trough Language in Gayl Jones's "Corregidora", Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and Sapphire's "Push".
• Contemporary Gothic in "Lullaby", "Diary", and "Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk.
• Forms of oppression and struggle for independence in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" and Denise Chavez's "Face of an Angel".
• Personality Disorders in Vladimir Nabokov's Works