Ambiguous Selves

Barbara Braid is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Literature and New Media, Szczecin University, Poland. Her research interests include neo-Victorian fiction, gender performativity, gothicism and lesbian fiction. She is currently working on a monograph on the motif of female insanity in Victorian and neo-Victorian fiction. Ewa Glapka currently works at the Institute of Linguistics, Szczecin University, Poland. Her research interests include discourse and gender, media discourse, discursive psychology and qualitative sociology. In 2014 she published the book Reading Bridal Magazines from a Critical Discursive Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan). Her current research concerns discursive constructions of femininity in the socio-culturally heterogeneous context of post-apartheid South Africa.Malwina Siemiątkowska is an academic teacher in the Institute of Literature and New Media, Szczecin University, Poland. Her research interests revolve around issues of historically marginalized groups in Welsh novels in the context of the Welsh as both a minority language and culture.