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Miss Justyna Galazka
PhD Student

Research area(s)

  • Young Adult writing,
  • Dystopian writing,
  • Fantasy writing.
  • Story re-telling (e.g. myths, fairy tales, legends).
  • Female portrayal in Young Adult fantasy and dystopia.
  • Gender stereotypes within the genres.
  • Slavic and East Asian folklore writing 
  • Construction of dystopian reality

Research Interests

In her research, Miss Galazka analyses the socio-political structure of past and modern totalitarian regimes mainly in Europe and East Asia. Her written project is a Young Adult dystopia set in a communist-inspired reality. Her main area of research is the concept of freedom within dystopian writing. Other areas of research include female empowerment, religion as a tool of oppression, and Slavic folklore.