Olga Mek
Affiliation: olgamek787@gmail.com
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Black Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires
I got a degree in the Education of Art from the Jan Dlugosz University in Częstochowa (2010) and also in Instrumental Studies (the piano class) from the same university. In 2013, I completed a Music Therapy programme at the Academy of Music in Wrocław. I also completed a doctoral interdisciplinary programme in Humanities at the University of Warsaw (2019). In 2022, I completed postgraduate studies specializing in the History of Music and Contemporary Musical Culture at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences.