She has a PhD in Literature from Szeged University and a DEA in Semiology from Université Paris 7. Her research interests include intermedial cultural representations, the post-semiotics of the embodied subject, interfacings of Victorian and postmodern fantastic imagination, gender studies, women’s art, and children’s literature. She authored a book on Angela Carter’s body-texts, and (co)edited collections on postmodern reinterpretations of fairy tales, the literary fantastic, the iconology of law and order, and the cultural history of Continental European freak shows. Email: Presences and Absences – Transdisciplinary Essays