Reading Contemporary TV Series

Miłosz Wojtyna – Assistant Professor at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. He specializes in narratology and communication theory. His current research is concerned with virtual reality and the simulacra of Internet culture.Barbara Miceli – Assistant Professor at the University of Gdańsk. She specializes in the relationship between fact and fiction in contemporary American novel and TV.Roksana Zgierska – Assistant Professor at the University of Gdańsk. She specializes in contemporary narrative theory with the emphasis on the role of the reader, intertextuality and transmedia.

• Aesthetics, Themes, and Reception of 21st-century TV series. Subject matters discussed: Narrative Conventions and Experimentation; Visual Complexity and the Spectacle; Seriality and the Segmented Experience of Narrative; Representations of Female Identity, Representation of Race and Ethnicity, Dystopian Futures and (Not Too) Fictional Presents: Living the Covid-19 Pandemic; Reader/Viewer and the Text; Watching is the New Reading: Defining Reader’s Competences; Multimodal TV Series