Review of Journalism and Celebrity by Bethany Usher, Routledge 2020, 216 pp. ISBN: 9780367200886, £36.99.
Anna Maria Karczewska
University of Białystok, PolandAnna Maria Karczewska is a graduate in English and Spanish Philology, she is Assistant Professor at the University of Białystok where she teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature. She has a Ph.D. in cultural studies from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS) in Warsaw. She has written a monograph New Journalism as a Window onto the 1960s Counterculture (2017), she has also published articles related to her current research interests that revolve around Latin American culture and Latin American literature.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8644-4723
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University of Białystok, Poland
Anna Maria Karczewska is a graduate in English and Spanish Philology, she is Assistant Professor at the University of Białystok where she teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature. She has a Ph.D. in cultural studies from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS) in Warsaw. She has written a monograph New Journalism as a Window onto the 1960s Counterculture (2017), she has also published articles related to her current research interests that revolve around Latin American culture and Latin American literature.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8644-4723
