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Biographical note
Paige Elizabeth Allen is a Brooklyn-based writer, researcher, and theatre-maker. She holds an MSt in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (University of Oxford) and a B.A. in English (Princeton University). Her writing appears in Fantastika Journal, Oxford Research in English, and Milestones in Musical Theatre (Routledge). Paige is co-authoring Feminist Approaches to Musical Theatre (Bloomsbury) with Stacy Wolf. Her master’s dissertation explored queer, posthuman haunted houses in the works of Shirley Jackson and Daisy Johnson.
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