César F. Más Sánchez is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the English Department at the University of Alicante, where he earned his PhD on the reimagining of the fairy-tale witch in Gregory Maguire’s Oz fiction. At this university, he obtained a BA in English Studies in 2019 and a MA in Literary Studies (MaEsL) in 2020. He has also completed a three-month academic visit at the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction.

His main research focus on fairy-tale retellings through a gendered lens, with particular attention to representations of the “bad” woman. Specifically, he examines the fairy tale’s treatment of themes such as the equation between ugliness and wickedness, the vilification of the deviant woman, and the sanctions imposed on women’s transgressions. In addition, he has a keen interest in twenty-first-century film adaptations of fairy tales, the representation of witches in Western culture, and the Disney universe.