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CFP for Edited Collection – Monstrous Moral Messengers: Supernatural Figures in Children’s Picture Books and Early Readings

May 30th, 2015 | Posted in children, monsters, morality, supernatural

CFP for Edited Collection: Monstrous Moral Messengers: Supernatural Figures in Children’s Picture Books and Early Readings Picture books and early readers carry all the weight of parental authority, and are essential tools in the learning process for our children. With their bright pictures, they perform their function of holding the child’s attention quite well, and […]

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Call for Presentations – Monstrous Geographies: Places and Spaces of Monstrosity

October 13th, 2014 | Posted in call for papers, monsters, monstrous

  Sunday 22nd March – Tuesday 24th March 2015, Lisbon, Portugal Call for Presentations This inter- and multidisciplinary conference focuses on the relationship between the monstrous and the geographic. We welcome proposals by academics, teachers, independent researchers, students, artists, NGOs and anyone interested in manifestations of monstrosity in space. Possible topics may include topics as […]

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Toronto Jewish Film Festival and Jewish Horror

May 1st, 2014 | Posted in horror, Jewish monsters, Judaism, monsters, religion

Carl Rosenberg, a reader of this blog, made me aware of an interesting facet of the 22nd Toronto Jewish Film Festival. It features a section on horror titled “The Search for a Jewish Horror Film: Golems, Dybbuks and Other Movie Monsters.” This is described as follows and features the following films: With a series of […]

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Lilith in Folklore and the Bible

March 26th, 2014 | Posted in folklore, Jewish monsters, Judaism, monsters, myths

A brief but interesting item in this post. In keeping up with ongoing elements and developments in biblical studies I came across a blog I hadn’t read before. It included a post titled “Lilith in the Bible and Jewish Folklore.” Readers may have heard of Lilith from Jewish folklore with the idea that she was […]

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Brown University Graduate Student Conference on the Monstrous and the Religious Imagination

January 23rd, 2014 | Posted in conference, fantasy, monster theory, monsters, monstrous, religion

Brown University is presenting an upcoming conference titled “Beasts Monsters, and the Fantastic in the Religious Imagination.” The schedule from the website: Friday, February 28, 2014 Keynote Address 6:30-7:30pm  Dinner Reception 7:30pm  Saturday, March 1, 2014 Breakfast 8am-9am I. Morning Session: Doing Things with Demons 9am-10:45am  “When a Bad Being Does Good Things: The Demon […]

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Titles of Interest: The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters

November 22nd, 2013 | Posted in cinema, literature, monsters, Titles of Interest

The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters, edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Ashgate, 2014) From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages. It […]

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Guillermo del Toro on his personal religion and monsters as metaphors

October 26th, 2013 | Posted in Guillermo del Toro, monsters, religion

Guillermo del Toro is one of the most interesting contemporary people working in genre. He brings a philosophical, mythical, and religious depth to reflection on the material as revealed in these video clips.

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Brown University Conference: Beasts, Monsters, and the Fantastic in the Religious Imagination

October 10th, 2013 | Posted in call for papers, fantasy, monster theory, monsters, monstrous

My friend, colleague, and co-editor with J. Ryan Parker of Joss Whedon and Religion (McFarland, 2013), made me aware of this call for papers for an intriguing conference at Brown University. It is titled “Beasts Monsters, and the Fantastic in the Religious Imagination.” From the website: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Hosted by the Department […]

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Monstrous Commercials

August 18th, 2013 | Posted in monsters, television, vampire, zombie
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John Edgar Browning: Speaking of Monsters

March 27th, 2013 | Posted in horror, monster theory, monsters, teratology

It was with great excitement that I heard about the book Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), edited by John Edgar Browning. This volume provides an in-depth scholarly exploration of a number of facets of teratology, the study of monsters. It took us a while to finish this interview, but Browning made […]

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