e78: Monster Studies-201: Course Syllabus

Happy October! it’s the beginning of Halloween month so we have something a little special. Just over a year ago, we had a show where we invited a bunch of academic friends who teach comics and we developed a course syllabus for a theoretical comics studies course on the air. It was a lot of fun and we came up with a list that none of us would have done on our own. Well, we decided it’d be fun to do that again, but this time with another of our favorite pop culture genres: MONSTERS! Mav and Hannah are joined by Heather Duda and Michael Chemers from our previous monster studies shows as well as returning guest John Darowski and new guest Nicole Aceto to develop the MONSTER SYLLABUS (muhahahahah)!!!! What books should we be reading? What movies should we be watching? What is a monster anyway? We’re going to work it all out. Join us and let us know what you think. Oh… and fair warning, there’s a monster at the end of this podcast. Citations and Links * This episode’s Call for Comments* Course Syllabus Texts:* Required Monster Theory Texts* Monster Theory: Reading Culture by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen* The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous edited by Asa Simon Mittman * Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach* Required Monster Story Texts* Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus* Frankenstein by Mary Shelley* Paradise Lost by John Milton* Carrie by Stephen King* The Monk by Matthew Lewis* Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula by Valdimar Ásmundsson and Bram Stoker* Beloved by Toni Morrison* Zone One by Colson Whitehead* The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories by Angela Carter* The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen* Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak*