The primary questions of this course, from what I can tell, have been “what is a monster?” and “why are monsters important in telling...

In reading Mexican Gothic, I was interested in the description of Howard Doyle’s character, and in how that description related to the...

A major question about ‘Her Body And Other Parties’ by Carmen Maria Machado that we’ve tried to address in class is the question of...

What struck me about The Husband Stitch, the opening story of Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado was the apparent lack of...

From Dusk Till Dawn utilizes three major genres: the Western genre, which takes place in the American southwest and in Mexico, the...

On Tuesday in class we discussed the significance of Arlene’s perspective towards the end of the book; questions of why her chapter was...

In Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s essay Monster Culture (Seven Theses) he lays out how the genre of monster fiction—or horror—has historically...

The Lost Book of Adana Moreau focuses—as the title would suggest—on the idea of missing or conflicting information. The timeline of the...

While reading this novel, I’ve been really preoccupied—as the narrator is, as well—with the depiction of sex and bodies, and how those...

The concept of “fuku” as a monster takes the knowledge of monsters that we’ve consumed through Cohen and Halberstam’s writings and makes...