Monsters and Their Humans

Humanity has long imagined monstrous transformations of ourselves. What do these creatures mean to us, historically and today? What do we think we are becoming? Investigates the supernatural in popular culture through vampires and zombies. Places them in the context of our imagination of the divine through history and ethnography, and also alongside our intimate problems of managing sex, gender, race, and class. The archives of religions, psychologies, philosophy, film, TA, and novels provide rich source material, Requires a short midterm essay and a longer final project, while posting to a forum most weeks.

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Spring 2022

1
Angela Zito
TR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM 25W4 C-20
1
Rena Josephine Rubino
TR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM 25W4 C-20