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annapeppard.bsky.social
Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks Frankenstein+ seven theses of monstrosity! #ComicsStudies #MonsterStudies #Frankenstein
sequentialscholars.bsky.social Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · Nov 3
#Frankenstein’s monster endures for a reason: because he incorporates many different fears & fantasies, many different theories & possibilities of monstrosity. Indeed, Junji Ito’s interpretation of the Creature embodies each of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s “seven theses” about what makes a monster. 1/15
Image of the cover of The Monster Theory Reader which features Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s chapter “Monster Culture (Seven Theses).” There is also an image of Junji Ito’s Creature and a screenshot of Cohen’s seven theses, which are: Thesis I: The Monster's Body Is a Cultural Body; Thesis II: The Monster Always Escapes; Thesis III: The Monster Is the Harbinger of Category Crisis; Thesis IV: The Monster Dwells at the Gates of Difference; Thesis V: The Monster Polices the Borders of the Possible; Thesis VI: Fear of the Monster Is Really a Kind of Desire; Thesis VII: The Monster Stands at the Threshold… of Becoming
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
jgodsmonsters.bsky.social
A special issue of The Journal of Gods and Monsters has just released focused on the Exorcist! godsandmonsters-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/godsandmonst...
#monsterstudies #monsters #exorcist #horrorstudies
June 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
New video about one of my favorite topics, #Nimona! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSdw... #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies
NIMONA: The Queer Child Shapeshifter, Part 1
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October 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
idatolgensbakk.bsky.social
Call for abstracts! Special issue of the journal Arv – Yearbook of Nordic Folklore. We invite articles that study changes in the interaction patterns between human beings and beings that are more than human. #folklore #academicsky #monsterstudies
Metamorphosis – Studies in changing relations between people and supernatural beings Call for abstracts: To a special issue of the journal Arv – Yearbook of Nordic Folklore, we invite articles that study changes in the interaction patterns between human beings and beings that are more than human. Supernatural beings come in many sizes and shapes, from the largest dragon to the tiniest gnome. As variable are their attitudes, inclinations and habits, and their relations with the human world, ranging from indifferent, to beneficial, to deeply malevolent. What is more, this gamut of variability, including shapes, inclinations and human relations, is subject to historical changes. While the concept of metamorphosis is applicable to many aspects of monster studies, for instance to how supernatural beings may have the power to alter their appearances, or to how their origin stories may contain mythical alterations, or to how they can disturb and change the fate of a person who happens to cross their path, the title for this publication marks the specific intention to orchestrate analytical close encounters with significant changes in the human/monster interaction patterns, when you for instance can see that people start describing supernatural beings in different genres, sorting them in different categories, experiencing different kinds of encounters with them, or placing their images in different locations and on different objects. We want articles that use a range of research strategies for describing, exploring and interpreting these kinds of changes and leave you at liberty to apply the theoretical and methodical approaches that you prefer. This whish for methodical and analytical plurality is motivated by how the supernatural beings themselves are multi-faceted and moldable, and on the assumption that no single approach can hold them. Abstract deadline: December 15th, 2025. Abstracts (250–500 words) should include: working title, description of source materials and …
September 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
New video essay! I talk all about the child psychopath film and the troubling underlying philosophies about childhood. Spoiler alert: I don't like these movies! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMEQ...
#childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #videoessays #publicscholarship
The Child Psychopath Film and Why I Don't Like It
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March 29, 2026 at 2:21 PM
kcommons.bsky.social
Our Project Manager, Bonnie Russell, loves monsters. 👾 Check out her #KCWorks spotlight selection, all about the Loch Ness Monster. Download it here: works.hcommons.org/records/yant...

#openaccess #researchspotlight #meteorology #monsterstudies
Decorative graphic with text reading "Nessie and Noctilucent Clouds: A Meteorological Explanation for Some Loch Ness Monster Sightings" "Oliver D. Smith" "Works.hcommons.org"
July 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
New video up! What would make a parent determine that their child is a monster? Dive into these question through an analysis of the #GuillermodelToro #Frankentein2025 and the Disney adaptations of #TheHunchbackofNotreDame." www.youtube.com/watch?v=GclZ... #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies
Bad Dads, Monster Sons: Del Toro's Frankenstein and Disney's Hunchback(s)
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April 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
Let's look at the bodily abjection and the complex social worlds of two infamous monstrous teen girls: #CarrieWhite and #JenniferCheck. How do gender and age intersect in the monstrosity of these horror icons? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bBL... #monsterstudies #childhoodstudies #jennifersbody #carrie
Monstrous Teen Girls: Peers and Periods in Carrie and Jennifer's Body
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June 15, 2026 at 4:45 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
What happens when kids go monstrous en masse? Explore how storytellers have explored that question across the years with #VillageoftheDamned (1960), #WhoCanKillaChild? (1976), #Citadel2012, and #TheGirlwithAlltheGifts (2014 and 2016). www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Ow... #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies
The Monstrous Child Collective through Six Decades of Horror
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August 23, 2026 at 3:57 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
New video up! Come for the weird old movies, stay for the condemnation of RFK Jr. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhFg...
#childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #disabilitystudies #publicscholarship #Freaks1932 #TheBlackStork
The Monsters of Childhood Innocence: Eugenics in Old Hollywood ... and Today
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August 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
monriatitans.bsky.social
The Monster & The Child: "The Child Psychopath Film and Why I Don't Like It" | #Psychology #ChildhoodStudies #MonsterStudies #Cinema #Movies #Psychopathy #DegenerationTheory #Tropes #Misconceptions #SocialConstruction #TheBadSeed #TheGoodSon #WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin
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The Child Psychopath Film and Why I Don't Like It
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April 20, 2026 at 3:25 AM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
New video! I explore the dark side of American Christianity and the monsters it can make of its children, using #ChildrenOfTheCorn (1984) and #TheWitch2015. Where is the line between victim and monster? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gq8... #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #roberteggers #stephenking
The Monster-Children of American Religion: "Children of the Corn" and "The Witch"
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August 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
I did an AMA (in two parts) on YouTube! Curious about #publicscholarship in #childhoodstudies and #monsterstudies? Come on over and join the conversation!
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AMA Part 1: Childhood Studies, Youth Rights, Disability Studies, and More!
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January 4, 2026 at 4:54 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
I keep forgetting I have this account. Too many years off of the Other App! Anyway, new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHSb... #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #frankenstein #darkwater #thesixthsense
Good Nature, Bad Nurture: Frankenstein, Dark Water, and The Sixth Sense
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September 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
I have a new feature on my channel: book reviews! #GodsMonsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible by Esther J. Hamori is an accessible, fascinating, & engaging work of scholarship for popular audiences. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kh6... #monsterstudies
Review: God's Monsters by Esther J. Hamori
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September 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
Forgot to post my latest video! If monsters are so scary, why are there so many stories that use them to teach young children to be less afraid? Join me as I discuss monster picturebooks and #MonstersInc! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqvz... #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #Grover
Facing Fears with Friendly Monsters: Grover, The Nightmare, and "Monsters, Inc."
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February 20, 2026 at 1:54 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
New #videoessay! Where and with whom is a child most safe? I take a look at constructions of "stranger danger" and (un)trustworthy adults in #Weapons2025, #TheBlackPhone, and #TheNightoftheHunter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=96BQ...
#childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #horrorstudies
Strangers and/or Dangers: Monstrous Adults in Weapons, The Black Phone, and The Night of the Hunter
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May 6, 2026 at 6:03 PM
idatolgensbakk.bsky.social
Sunday reading #monsterstudies Yasmine Musharbash' lovely intro to an anthology on Monster Anthropology.
Photo of a small part of an article. Underlined with red pen: "Combining the temporal and spatial perspectives, it seems safe to say that monsters are deeply embedded in the socio-cultural contexts of the respective human societies they haunt, and as human societies change, so do monsters."
September 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
jlugiessen.bsky.social
Wenn das Monströse Grenzen in Frage stellt: #Theater als einzigartiger Forschungsraum für #MonsterStudies – Forscherin der #JLUGiessen wirbt @dfg.de-gefördertes interdisziplinäres Netzwerk „Monstrous Matters“ ein www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... #Monster #Monstrosität #Theaterwissenschaft
Eine Frau mit dunklen kurzen Haaren und Brille, die einen leuchtend blauen Pullover trägt, schaut in die Kamera. Sie steht vor einem dunklen Hintergrund, in dem ein Gerüst für die Montage von Bühnenbeleuchtung zu sehen ist.
March 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
New video is up! If childhood is so precious and beautiful, then why is the idea of eternal childhood so tragic and terrifying? Come explore these questions with me by delving into the figure of the child vampire. youtu.be/y_cZqDnwqPY
#childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #iwtv #lettherightonein
Children with No Future: The Child Vampire in "Let the Right One In" & "Interview with the Vampire"
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November 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
New video! #TheIronGiant and #TheWildRobot use robots as a way to demonstrate the virtues and benefits of disobedience: of defying one's own programming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=asYO... #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies
Reprogramming Childhood: Robots and Disobedience in "The Iron Giant" and "The Wild Robot"
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September 13, 2026 at 6:07 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
New video! Come talk about the one and only #Animorphs, and how it refused to pull even a single punch in its depiction of child characters at war. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSlr... #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies
ANIMORPHS: The Monster and the Child at War
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December 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
monriatitans.bsky.social
The Monster & The Child: "The Monsters of Childhood Innocence: Eugenics in Old Hollywood ... and Today" | #ChildrenStudies #MonsterStudies #Disability #Childhood #Marginalization #Objectification #Monstrosity #Ableism #HumanNature #SurvivalOfTheFittest #MAHA
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The Monsters of Childhood Innocence: Eugenics in Old Hollywood ... and Today
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November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
Forgot to post about last week's video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=efrf.... Want to know why the phrase "childhood innocence" makes your friendly neighborhood Childhood Studies scholar grind their teeth? Look no further! #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #publicscholarship #TheOmen #AttacktheBlock
The Monsters of Childhood Innocence: Devils, Darkness, and White Supremacy
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August 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
monsterandchild.bsky.social
New video - the second part of my discussion of the queer child shapeshifter, this time in #MyFavoriteThingIsMonsters by Emil Ferris and Jane Schoenbrun's #ISawTheTVGlow! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lItK... #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #publicscholarship
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters and I Saw The TV Glow: The Queer Child Shapeshifter, Part 2
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November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM