Since we’re all approaching monsters from different disciplines, perhaps it might be helpful to briefly introduce yourself and explain how you use monsters/monstrosity in your work here.

I’ll start:

I’m an English Lit. Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University. As of this Fall, I will be in my second year of the program. My research interests focu…[Read more]

Hello everyone!

I was hoping that someone could answer a question for me and help me out a little. I am a PhD student in Classics with very little background on Buddhism. I am preparing a series of blog posts on gods and myths related to writing in different cultures of the world and I read somewhere that the bodhisattva Manjushri is somehow…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

It’s looking a bit bare around here, but hopefully we can do something about that!

I wanted to start this group so that there was another place that people working on monstrosity in different disciplines could talk to one another.

So, if you have seen/organised a relevant event, have read something interesting on the topic, have p…[Read more]