Special Session

Genres and Audiences / Languages and Linguistics

Kate Watt (University of California - Riverside)
kate@****.com (Log-in to reveal)

Critical responses invited to texts within the genres of Fantasy, Horror, and the Supernatural, including Scary Clowns.

From golems to Gollum, ghosts to Ironman, hobbits to succubi, zombies to dopplegangers, the possessed to those who wield the dark arts, the not-human, the almost-human, the was-human, the wants-to-be-human, the beyond-human, and those who use unknown powers to prey on humans have populated human culture and narrative from the beginning. Analysis from any critical perspective, exploring texts drawn from literature, film/TV, graphic novels, manga, comics, visual arts, and elsewhere, is welcome.