Monster Theory Returns

Exploring monsters as critical guides to understanding what it means to be human in a perilous world

Thirty years after the publication of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's groundbreaking Monster Theory, the field it helped create has grown into a dynamic and influential area of interdisciplinary scholarship. Monster Theory Returns gathers twenty-six original essays exploring an extraordinary range of monstrous figures, from demons and vampires to microbes and emerging posthuman forms, illuminating urgent questions of belonging, political violence, environmental change, and the boundaries of the human itself.

Combining historical depth with a global perspective, these lively essays show that monsters are far more than figures of fear. They are powerful cultural tools for thinking through crises in a perilous and rapidly changing world.

Contributors: U. Melissa Anyiwo, U of Scranton; Benjamin Ash, Arizona State U; Stephen T. Asma, Columbia College, Chicago; Michael M. Chemers, U of California, Santa Cruz; Eli Cumings, Columbia U; Rebecca Duncan, Linnaeus U; Michael Dylan Foster, U of California, Davis; Ren e Fox, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kaja Franck, U of Hertfordshire; Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory U; Brandon R. Grafius, Ecumenical Theological Seminary; Anya Heise-von der Lippe, U of T bingen; Mary Kate Hurley, Ohio U; Anson Koch-Rein, U of North Carolina; Agnieszka Kotwasińska, U of Warsaw; Riva Lehrer; Sherry C.M. Lindquist, Western Illinois U; Iyad Malouf, Tel Aviv U; Asa Simon Mittman, California State U, Chico; Kirsten M llegaard, U of Hawai'i at Hilo; Alan S. Montroso, U of Maryland; David Robinson; Margrit Shildrick, Stockholm U; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan U; Emily Zarka, Arizona State U

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517921465
• ISBN13: 9781517921460
• Release Date: June 2027
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.