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Monster Fest is a four-day international festival focused on the construction of monsters and monstrosity. Through a combination of academic and public-facing events, the festival brings scholars, students, artists, and community members together to examine the cultural, historical, and political significance of monstrosity across diverse lenses, including gender, race, sexuality, ability, religion, and Indigeneity.
The interdisciplinary and inclusive commitments that inform Monster Fest reflect the fast-expanding and exciting field of Monster Studies. Like the hybrid and shape-shifting figures it explores, Monster Studies evolves and expands in proportion to the diverse perspectives and experiences that enrich it.
Its myriad accessible events, including academic panels, scholarly-led film screenings and discussions, and public-facing keynote presentations, encourage public, scholarly, and artistic dialogues that engage monstrosity as a site through which to reveal, challenge, and subvert cultural norms and power structures.
Full scheduleIts myriad accessible events, including academic panels, scholarly-led film screenings and discussions, and public-facing keynote presentations, encourage public, scholarly, and artistic dialogues that engage monstrosity as a site through which to reveal, challenge, and subvert cultural norms and power structures.
Full scheduleOur speakers are world-class scholars working to collapse traditional boundaries between the academy and the broader public, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, and promoting diverse forms of knowledge creation and mobilization.
Meet our speakersOur speakers are world-class scholars working to collapse traditional boundaries between the academy and the broader public, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, and promoting diverse forms of knowledge creation and mobilization.
Meet our speakers