2022 Festival of Monsters - Monstrous Nationhood Panel

Moderated by Prof. Elizabeth Swensen (DANM, UCSC), this panel of monster scholarship held on May 21 included author Johanna Isaacson (Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror, coming Sept. 2022) on “Haunted Domesticity and Anti-colonial Revision in Bustamante's La Llorona;” Rafael Franco (Ph.D. candidate, Literature, UCSC) on “Monstrous Maps: Cartography as a Form of Violence in Stoker's Dracula;” and Drew Richardson (Ph.D. candidate, History, UCSC) on “Raising the National Spirit(s): The Ino Mononoke Roku, Place-Making, and Monsters in Miyoshi, Japan.”

From left, Elizabeth Swensen, Drew Richardson, Johanna Isaacson and Rafael Franco take part in the Monstrous Nationhood panel.
Drew Richardson presents his paper.
Drew Richardson presenting his paper on the Ino Mononoke Roku.
Johanna Isaacson presents her book chapter on Bustamante's La Llorona.
Johanna Isaacson presenting her book chapter on La Llorona.
From left, Drew Richardson, Johanna Isaacson and Rafael Franco on the Monstrous Nationhood panel.
The Monstrous Nationhood panel at the Festival of Monsters.
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