https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/monstrous-happenings daily 0.75 2023-03-07 https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/monstrous-happenings/burying-desantis-zombie-ideas monthly 0.5 2023-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/aba37373-b970-4608-a1af-55e5b3b0653c/zombie-silhouette.jpg Monstrous Happenings - Burying DeSantis’ Zombie Ideas In his ongoing attacks on public higher education in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis has taken aim at university programs (“DeSantis Proposes Legislation to Eliminate DEI Bureaucracies in Florida Colleges,” National Review January 31, 2023) that he claims are “hostile to academic freedom,” programs he claims “impose ideological conformity” and “provoke political activism.” In describing the kinds of programs he wants to do away with, he reaches for the most absurd, over-the-top, sarcastically inflammatory example he can think of to represent the areas of study that public universities should jettison in favor of providing students with curriculums “grounded in actual history” and “actual philosophy that has shaped Western civilization.” In a speech on January 31st, DeSantis revived one of his oft-used lines: “We don’t want students to go through, at taxpayer expense, and graduate with a degree in Zombie Studies,” the Governor said (“DeSantis Takes On the Education Establishment, and Builds His Brand,” NYT, Jan 31, 2023). https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/home daily 1.0 2026-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/3853f6b2-d601-4641-be9e-a26167b23e53/ColorLogoMonster.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/812d43cb-821f-41ed-bf44-f5fbbb5072f2/Web+cFP.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/3bf99e6c-a859-4171-881a-8ebe55c52910/IMG_5916.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/c3f07351-526a-4a63-833e-96a694a79cd7/Monster+Ball+202540.jpg https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/publications daily 0.75 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/1613603510540-SXVVNNW2AFPRMD3S31NK/monsintheahist.jpg Publications - The Monster in Theatre History By Michael M. Chemers Monsters are fragmentary, uncertain, frightening creatures. What happens when they enter the realm of the theatre? The Monster in Theatre History explores the cultural genealogies of monsters as they appear in the recorded history of Western theatre. From the Ancient Greeks to the most cutting-edge new media, Michael Chemers focuses on a series of ‘key’ monsters, including Frankenstein’s creature, werewolves, ghosts, and vampires, to reconsider what monsters in performance might mean to those who witness them. This volume builds a clear methodology for engaging with theatrical monsters of all kinds, providing a much-needed guidebook to this fascinating hinterland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/0a1614d2-1e2f-4b0d-927e-c4307fea0b78/FRONTCOVER_Fox_low-res_rgb.jpeg Publications - The Necromantics By Renée Fox The Necromantics dwells on the literal afterlives of history. Reading the reanimated corpses—monstrous, metaphorical, and occasionally merely electrified—that Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats, Bram Stoker, and others bring to life in their works, Renée Fox argues that these undead figures embody the present’s desire to remake the past in its own image. Fox positions “necromantic literature”—literature preoccupied with reanimated bodies—at a nineteenth-century intersection between sentimental historiography, medical electricity, imperial gothic monster stories, and the Irish Literary Revival, contending that these unghostly bodies resist critical assumptions about the always-haunting power of history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/fff27023-ea8c-4883-bd73-daeab63b4a08/Monsters+In+Perf+Cover%2Cjpg.jpeg Publications - Monsters in Performance Edited by Michael Chemers and Analola Santana Monsters in Performance boasts an impressive range of contemporary essays that delve into topical themes such as race, gender, and disability, to explore what constitutes monstrosity within the performing arts.These fascinating essays from leading and emerging scholars explore representation in performance, specifically concerning themselves with attempts at social disqualification of "undesirables." Throughout, the writers employ the concept of "monstrosity" to describe the cultural processes by which certain identities or bodies are configured to be threateningly deviant. 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Read the story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/216376c7-fe61-454e-85d4-9aad6056dbfc/Doc-Chemers.jpg Media Appearances - Q&A: Founder of Center for Monster Studies isn’t scared when the lights go down (Jewish News of Northern California 10/30/24) Sue Fishkoff interviews Michael Chemers on all things monsters. Read the story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/5a20937e-f15b-41ad-862b-47fc33003644/IMG_0426.jpg Media Appearances - Monsters Under the Microscope (Voices of Monterey Bay, 10/24/24) Charlotte West explores the Center for Monster Studies, a one-of-a-kind research hub for all things monstrous. 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Read the story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/873fa2ff-5a80-4fc9-8913-51a54c6e4822/Screen+Shot+2023-03-19+at+3.03.16+PM.png Media Appearances - Monsters Among Us (March 2023) Lisa Renner interviews the faculty and students of the UCSC Center for Monster Studies about the Center’s activities for the UC Santa Cruz Magazine. Read the story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/d136a3f7-f09a-4c11-8f61-aeeee3b03372/lookout.brightspotcdn.png Media Appearances - Grendels, Golems, Godzilla & More (May 8, 2022) Wallace Baine talks with Center Director Michael Chemers and Playwright Kristen Brandt about the 2022 Festival. Read the story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/d400bb5a-21af-40a9-900f-b9a0afeff16d/ksqd-logo.png Media Appearances - An interview with Center Director Michael Chemers Michael Chemers is interviewed by Forest Reid of KSQD. 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Free. A landmark of early horror cinema, this 1920 silent film was directed by Paul Wegener. Set in medieval Prague, it tells the story of a rabbi with sorcerous knowledge who conjures a clay monster to protect his people from a pogrom. Our production features UCSC students providing an instant soundtrack! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/5fdfb6e2-6ae2-4e42-9ab5-14f2b05b24fa/MonsterFestArt.jpg 2022 Fest - 2:15-3:45 p.m. Making the Contemporary Monster roundtable @ UC Santa Cruz, DARC Room 308. Free. Moderated by Monster Studies Center Director Michael M. Chemers, this panel brings together bioethicist Rosemarie Garland Thomson and horror writer Mike Carey (live via Zoom) with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, the founder of the field of Monster Studies, for a conversation about monsters in the modern age. https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/epk daily 0.75 2025-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f618b129493d6290443aa77/07d86ee0-aeb7-45ad-b468-cfca14215281/T-shirt2025Monster.png Electronic Press Kit - 2025 Festival of Monsters The UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies 2025 Festival of Monsters takes place October 15-18 in Santa Cruz, CA. The Festival’s free public days start Wednesday, Oct. 15 with a keynote by David Livingstone Smith, author of Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization, at the Museum of Art and History. The Festival’s academic conference takes place at UC Santa Cruz’s Digital Arts Resource Center on Oct. 16-17 and includes the Monsters’ Ball on Oct. 17. An authors’ panel at Bookshop Santa Cruz, a comic signing at Atlantis Fantasyworld and a game at Game Santa Cruz brings the Festival downtown on Oct. 18. 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