DENNIS WILSON WISE e-mail(s): wolf38810@gmail.com, dwwise@arizona.edu University of Arizona Updated 27 August 2020
This brief lectures videos are associated with my English 160D: Nonhuman Subjects: Monsters, Ghosts, Aliens, and Others course. They were created using Panopto for use in asynchronous teaching activities.
- “Looking at the Monster — Tactic #1” (9:25). An intro to the methodology of monster studies.
- “The Strangeness of Beowulf” (11:30)
- “Historical Context for Beowulf” (8:18)
- “The Dragon and Beowulf” (10:03)
- “Monsters — Tolkien and the Critics” (8:21). On Tolkien’s famous essay, “The Monsters and the Critics.”
- “Ghost Stories and The Woman in Black” (11:38)
- “Cosmic Indifferentism” (7:28). An intro to H. P. Lovecraft.
- “The Wizard of Oz” (10:50)
- “Young Adult Literature and Walter Dean Myers” (3:31)
- “Posthumanism” (7:18)
- “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” (15:43). A walk-through of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s foundational essay.