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.