This Fall break, Hopkins Classicist Kathryn Stutz presented her research at the University of California Santa Cruz’s annual Festival of Monsters, in a talk titled “I Shall Have Become a Sea-Monster: Queer Monstrosity and the Polar Paradox of the Paranoid Gothic.” More details here, via the conference program: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024fest.

Kathryn has a busy few months ahead, with additional engagements planned at the polar conference Terror Camp and at the annual meeting of the SCS in Philadelphia.

In undaunted pursuit of her passion for the monstrous sea, she has also published with Histos a review of Diskin Clay’s commentary on Lucian’s True History, which can be accessed here: https://histos.org/index.php/histos/article/view/567

Congratulations, Kathryn!

Photo credit to Professor Renée Fox