CFP: Creatures in the Classroom: Teaching Environmental Creature Features
Creatures in the Classroom: Teaching Environmental Creature Features Edited by Bridgitte Barclay and Christy Tidwell
The editors seek essays that engage with creature features as a subgenre of environmental science fiction and ecohorror and explore how they can be used in the classroom. These sf/horror texts feature creatures of various sorts attacking and may be intentionally commenting on environmental issues (like George McCowan’s Frogs [1972]) or simply ripe for environmental readings (like Roger Corman’s Wasp Woman [1959]). Creature features are also often campy, offering playfulness ...