This is a guaranteed session supported by the ASLE “Ecogothic and Ecohorror” Interest Group.

Representations of pests, predators, and parasites are often sources of terror in the ecogothic, ecohorror, and other related speculative literature/visual media, but they can also move beyond the functional terror to negotiate multispecies relationality, transformation, symbiosis, and uneasy coexistence in today’s changing world.

This roundtable (5-7 panelists for 8-10 minutes each) invites submissions addressing the imaginaries of pests, predators, and parasites in contemporary speculative literature/visual media (broadly defined), especially those in …