by Lisa Rathje | Aug 15, 2026
This article examines how Shona folktales deploy monstrosity as both a cultural and a pedagogical resource across informal and formal educational contexts. Focusing on the tale of a witch and her snake-son, the study explores how oral storytelling has historically...
by Lisa Rathje | Aug 15, 2026
This essay introduces an undergraduate honors course that approaches monsters as products of monstrification, a discursive act of interpellation. Students move from analyzing to creating and inhabiting monsters, and the monsters they produce reveal concerns about...
by Lisa Rathje | Aug 15, 2026
Regularly incorporating classroom discussions about cryptid legends has the potential to offer several benefits to upper elementary educators. First, the way that legends negotiate the ground between belief and doubt can lead to increased student engagement and...
by Lisa Rathje | Aug 15, 2026
Do monsters really exist? Surely they must, for if they did not, how could we? Jeffrey Jerome Cohen When I first received the email asking for proposals for a small humanities education materials grant, I knew I wanted to do something that would benefit our...
by Lisa Rathje | Aug 15, 2026
Introduction In the 2024 collection What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures, the marine biologist and writer Ayana Elizabeth Johnson interviews the Louisiana organizer and lawyer Colette Pichon Battle about the role of diaspora, home, and tradition in the...
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