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Second Thursday Lecture Series: Dazed, Seduced and Transfixed: The Monster Through Time, in Literature, and in Our Lives with Shanta Lee         

From Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein to Pu Songling’s The Painted Skin, to Jordan Peele’s Us, to Lovecraft Country, to Monsterland, and to nearly countless vampire tales, our culture is filled with manifestations of the monster. These figures span genres from mythology to oral tradition to poetry. Alongside this legacy, moments of history have sometimes raised the…