Monster Studies
"Treat a person ill, and he will become wicked" (P.B. Shelley, 1880, p. 14)
What does Monster Studies do / meanfor me?
Why do this work as an Applied Linguists?
Why invite other Applied Linguists to engage in this work?
Upload YouTube presentations from Monster Studies conferences.
Why do this work as an Applied Linguists?
Why invite other Applied Linguists to engage in this work?
Upload YouTube presentations from Monster Studies conferences.
- Thomas, M. (2025, October). Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black: A Gothic tale of Black female serial killing. UC Santa Cruz Festival of Monsters. Santa Cruz, CA. (Regional, Refereed)
- Thomas, M. (2025, July). A Multimodal Stylistic Analysis of Jay-Z’s Gothic Lyricism in “Monster”. Speech, Music, Sound and Style SIG (Chair). Poetics & Linguistics Association (PALA). Birmingham, UK. (International, Refereed).
- Thomas, M. (2024, October). Jay-Z’s lyrical monstrosity in the 2010 gothic single, “Monster”. The Monster Conference, Santa Cruz, CA. (National, Refereed)