Since When Are Monsters Funny? Rethinking Performances of Otherness

What happens when performances embrace Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s call to enact monstrosity with a “liberal dose of comedy”? This panel invites 250-word abstracts that explore how comedic interventions subvert traditional narratives of monstrosity as Otherness.

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 15 March 2025

Christina Baker, Temple U (christina.baker0001@temple.edu )