Image: FRC would like to thank Dr. Amy Bonnaffons for joining us for an engaging Talk & Tea on "Reclaiming Monstrosity: Queer Vampires and Feminist Hybrids." Throughout Western literature, figures of monsters and vampires have been used to represent fears of racial and sexual outsiders. Dr. Bonnaffons discussed ways that contemporary writers are reclaiming and reinventing tropes of monstrosity in order to illuminate a more nuanced vision of identity that resists oppressive social norms.
