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Animals & Media

Humans have been weaving stories and creating art featuring animal subjects since time immemorial. Careful examination of these human-generated images help us better understand perceptions and attitudes toward animals, the environment, and the natural world.

Childhood Studies

Childhood studies is an emerging multidisciplinary area of scholarly research and inquiry. Distinct from the fields of childhood development or child psychology, childhood studies considers children as a social group.

Cyborgs & Posthumanism

Posthumanism is an umbrella term that can be difficult to define, but broadly speaking posthuman theory seeks to de-center human exceptionalism or remove "man" from the top of the metaphysical hierarchy.

Ecohorror

Eco-horror (also environmental horror or natural horror) deals with fears about the environment. While eco-horror is not necessarily new as a genre, dedicated critical analysis and scholarship into eco-horror is quite recent. Eco-horror scholarship considers the ways in which the subgenre reflects and informs anxieties about science, the environment, and the nonhuman world.

Environmental Media Studies

Environmental Media Studies is a new interdisciplinary field which brings together media studies, the environmental humanities, and ecocriticism.

Monster Theory

Monster theory (or monster studies) considers monsters as cultural objects. Whether in folklore, fiction, or even real-life, monsters are constructed from cultural fears and anxieties.

Science & Culture

As a human endeavor, science is included in our broader concepts of culture. Social studies of science is a broad, trans- and multidisciplinary field of research and practice, including taking a humanities perspective in the study of science as a cultural phenomenon.