Horror and Mother/Hoods in Global Cultural Imaginaries: Representations Across Literature, Film, Television, and Art Literature, Film, Television, and Art

Rachel D. Davidson is an Associate Professor at Hanover College in the Department of Communication. Her research broadly addresses rhetoric and public culture with interests in motherhood, caregiving, and social advocacy. Rachel's research has appeared in Communication Quarterly, Women and Language, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, and Disability Studies Quarterly. Rachel has co-authored the books, The Avenging-Woman On-Screen: Female Empowerment and Feminist Possibilities (2023), and Gilmore Girls: A Cultural History with Lara C. Stache is a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Studies at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Her dissertation tracks how contemporary literary and artistic works by Mexican women are increasingly engaging with horror and the Gothic mode to grapple with gender-based violence. Some of her other interests include Testimony, Sound Studies, and Digital Humanities. Cristina Santos is an Associate Professor at Brock University. Her books Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires and Virgins (2016) and Untaming Girlhoods: Storytelling Female Adolescence (2023) explore the various constructs of monstrous women and deviant girlhoods. Her research and various publications focus on an intersectional feminist perspective of literature, film, television, popular culture, and mythology with a focus on the socio-cultural concept of deviance and its impact on the construction of identity.