Bernadette Marie Calafell (PhD, University of North Carolina) is Full Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Denver. She is author of Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance (Peter Lang, 2007) and co-editor (with Michelle A. Holling) of Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? (2011).

«This book represents truly outstanding and groundbreaking scholarship. By interweaving popular culture with her lived experiences, Bernadette Marie Calafell has added an important new dimension to our thinking about monsters and culture.» (Kendall R. Phillips, Professor and Associate Dean, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University)

• Contents: Monstrous Femininity: Constructions of Women of Color in the Academy – James Holmes and the Monstrosity of Whiteness – Chicana Feminist Legacies of Monstrosity in the Gloria Anzaldúa Archive – American Mary and The Lords of Salem: Post-Feminist Nightmares – From College Dropout to Monster: Kanye West and the Politics of Monstrosity – Monstrous Endings.

Bernadette Marie Calafell (PhD, University of North Carolina) is Full Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Denver. She is author of Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance (Peter Lang, 2007) and co-editor (with Michelle A. Holling) of Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? (2011).

«This book represents truly outstanding and groundbreaking scholarship. By interweaving popular culture with her lived experiences, Bernadette Marie Calafell has added an important new dimension to our thinking about monsters and culture.» (Kendall R. Phillips, Professor and Associate Dean, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University)

• Contents: Monstrous Femininity: Constructions of Women of Color in the Academy – James Holmes and the Monstrosity of Whiteness – Chicana Feminist Legacies of Monstrosity in the Gloria Anzaldúa Archive – American Mary and The Lords of Salem: Post-Feminist Nightmares – From College Dropout to Monster: Kanye West and the Politics of Monstrosity – Monstrous Endings.

Bernadette Marie Calafell (PhD, University of North Carolina) is Full Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Denver. She is author of Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance (Peter Lang, 2007) and co-editor (with Michelle A. Holling) of Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? (2011).

«This book represents truly outstanding and groundbreaking scholarship. By interweaving popular culture with her lived experiences, Bernadette Marie Calafell has added an important new dimension to our thinking about monsters and culture.» (Kendall R. Phillips, Professor and Associate Dean, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University)

• Contents: Monstrous Femininity: Constructions of Women of Color in the Academy – James Holmes and the Monstrosity of Whiteness – Chicana Feminist Legacies of Monstrosity in the Gloria Anzaldúa Archive – American Mary and The Lords of Salem: Post-Feminist Nightmares – From College Dropout to Monster: Kanye West and the Politics of Monstrosity – Monstrous Endings.