Maria Boletsi is Assistant Professor at the Film and Comparative Literature Department of Leiden University. Her recent book publications include Barbarism and Its Discontents (Stanford UP, 2013) and the volume Barbarism Revisited: New Perspectives on an Old Concept, co-edited with Christian Moser (Brill|Rodopi 2015). Originally from Western Canada, Tyler Sage completed his BA in English Literature at the University of British Columbia and his Research Master’s in Literary Studies at Leiden University. His Master's thesis explored forms of aesthetic expression and critique in a post-truth political environment.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and WildMaria Boletsi and Tyler SagePart I. Feared and Longed for Barbarian Invasions in Contemporary Politics and Culture1 Crisis, Terrorism, and Post-Truth: Processes of Othering and Self-Definition in the Culturalization of PoliticsMaria Boletsi2 The Fall of Rome and Rise of Empire in Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbaresTyler Sage3 From Compton to Congress: The Barbarians Inside the Gates—An Exploration of 'Black Subjectivity' in Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A ButterflySiebe Bluijs4 Barbarians in Istanbul: Different Approaches Towards the Urban Transformation ConundrumCansu SoyupakPart II. Savages and Monsters Old, New, and Refurbished: Canons Recast in Literature and Film5 Deconstructing Caliban's Genealogy of 'Otherness' in Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête: The Figuration of the Barbarian, Wild Man, and Cannibal in the Western Literary CanonGiulia Champion6 Savage as Living Ghost: Rethinking Eurocentrism and Decoloniality in The RevenantCui Chen7 Grotesque Genius: The Aesthetics of Form and Affect in Mary Shelley's FrankensteinAndries Hiskes8 The Monstrosity of the Female Artist in Dept. of Speculation, The Blazing World, and I Love DickRuby de VosPart III. Strange Bedfellows: Queering Barbarians, Barbarizing Self-Identity, Playing Holocaust9 Glamazons: Queer Barbarians in Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea and RuPaul's Drag RaceMareen Will10 Longboats, Oak, and the Dark Days of the Northmen: Seamus Heaney's Barbarisms in The Secret of KellsTom Curran11 "To Appreciate the Perfection of the Machinery": Rethinking the Notion of Barbarism in 'Playful' Holocaust RepresentationSophie van den BerghIndex

Maria Boletsi is Assistant Professor at the Film and Comparative Literature Department of Leiden University. Her recent book publications include Barbarism and Its Discontents (Stanford UP, 2013) and the volume Barbarism Revisited: New Perspectives on an Old Concept, co-edited with Christian Moser (Brill|Rodopi 2015). Originally from Western Canada, Tyler Sage completed his BA in English Literature at the University of British Columbia and his Research Master’s in Literary Studies at Leiden University. His Master's thesis explored forms of aesthetic expression and critique in a post-truth political environment.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and WildMaria Boletsi and Tyler SagePart I. Feared and Longed for Barbarian Invasions in Contemporary Politics and Culture1 Crisis, Terrorism, and Post-Truth: Processes of Othering and Self-Definition in the Culturalization of PoliticsMaria Boletsi2 The Fall of Rome and Rise of Empire in Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbaresTyler Sage3 From Compton to Congress: The Barbarians Inside the Gates—An Exploration of 'Black Subjectivity' in Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A ButterflySiebe Bluijs4 Barbarians in Istanbul: Different Approaches Towards the Urban Transformation ConundrumCansu SoyupakPart II. Savages and Monsters Old, New, and Refurbished: Canons Recast in Literature and Film5 Deconstructing Caliban's Genealogy of 'Otherness' in Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête: The Figuration of the Barbarian, Wild Man, and Cannibal in the Western Literary CanonGiulia Champion6 Savage as Living Ghost: Rethinking Eurocentrism and Decoloniality in The RevenantCui Chen7 Grotesque Genius: The Aesthetics of Form and Affect in Mary Shelley's FrankensteinAndries Hiskes8 The Monstrosity of the Female Artist in Dept. of Speculation, The Blazing World, and I Love DickRuby de VosPart III. Strange Bedfellows: Queering Barbarians, Barbarizing Self-Identity, Playing Holocaust9 Glamazons: Queer Barbarians in Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea and RuPaul's Drag RaceMareen Will10 Longboats, Oak, and the Dark Days of the Northmen: Seamus Heaney's Barbarisms in The Secret of KellsTom Curran11 "To Appreciate the Perfection of the Machinery": Rethinking the Notion of Barbarism in 'Playful' Holocaust RepresentationSophie van den BerghIndex