by emmabridges | Oct 18, 2018 | Public engagement
Dr. Christine Plastow (Open University), an associate director of By Jove Theatre Company, shares news of a project which the company is currently developing. At By Jove, we make politically conscious performance work that tells old stories in new ways – we’re...
by emmabridges | Sep 24, 2018 | Publications
Dr. Liz Gloyn (Royal Holloway) is one of the contributors to the recently-published anthology Making Monsters, with her essay ‘Caught in Medusa’s gaze: why does the ancient monster survive in the modern world?’ In this guest post Liz interviews Dr....
by Gabriel Bodard | Sep 7, 2018 | Events, Public engagement, Publications
Last night (Thursday Sept 6th, 2018) was the launch party for the Making Monsters anthology, edited by Emma Bridges and Djibril al-Ayad, a mixed anthology of speculative fiction and accessible academic essays published by Futurefire.net Publishing and sponsored by the...
by emmabridges | Feb 24, 2018 | Public engagement, Publications
Here at the ICS we’ve recently been spending a lot of time thinking about monsters of various kinds, after we hosted an event entitled ‘Why do we need monsters?’ We’re also co-publishing with Futurefire.net a new anthology of fiction and non-fiction entitled Making...
by emmabridges | Jan 22, 2018 | Public engagement, Publications
The ICS and Futurefire.net (FFN), an independent publisher of speculative fiction, are embarking on an innovative partnership to publish a new volume entitled Making Monsters later this year. The book, which is aimed primarily at an audience of non-specialists, will...
