Introduction to Volume VII The Artist as Outcast: The Role of Power and Politics in Art Our AI Overlord: The Cultural Persistence of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics in Understanding Artificial Intelligence Queering Holmes and Watson: How Observation Transforms Friendship into Love Feeling Forests and Talking Trees: Discovering an Animate Environment through Fantasy Muses, Temptresses, & Mothers: Female Agency, Sexuality, and Transformation in the Works of J.M. Coetzee Applewomen and Sandwichmen: Profession and Identity in Ulysses Queering Satan: The Politics of Sex, Gender, Visibility, and Fear in Paradise Lost “Nasty” Women of Western Literature: Empowering Women Against Misogyny by (Re)Claiming Language and Autonomy The “Borderland”: Representing the “Third Realm” of Auschwitz in Literature and Understanding Trauma, Realism, and Modernity in the Concentrationary Universe The House Settling: Race, Housing, and Wealth in the Post-Recession Horror Film Natural Selection to Neo-Darwinism: Societal Confrontations of Evolutionary Biology A World I Never Made: Dualism, Violence, and Sexuality in the Novels George Washington Goméz and The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo The Modern Zombie and Islamophobia: A Closer Look at Zach Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead TechnOphelia: Performance, Patriarchy, and Cyborg Feminism in Science Fiction Decolonizing the Mestizo: Postcolonial Approaches to Latino Identity in Chicano Literature La Petit Mort: Female Vampirism, the Abject, and Sexuality To Feel Friedrich’s Death in Front of His Canvas Empathy, Voyeurism, & the ‘Alien Adversary’: Portrayals of Tragedies in News Media & The Devil of Nanking Time & Hyperreality in Twelve Monkeys Social Disease The Ethics of Representation: Rape, Torture, Genocide Bleak December: Religious Fervor in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells” Probient Festive Misrule of Del Playa Drive, or, Halloween in Isla Vista: An Abbreviated Version Reverse Colonization as a Function of Criminal Atavism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Facing the Sublime: The Zombie Figure, Climate Change, & the Crisis of Categorization Casual Encounters: Representations of Queer Counterpublics in Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance and Edmund White’s Chaos Never Let Me Go & the Necropolitics of Biomedical Engineering Defined by a Test Score: America’s Troubling Education System
