How to Approach Monsters

Winter 2024 | Photographs by Zeisha B.

Students enrolled in Monster: Conceptions and Misconceptions of the Monstrous in Fiction and in BioScience, in Medicine and in Art, view “the monstrous” through the lenses of science and the humanities — and through the creation of artworks supported by the Moody Center for the Arts. The course’s professors, bioscientist Mike Gustin and comparative literature scholar Deborah Harter, aim for students to examine “the ways in which the monstrous is, and has been, both conceived and misconceived.” Rice Magazine intern Zeisha Bennett ’25 photographed students wearing their inventions for an exhibition at the Moody that will be on display through fall 2024.