Julio Jeha

What's on

Publications · Publicações
On Monster Making · Da fabricação de monstros

Events · Eventos

IV Jornadas de Reflexión Monstruos y Monstruosidades
21–23 Oct. 2010 · Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

II Seminário Nacional Literatura e Cultura
Symposium Crimes, Sins, and Monstrosities
Simpósio Crimes, Pecados e Monstruosidades
27–28 May 2010 · Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Forever Poe · Para Sempre Poe (UFMG)
An international conference to celebrate E. A. Poe's bicentennial · 20-23 September 2009
Um congresso internacional para celebrar o bicentenário de E. A. Poe · 20-23 setembro 2009
Blog Para Sempre Poe

Teaching
In the second semester of 2010,

Let’s look at murder and other serious and lethal businesses:
· Crime in Literature · Crimes na Literatura (undergrad.)

What is prose fiction and why do we enjoy it?
· Prose in English · Prosa de Ficção (undergrad.)

Research
Learn more about Evil in Literature
· Evil and Suffering in Auster, DeLillo, Doctorow, and Vonnegut
· Monsters and Monstrosities

Monsters and Monstrosities
At first taken as marvels and prodigies, monsters came to personify what our culture regards as improper. They are deformed, excessive, and dangerous. Sent by the gods to warn us of and punish us for our follies, they reveal the changes in our knowledge and our uncertainties about the natural order.

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Gallery with some of the most famous movie monsters
Galeria com alguns do mais famosos monstros do cinema

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Enciclopédia dos Monstros faz raio-x do terror nos quadrinhos e em outras artes (veja também a entrevista com o autor)

Arcimboldo . Water . 1566

Water
Arcimboldo . 1566
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Rewriting Myths
The study group will begin by reading Homer's Odyssey.

Ulysses and the Sirens
1st-3rd century
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Updated 19-aug-10

Monkey see, monkey do
Could you explain crime against nature again?

Vampire Squid from Hell, or Vampyroteuthis infernalis, hasn't changed much in 300 million years.

(click on image to watch the NatGeo video)

Gallery

Norman Rockwell
Boy on High Dive
Cover of Post Magazine of 16 Aug. 1947

Click on image to enlarge