Author: Crystal O Leary-Davidson, Mary Ann Gareis Lisa Wenger Bro

Mary Ann Gareis has BAs in Philosophy and English Literature from Berea College, USA, and an MA in Medieval Literature from the University of Georgia, USA. She is an Associate Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University, USA. She has presented on rhetoric and pedagogy in working with underprepared and at risk students. Her current interests include horror, the Gothic and the contemporary anti-hero. Her recent work includes “Unsavory Saviors: The Hero Becomes the Monster in Contemporary Horror” and “From Ground Breaking to World Breaking: Technology and our Fragile Landscape.”