English Instructor Natasha Rebry Coulthard to Publish Book on Monstrosity and Shape-Shifting
English and Writing Instructor Natasha Rebry Coulthard's first book, Gothic Metis: Cunning Monstrosity, Shapeshifting and Subversion Linking the Nineteenth Century to the Present will be appearing from University of Wales Press in May, 2025.
The book, described by its publisher as "a rare book-length study of mētis, the art of cunning, and the first-ever examination of mētis in the context of Gothic studies," offers "a novel transdisciplinary framework for analyzing Gothic media and discourse through the lens of mētis."
"Gothic Mētis weaves together myth, literature, rhetorical theory, and critical posthumanism to analyze Gothic renditions of mētis in character and narration from the nineteenth century to the present. Reading Gothic works through the lens of mētis, this book highlights the Gothic mode as a timely, artful response to the rise of the Anthropocene, rendering a post-anthropocentric world beyond Man and illuminating the rhetorical and ethical value of monstrosity, divergence, liminality, and hybridity."