Profs & Pints DC: Meet the Monster

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Meet the Monster,” an exploration of monsters and monstrosity in legend, literature, and our own minds, with Larissa “Kat” Tracy, visiting faculty at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and former professor of medieval literature.

Throughout history human minds have given rise to monsters as representations of our worst fears. In literature, monsters also have served a much broader purpose, as devices used in social or political commentary to cry out against corruption, inequality, and political and scientific despotism.

Spend a thoughtful evening getting to know things that go bump in the night with Dr. Kat Tracy, a scholar of all things saucy and nasty and the vice president of an academic society devoted to the study of medieval monsters and cryptozoology.

Taking us on a journey through time, she’ll help us get to know some of the earliest human-form monsters in world literature and culture.…