The Monstrous Mother: Unexpected Evil in Myth, Literature, and Popular Culture

Anna Chiara Corradino is Research Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa, Italy. Her research interests include the dynamics of dominant femininity and reified masculinity, film, gender and cultural studies, and the transformation of ancient myths in contemporary literature and culture. She has published a monograph on the myth of Endymion and Selene (Bloomsbury, 2025) and essays on topics ranging from the classical tradition to representations of female necrophilia. She is currently writing a book on neon aesthetics in cinema.

Alessandro Grilli is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Pisa, Italy. He has written extensively on ancient drama and the classical tradition. His research interests include literary theory, applied rhetoric, film and gender studies. He has published monographs and essays on ancient and modern authors (from Aristophanes to Proust, from Catullus to Walter Siti), as well as on argumentation theory and film analysis. He is currently working on a book on the aesthetics of horror.