SCMS-SIG
2022 - 2023
Selected by a jury of SCMS-SIG scholars and the Monstrum founding editors, this year's SCMS Horror Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Prize runner-up is Kate Russell for her paper “A Theory of the Gag: Comedic Mechanisms in Exploitation Film Form,” which will also be published in the upcoming issue of Monstrum. Monstrum is pleased to collaborate with the Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group (SIG), part of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), in the selection and publication of their annual prize-winning graduate student essay.