Part1: Monsters and Monstrosity
1. “In the woods the Tox is still wild”: The EcoGothic in Rory Power’s Wilder Girls 2. The Human/Un(human): Monster, Ecophobia, and the Posthuman Horror(scape) in Dibakar Banerjee’s “Monster,” Ghost Stories 3. A Scourge Even Worse Than Disease: Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend as Pandemic Political Allegory
Part2: Intersectional Critique
4. Fungal Imaginaries: The Reconfiguration of Post-Pandemic Society in Severance (2018) and The Last of Us (2023)
5. Five Hundred Years of Plague: Indigenous Apocalypse in Joca Reiners Terron’s Death and the Meteor (2019)
6. Corruption and Cleansing: An Eco-Feminist Approach to the Nature/Culture Dichotomy in Naomi Novik’s Uprooted 7. Through Currents of Contamination: The Failure of Immunizing Insularity in Sophie Mackintosh’s The Water Cure
Part3: More-Than-Human Mutual Aid and Eco-Justice
8. Dystopian Prohibitions and Utopian Possibilities in Edmonton, Canada, at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
9. Affiliation as Environmental Justice in Three Climate Novels
10. “A Vortex of Summons and Repulsion”: The Productive Abject, Posthumanisms, and the Weird in Charles Burns’ Black Hole (2005)
11. (Un)Caring Borders: More-than-Human Solidarities in the Białowie?a Forest
Part4: Creative Resistance and Utopian Glimmers
12. “Preservation is an Action, not a State”: DIY Utopian Enclaves and Ways Out of Post-Pandemic Surveillance Capitalism in Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day 13. Pandemic Dramaturgy: Co-Designing the Performance Dying Together/Futures with the COVID-19 Virus
14. Vitality of Non-Human Entities: Plagues and Pandemics as Hyperobjects in Defoe, Camus, and Pamuk
15. World-Building Enactments of The School Strike Movements During the Pandemic: Reading Youth Climate Crisis Movements Through a Micro and Nano-Utopian Lens