Can The Monster Help Make the Dissertation More ‘Human’?
My research question is also the title of the research project, and initially I arrived at the title as a play on words. In my head, I was thinking about how the teaching activity might give students the opportunity to deconstruct a ‘monster’ and put back together again with a focus on the humanity of the entity. A friendlier face, a less scary presence. If they could reinvent the monster, could they reinvent the dissertation? What Burkett, cited in Meljac calls ’Mediating Monstrosity’ (2018). Teaching the Monster makes strange what is familiar and a construct to be broken down. ‘Making visible, things otherwise unseen and unknowable’ (Bloom – Bissonette, 2010, p.113).
