Cristina SantosCristina Santos is an associate professor at Brock University. Her current research and scholarship reflect an interest in investigating the monstrous depictions of women as aberrations of feminine nature vis-à-vis the socioculturally prescribed norm She also investigates political and social deviance and trauma in life narratives as the constructions of a personal and communal sense of identity that challenge official history and patriarchy. Her publications include Bending the Rules in the Quest for an Authentic Female Identity: Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa (2004), Defiant Deviance: The Irreality of Reality in the Cultural Imaginary (2006), The Monster Imagined: Re-Creation of Monsters and Monstrosity (2010), and Monstrous Deviations in Literature and the Arts (2011), to name a few. Read More Read Less