Buckeye Talks on Tap - Our Bodies as Monsters: Reflecting on Mortality

Date
October 6, 2026
Time
5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Location
Bucci's Italian Scratch Kitchen - inside Passenger & Rail Co.
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Buckeye Talks on Tap

About this event

Professor Sara Crosby will lead an interactive conversation about monstrous depictions of illness and aging across literature and film, where our own bodies are a source of horror. From Frankenstein and the stories of Edgar Allan Poe to movies like The Substance and The Fly, we will consider how we’ve externalized our fear of death. This talk will be held in collaboration with Ohio State’s Urban Arts Space, a free gallery in downtown Columbus, coinciding with a group exhibition on death and dying—Spirit and Dust. The show will be on view at Urban Arts Space from October 13–November 14, 2026.

Speakers

Sara Crosby
The Ohio State University at Marion/Professor of English

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