Another quick scamper around the tunnels of academia…

* “Science and Madness: Echoes of Freudian Psychoanalysis in the Works of H.P. Lovecraft”, an M.A. dissertation. “Available for download on Thursday, April 25, 2024”.

* H.P. Lovecraft’s monsters of modernity read through J. J. Cohen’s ‘Seven Monster Theses’. Another Masters dissertation, from 2022 and also embargoed, but with a substantial abstract. As well as the oft-cited racial fears…

“The study finds that Lovecraft’s monsters are in part influenced by religious uncertainty following the First World War, the scientific advancements of Einstein’s theories of relativity, and the economic uncertainty of the American Great Depression” and at a deeper level “laissez-faire capitalism and Judeo-Christian thought”.

* In Indiana, the 2023-2024 IDAH HASTAC Scholars include a reseacher looking at… “the role of magic in weird fiction, particularly that influenced by H.P. Lovecraft. As part of this work, Sam utilizes computational text analysis methods such as topic modelling and document classification.”