Santos, Cristina: - Cristina 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.