October 24, 2022
AMCS and English Literature Professor Kim Hester Williams has published an essay titled "Out of the White (Terror) and into the (Black) Presence: Difference as Monstrous in Stephen King's It, Chapter Two" for the book The Many Lives of Scary Clowns (2022).
This volume gives an in-depth analysis of the clown horror genre, including essays by revered horror scholars such as Kevin Wetmore, Dale Bailey, Kim Hester Williams, Jennifer K. Cox, and Joanna Parypinski. Their essays cover topics such as nostalgia, race, class, and new portrayals of the scary clown as zombies or phantoms.