Peter Bebergal

Peter Bebergal writes widely on the speculative and slightly fringe. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, Boing Boing, The Believer, and The Quietus. He is the author of Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural and Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, among others. Bebergal studied religion and culture at Harvard Divinity School. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

How pop culture monsters mythologize our worries about sexuality, nuclear war, race, and the other.

with Peter Bebergal

EV003 traces the changing face of monsters as mythic and literary creatures and argues that we need monsters to learn how to imagine what frightens us in a way that remythologizes our anxieties and offers a path for re-enchanting our imaginations.

This event concluded on June 20, 2025.