by Hannah Partridge, Ball State University In the DLR class, we have discussed our society’s fascination with images of post-apocalyptic destruction and desolation. Movies, TV shows, and books depict abandoned cities reclaimed by nature, and we find them to be hauntingly beautiful. Jackie Johnson is an educator and photographer living in St. Louis, Missouri. Jackie […]

by Megan Schillereff, Ball State University In the film 28 Days Later, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland give us a post-zombie apocalypse London struggling for survival, complete with a small group of survivors eking out a living from the zombie-scorched earth. Not surprisingly, these survivors have to fight to evolve and adapt to […]

by Leah Heim, Ball State University It’s fall semester, and that means Ball State University’s Digital Literature Review is officially geared up for another year of literary criticism and analysis. As one of the lead editors, I humbly invite all readers, scholars, and writers to join our staff in exploring this year’s journal topic— representations of the post-apocalypse. […]

by Kathryn Hampshire Dr. Adam Beach, Chairperson for the Department of English at Ball State University, was one of the key players in starting the Digital Literature Review (DLR) in 2013, and he served as its faculty mentor again the following year; he will be rejoining the staff next year, this time with the theme […]

by Troi Watts   Were you excited for Dr. Jeffrey Weinstock’s talk on Vampire Suicide but just couldn’t make it to the lecture? Did you attend but wish you knew even more? No need to be disappointed anymore as you can read all about it right here! Dr. Weinstock came all the way from Central […]

by Kaley Rittichier, Ball State University “Traveler’s Notebook: Monster Tales” is a two-player digital game in which players travel the globe encountering monsters, piecing together stories, and acquiring new skills. They can travel to Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America. Each one of these locations has monsters specific to that location; these monsters […]

by Troi Watts The Digital Literature Review will be holding our annual gala on April 26th from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in room 301 of the Student Center. The gala will be a celebration of the completion of the fourth edition of the Digital Literature Review. This year’s theme of monsters will set the stage […]

by Emma Hartman The first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Buffy for short, contains many stand-alone episodes–mostly featuring metaphorical monsters and demons–which parallel issues that teens may encounter in real life. Each of the twelve episodes in the season feature either a creature who was at one time a person or a person […]

by Leah Heim Stephen King’s Carrie is an unlikely book, even for a man whose novels feature ax-wielding nurses and killer clowns. Though it is King’s debut novel, Carrie handles subject matter that some authors don’t dare to touch even in their most mature creations, such as religious fanaticism, ambiguous moral decisions, and the vacuum […]

by Jessica P. Ramos, University of Florida “A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity… If this rule were always observed… Greece had not been enslaved; Caesar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered […]