Investigating Stranger Things Upside Down in the World of Mainstream Cult Entertainment

Tracey Mollet is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of Cartoons in Hard Times: The Animated Shorts of  Disney and Warner Brothers in Depression and War (2017) and A Cultural History of the Disney Fairy Tale: Once Upon an American Dream (2020). She has published widely on American popular culture, including several essays on Stranger Things.

Lindsey Scott is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Suffolk, UK, where she teaches adaptation studies, children’s literature, and gothic horror in young adult fiction. Her work has appeared in edited collections and journals including Literature/Film Quarterly, Cinephile and Shakespeare Survey . She is currently writing on horror in children’s literature and popular culture.