Mel Monier
Biographic Data
| ID | 316661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mel Monier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mel |
| FAMILY NAME | Monier |
| SIGNATURE | MONIER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2182-3861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reading the dark romance: Exploring audience engagement with sexual power dynamics in dark romance novels
Dark romance is a subgenre of romance characterized by ‘dark’ and ‘mature’ content, with common tropes including morally grey anti-heroes, mafia, motorcycle gangs, stalking, arranged marriages, and kidnapping. Dark romance also includes darker erotic content including BDSM, kink, and ‘taboo’ sexual desires. As a result, the sexual relationships between characters range from fully consensual to non-consensual or rape. This article explores how dar…
The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters, and Paratext: The FWF START Project »Generative Authority,« 2024-2029
The History of Codex Alexandrinus: New Evidence from Arabic Paratexts
This article re-examines Codex Alexandrinus’s history, providing new paratextual evidence that supports an Alexandrian provenance, maintained in Egypt until its 17th-century transfer to England via Constantinople. It challenges scholarship favouring Constantinople as the codex’s home until the 14th century. Analyses of endowment ( waqf ) statements reveal differences between Patriarch Athanasius’s waqf and codices from Constantinople. Moreover, A…
What’s algorithms got to do with it? Exploring Black Women’s pursuit of Black love on dating apps
Exploring biracial identities and experiences through the #biracialproblems hashtag on TikTok
Andrea McDonnell, Celebrity Rhetoric and Sexual Misconduct Cases: Discursive
From #MelaninMansion to #BlackTikTokStrike: Black TikTok, Joy, and the Politics of Refusal
In this article, we critically analyze TikTok videos related to the #MelaninMansion trend and the #BlackTikTokStrike. Videos analyzed were posted during the hashtags' peak engagement, 2019-2020, and the summer of 2021, respectively. Drawing from Black cyberfeminism and literatures on Black cyberculture, platform politics, visibility, affect, resistance, refusal, and copyright, we identified shared themes and thematic differences between the hasht…
"Since the moment pictures could move, we had skin in the game": Black horror podcasters as fans, critics, and creators
Black horror is often investigated within film and television studies, but there is a lack of further inquiry into how Black horror exists within fandom, audience, and podcast studies. Upon completing nine in-depth qualitative interviews in our ongoing project on Black-identifying horror podcasters, we investigate how they centralize their racial identity while negotiating and participating in horror fandom and podcasting, as well as how they nav…
The History of the Arabic Diatessaron: Codicological Evidence
The History of the Arabic Diatessaron
Tatian and the Arabic Diatessaron: Mark’s Ending as a Case Study
Written in late second-century Rome, Tatian’s Diatessaron is one of the earliest and most influential Gospel harmonies in history. The original text of the Diatessaron was lost, and its surviving translations suffered from alterations. However, the attention of scholarship has recently shifted toward revisiting the Arabic Diatessaron with the aim of gathering fresh evidence from its text. This study examines Mark 16 in the Arabic Diatessaron, con…
From the auction block to the Tinder swipe: Black women’s experiences with fetishization on dating apps
The digital has been celebrated for its objectivity and lack of bias, yet digital media scholars have addressed the ways that inequity is embedded in technology. What is often missing from this discourse is the voices of Black women. Drawing on interviews with 20 self-identified Black and African American women, aged 18–30, who have used dating apps in the preceding 6 months, we invited participants to share their experiences with online dating a…
Rest as resistance: ” Black cyberfeminism, collective healing and liberation on @TheNapMinistry
Tricia Hersey, founder of The Nap Ministry, uses rest as a “healing mechanism” and a form of resistance. With a vibrant social media following, the Nap Ministry builds upon a strong history of Black feminist activism that centers the lived experiences of Black women. According to Hersey, rest is personal and political, a fight against the commodification and exploitation of laboring Black folks from chattel slavery to contemporary grind and hustl…
Mark's Endings in Context: Paratexts and Codicological Remarks
This article addresses the problem of the perception of Mark's endings as expressed in its manuscript tradition. I will argue that, unlike the modern standardized image, manuscript evidence offers a complex phenomenon in which the endings were perceived in diverse ways that move across the threshold that separates a text from paratexts. Further, the manuscripts show an influence between the endings and their associated paratexts. I will show this…
Mark’s Ending in the Digital Age: Paratextual Evidence, New Findings and Transcription Challenges
In approaching the classic problem of Mark’s ending, it has been assumed that there was no stone left unturned. However, the dawning of the digital age has proven otherwise. As part of the SNSF–funded project MARK16, I have studied the complex evidence of Mark 16’s textual transmission to understand the scribal textual decisions. This was followed by electronic transcription of the studied material as part of the digitization process. I will argu…
From the auction block to the Tinder swipe: Black women’s experiences with fetishization on dating apps
The digital has been celebrated for its objectivity and lack of bias, yet digital media scholars have addressed the ways that inequity is embedded in technology. What is often missing from this discourse is the voices of Black women. Drawing on interviews with 20 self-identified Black and African American women, aged 18–30, who have used dating apps in the preceding 6 months, we invited participants to share their experiences with online dating a…
Rest as resistance: ” Black cyberfeminism, collective healing and liberation on @TheNapMinistry
Tricia Hersey, founder of The Nap Ministry, uses rest as a “healing mechanism” and a form of resistance. With a vibrant social media following, the Nap Ministry builds upon a strong history of Black feminist activism that centers the lived experiences of Black women. According to Hersey, rest is personal and political, a fight against the commodification and exploitation of laboring Black folks from chattel slavery to contemporary grind and hustl…
What’s algorithms got to do with it? Exploring Black Women’s pursuit of Black love on dating apps
Exploring biracial identities and experiences through the #biracialproblems hashtag on TikTok
Mark’s Ending in the Digital Age: Paratextual Evidence, New Findings and Transcription Challenges
In approaching the classic problem of Mark’s ending, it has been assumed that there was no stone left unturned. However, the dawning of the digital age has proven otherwise. As part of the SNSF–funded project MARK16, I have studied the complex evidence of Mark 16’s textual transmission to understand the scribal textual decisions. This was followed by electronic transcription of the studied material as part of the digitization process. I will argu…
Mark's Endings in Context: Paratexts and Codicological Remarks
This article addresses the problem of the perception of Mark's endings as expressed in its manuscript tradition. I will argue that, unlike the modern standardized image, manuscript evidence offers a complex phenomenon in which the endings were perceived in diverse ways that move across the threshold that separates a text from paratexts. Further, the manuscripts show an influence between the endings and their associated paratexts. I will show this…
Rest as resistance: ” Black cyberfeminism, collective healing and liberation on @TheNapMinistry
Tricia Hersey, founder of The Nap Ministry, uses rest as a “healing mechanism” and a form of resistance. With a vibrant social media following, the Nap Ministry builds upon a strong history of Black feminist activism that centers the lived experiences of Black women. According to Hersey, rest is personal and political, a fight against the commodification and exploitation of laboring Black folks from chattel slavery to contemporary grind and hustl…
"Since the moment pictures could move, we had skin in the game": Black horror podcasters as fans, critics, and creators
Black horror is often investigated within film and television studies, but there is a lack of further inquiry into how Black horror exists within fandom, audience, and podcast studies. Upon completing nine in-depth qualitative interviews in our ongoing project on Black-identifying horror podcasters, we investigate how they centralize their racial identity while negotiating and participating in horror fandom and podcasting, as well as how they nav…
The History of the Arabic Diatessaron: Codicological Evidence
The History of the Arabic Diatessaron
Tatian and the Arabic Diatessaron: Mark’s Ending as a Case Study
Written in late second-century Rome, Tatian’s Diatessaron is one of the earliest and most influential Gospel harmonies in history. The original text of the Diatessaron was lost, and its surviving translations suffered from alterations. However, the attention of scholarship has recently shifted toward revisiting the Arabic Diatessaron with the aim of gathering fresh evidence from its text. This study examines Mark 16 in the Arabic Diatessaron, con…
From the auction block to the Tinder swipe: Black women’s experiences with fetishization on dating apps
The digital has been celebrated for its objectivity and lack of bias, yet digital media scholars have addressed the ways that inequity is embedded in technology. What is often missing from this discourse is the voices of Black women. Drawing on interviews with 20 self-identified Black and African American women, aged 18–30, who have used dating apps in the preceding 6 months, we invited participants to share their experiences with online dating a…
The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters, and Paratext: The FWF START Project »Generative Authority,« 2024-2029
The History of Codex Alexandrinus: New Evidence from Arabic Paratexts
This article re-examines Codex Alexandrinus’s history, providing new paratextual evidence that supports an Alexandrian provenance, maintained in Egypt until its 17th-century transfer to England via Constantinople. It challenges scholarship favouring Constantinople as the codex’s home until the 14th century. Analyses of endowment ( waqf ) statements reveal differences between Patriarch Athanasius’s waqf and codices from Constantinople. Moreover, A…
What’s algorithms got to do with it? Exploring Black Women’s pursuit of Black love on dating apps
Exploring biracial identities and experiences through the #biracialproblems hashtag on TikTok
Andrea McDonnell, Celebrity Rhetoric and Sexual Misconduct Cases: Discursive
From #MelaninMansion to #BlackTikTokStrike: Black TikTok, Joy, and the Politics of Refusal
In this article, we critically analyze TikTok videos related to the #MelaninMansion trend and the #BlackTikTokStrike. Videos analyzed were posted during the hashtags' peak engagement, 2019-2020, and the summer of 2021, respectively. Drawing from Black cyberfeminism and literatures on Black cyberculture, platform politics, visibility, affect, resistance, refusal, and copyright, we identified shared themes and thematic differences between the hasht…
Reading the dark romance: Exploring audience engagement with sexual power dynamics in dark romance novels
Dark romance is a subgenre of romance characterized by ‘dark’ and ‘mature’ content, with common tropes including morally grey anti-heroes, mafia, motorcycle gangs, stalking, arranged marriages, and kidnapping. Dark romance also includes darker erotic content including BDSM, kink, and ‘taboo’ sexual desires. As a result, the sexual relationships between characters range from fully consensual to non-consensual or rape. This article explores how dar…
Art (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Arabic (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)