Counting down to 2023: The two-hundredth anniversary of the second edition of Frankenstein, the first to name Mary Shelley as the novel's author. Also notable adaptations of the novel celebrate milestones, including Richard Brinsley Peake's Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein, the first dramatic adaptation of Shelley’s work. Moving closer to our time, a number popular adaptations from 1973 now mark their fiftieth anniversaries: on television appeared both Frankenstein by Dan Curtis and Frankenstein: The True Story by Jack Smight, the comics (after the softening of the Comics Code) launched both the serial “The Spawn of Frankenstein” from DC Comics and the series The Monster of Frankenstein from Marvel Comics, while theater-goers were introduced to The Rocky Horror Show (later adapted as The Rocky Horror Picture Show). Lastly, the fortieth anniversary of artist Bernie Wrightson’s illustrated version of Frankenstein from Marvel Comics.

Sunday, September 10, 2017

CFP Frankenstein 1818 to 2018: 200 Years of Mad Scientists and Monsters: A First Call for Papers (6/1/2018; NEPCA 2018)

Frankenstein 1818 to 2018:

200 Years of Mad Scientists and Monsters

A First Call for Papers



The Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association seeks proposals for papers and/or complete sessions to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 1818 and to celebrate the longevity of her iconic characters of scientist Victor Frankenstein, “the pale student of unhallowed arts,” and his monstrous construct, “the thing he had put together,” as she succinctly describes them in her introduction to the 1831 reissue of the work.

Proposals should explore aspects of the novel as representations of the fantastic and/or the afterlife of the text in later fantastic narratives of any genre or medium in which adaptations have occurred.



Presentations will be part of the conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association to be held in the fall of 2018.



Please contact area chair Michael A. Torregrossa at FrankensteinandtheFantastic@gmail.com with your proposals in advance of the 1 June 2018 deadline.

Further details and submission instructions will be available at Frankenstein and the Fantastic, an outreach effort of the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association, based at https://frankensteinandthefantastic.blogspot.com/.


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