Celebrating in 2026: the 105th anniversary of the lost film Il Mostro di Frankenstein (1921); the 95th anniversary of Universal Studios’ Frankenstein (1931); the 60th anniversary of Dell Comics’ superhero version of Frankenstein (1966), Hanna Barbera’s television hero Frankenstein Jr, co-star of the series Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles (1966), and the films Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966) and The War of the Gargantuas (1966); the 55th anniversary of General Mills’ cereal mascot Franken Berry (1971); the 50th anniversary of the Saturday-morning television series Monster Squad (1976); the 45th anniversary of the anime film Kyofu Densetsu: Kaiki! Furankenshutain (1981); the 40th anniversary of Ken Russell’s film Gothic (1986) and Fred Saberhagen’s novel The Frankenstein Papers (1986); the 25th anniversary of Curtis Jobling’s picture book Frankenstein's Cat (2001); the 20th anniversary of Grant Morrision’s comic book series Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein (2006); the 15th anniversary of Nick Dear’s play Frankenstein (2011); the 10th anniversary of the Royal Ballet's production of Frankenstein (2016); and the release of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s film Bride! (2026).

Friday, February 2, 2018

Creature Re-feature: Frankenstein at 200 at NeMLA (4/14/2018)

49th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, April 12 to 15, 2018
Omni William Penn 
(full conference details at https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html)

16.4 Creature Re-feature: Frankenstein at 200
Saturday, Apr 14; Track 16 (01:30-03:00)

Chair: Rikk Mulligan, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Carnegie III (Media Equipped)

Cultural Studies and Media Studies & Anglophone

"Fresh Horrors of Frankenstein: Representations in Recent Comics"
Michael Torregrossa, Unaffiliated

"Liberal Secret Agent Frankenstein"
Avery Wiscomb, Carnegie Mellon University

"Dreadful Doctor: Tempering Genius with Empathy to End the Curse of Frankenstein"
Rikk Mulligan, Carnegie Mellon University

"Mary Shelley among the Daleks: Reconfigurations of Frankenstein in the New Doctor Who"
Timothy Ruppert, Slippery Rock University
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