Celebrating in 2025: the 115th anniversary of Edison’s Frankenstein (1910), the 90th anniversary of Bride of Frankenstein (1935), the 80th anniversary of Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein for Prize Comics (1945-54) and the Frankenstein adaptation in Classic Comics #26 (December 1945), the 60th anniversary of Milton the Monster (1965–67), the 50th anniversary of the film version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the 10th anniversary of Graham Nolan and Chuck Dixon’s Joe Frankenstein.

Friday, March 1, 2024

Frankenstein Sessions at NeMLA 2024

They Live: Female Monsters and Their Impact on the Frankenstein Tradition and Elsewhere 

Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association 

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa


55th NeMLA Convention

Boston, MA

7-10 March 2024


Friday
Mar 8 Track 11
04:45-06:15

11.20 They Live: Female Monsters and Their Impact on the Frankenstein Tradition and Elsewhere (Part 1)
Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College
Location: Gardner B (Media Equipped)
British & Cultural Studies and Media Studies

"From Prometheus to Pygmalion to Pandora: The Feminist Threat of Frankenstein’s 'Dark Brides'" Kyle Bishop, Southern Utah University

"Hypertext, the Female Monster, and Other Boundary Creatures in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl" Callie Ingram, University at Buffalo, SUNY

"'I am no one’s': Subverting the ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ in The Frankenstein Chronicles " Sophie-Constanze Bantle, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg


Saturday
Mar 9 Track 14
10:00-11:30

14.18 They Live: Female Monsters and Their Impact on the Frankenstein Tradition and Elsewhere (Part 2)
Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College
Location: Hampton B (Media Equipped)
British & Cultural Studies and Media Studies

"The Bride Who Survived: Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl (1995) and its Female Monster" Jonathan Rose, University of Passau

"'No more let Life divide...': Serial Brides in Penny Dreadful and The Frankenstein Chronicles " Federica Perazzini, Sapienza-Università di Roma

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