Counting down to 2024: The sixtieth anniversary of The Munsters, the fiftieth anniversary of Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder's Young Frankenstein, the fortieth anniversary of Tim Burton's original Frankenweenie, the thirtieth anniversary of Kenneth Branagh’s film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Universal Studios’ television series Monster Force, the twentieth anniversary of Geof Darrow and Steve Skroce’s comic Doc Frankenstein and Stephen Sommers’s film Van Helsing, and the tenth anniversary of Stuart Beattie’s I, 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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