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Hunting Frankenstein - Limited Edition Hardcover (Pre-order)

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Autumn 2026

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The story of Victor Frankenstein's reanimated monster is one of the greatest works of horror ever published, but is it merely fiction? Was the deathly creature's stormy resurrection inspired by true events? What is the real history of the ruined castle high above the Rhine Valley in German Bavaria? Who was the secretive alchemist performing forbidden experiments within the castle walls, and did he truly create an elixir of life from the bodies of the dead?

Legend-hunter Christopher Rondina returns to the mountains of Germany to seek out the truth behind the iconic tale of a mad scientist and his terrifying creation!

 

HUNTING FRANKENSTEIN is available now for pre-order!

This signed and numbered hardcover is limited to just 25 copies, and will ship in September of 2026, exclusively from GhostBoyPress!

Coming Soon Bride of Frankenstein (film|minutes)

Found on Amazon:

Bride of Frankenstein (film|minutes) 

Paperback – September 9, 2025

by Shane Denson (Author)

Full details and preview at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1643150847/.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lever Press

Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 9, 2025

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 215 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1643150847

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1643150840

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.49 x 7 inches

The inaugural volume in the film|minutes book series, this book offers a close, minute-by-minute analysis of director James Whale’s iconic 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein. Alternating between a variety of analytical lenses, including descriptive, historical, and philosophical, this study breaks from conventional forms of film-analytical writing and offers an experiment in defamiliarization and looking anew. In the 1930s, the film opened a space for reflection on the rapid normalization of filmic sound, which it both relies on and estranges. In the 2020s, Bride of Frankenstein brings forth questions of new technological mediums such as artificial intelligence and the transformation of human agency. Shane Denson argues that such associations should not be written off as mere anachronism, but seen, rather, as a strategy of serialization; that is, it is by means of such anachronism that a film like Bride of Frankenstein remains open to new developments and novel situations, and thus comes alive for future viewers.

Volumes in the film|minutes series cut up films into segments of exactly one minute and transform each minute into an innovative tool for thinking with the film. Each volume works rigorously with the concept of “the minute” as a non-cinematic scale/quantity, a means to zoom in on (dis)orderly fragments that do not necessarily respect the confinements of cinematic form or meaning. As a critical practice, the focus on minutes causes disruptions and displacement that create novel connections and perspectives, and uncovers hidden traces, making it possible to watch each film anew.

About the Author

Shane Denson is Professor of Film and Media Studies, and by courtesy, of German Studies and of Communication at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature. His research interests span a variety of media and historical periods, including phenomenological and media-philosophical approaches to film, digital media, and serialized popular forms.

Creatures of Fancy – Mary Shelley in Dundee (2019)

I recently came across this interesting collection from the Abertay Historical Society of Dundee, Scotland.

Creatures of Fancy – Mary Shelley in Dundee (2019)

£7.50; ISBN 978-0-900019-61-6

A book of essays exploring Mary Shelley’s time in Dundee, the influence it would have on her life and work, and the rapidly growing scientific and cultural life of the town in the early 19th century.

The book can be ordered directly from the Abertay Historical Society at https://abertay.org.uk/product/creatures-of-fancy-mary-shelley-in-dundee-2019/. There is also an associated presentation available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCOfld9m8j8&t=4s&ab_channel=AbertayHistoricalSociety. 

Description

CREATURES OF FANCY – MARY SHELLEY IN DUNDEE

Gordon Bannerman, Kenneth Baxter, Daniel Cook, Matthew Jarron

In June 1812 the future author of Frankenstein, Mary Godwin (later Mrs Percy Shelley), arrived in Dundee as a guest of the Baxter family. Her time in the rapidly developing town would have a significant influence on her – here for the first time she was inspired to become a writer.

This publication looks at Mary’s connections to Dundee through three separate essays, with a foreword by Billy Kay. In the first chapter, Gordon Bannerman describes the background to her visit, the connections between her family and that of textile merchant William Thomas Baxter, the friendship she developed with Baxter’s daughter Isabella and the subsequent influence of Isabella’s husband David Booth. All of this is considered in the context of the unique religious and political life of Dundee.

Mary’s visit coincided with notable developments in medicine and an increasing interest in studying nature and science, as well as a growth of popular literature and a new theatre for the town. In the second chapter, Matthew Jarron and Kenneth Baxter explore both the cultural and scientific life of Dundee at this time.

In the final chapter, Daniel Cook examines the depiction of Scotland in both Frankenstein and a later novel, The Last Man, showing that Mary’s experiences during her time here continued to have an impact on her work.

CFP Frankensteinian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video (11/30/2025)

Frankensteinian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video

deadline for submissions:
November 30, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Assoc. Prof. Ela İpek Gündüz, Gaziantep University, Turkey & Dr. Ercan Gürova, Ankara University, Turkey

contact email:
frankensteinianresonance@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/29/frankensteinian-resonance-transtemporal-reanimations-in-fiction-film-and-video

Call for Book Chapters

Frankensteinian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video

“Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series

Editors’ Introduction

Considering the still resonating waves of Mary Shelley’s timeless novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus (1818), due to its conveying the notions, issues, and messages which are both relevant to current times, and as a reflection of its own time, ‘Frankenstein’ continues to be a very appealing trope, phenomenon or myth. The very idea of “humaneness” is speculated continuously due to the embeddedness of the “Frankenstein” the creator, the monster, and the novel itself, including its writer, within the literary and cultural landscape. It is an undeniable fact that it has been perpetually remembered and reinvented due to its uniqueness, even in the 21st century, prompting producers to adapt it. Yet, how it affects, appeals to, finds correspondences with, and elicits reactions or appreciations may be varied. Nevertheless, regardless of this differentiation in both the re-handlings and/or remembering, as well as the responses, the very speciality of the text remains visible. Notwithstanding the conventions of the genres or the adaptation mediums, as a very special text, Frankenstein transgresses the socio-cultural and even spatio-temporal boundaries that pave the way for the appreciation of contemporary readers and/or audiences.

The proposed edited volume, Frankensteineian Resonance: Transtemporal Reanimations in Fiction, Film, and Video, seeks to provide a rigorous, interdisciplinary exploration of how the Frankenstein mythos continues to evolve, adapt, and resonate across contemporary media landscapes. The volume thus proposes Frankenstein as a transtextual and transtemporal entity, a metaphorical conduit through which trauma, memory, identity, and otherness are endlessly renegotiated. It examines how contemporary rewritings and adaptations, spanning various genres and platforms, reveal the persistence of Frankensteinian concerns with artificial life, the ethics of creation, and the blurred boundaries between human and nonhuman. By assembling approximately 20 original chapters that analyse iconic novels, films, video games, and theatrical adaptations through transtemporal lenses, this collection aims to contribute to Gothic studies, adaptation theory, science fiction criticism, and broader discussions on the posthuman condition. Contributions will be selected through an open international call targeting scholars in literature, film, and cultural studies with PhDs or equivalent credentials.

Each contributor will offer a close and original analysis of a novel, film, or media work that actively reimagines the Frankenstein myth. Rather than adopting a purely descriptive approach, each chapter will develop a coherent and critical argument, connecting the selected work to key interpretive frameworks, such as monstrosity, hybridity, technological creation, identity fragmentation, and moral ambiguity.

Contributors will be asked to choose a specific fictional or cinematic text and engage it through relevant theoretical and cultural lenses. While the exact titles and authors of the chapters will be finalised after the acceptance of proposals, all chapters will be unified by the volume’s overarching interest in Frankenstein as a resonant, reconfigurable myth that speaks to evolving human concerns.

Please choose one of the topics listed below as the focus of your chapter. Proposals should clearly identify the selected work (novel, film, or media) and your theoretical framework.



Part I - Literary Re-Visitations/ Rewritings

1-Frankenstein Unbound (1973) by Brian W. Aldiss

2-The Frankenstein Papers (1986) by Fred Saberhagen

3-Poor Things (1992) by Alasdair Gray

4-The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995) by Theodore Roszak

5-The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008) by Peter Ackroyd

6-Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) by Ahmed Saadawi

7-Frankissstein: A Love Story (2019) by Jeanette Winterson

8-Heart of a Dog (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov

9-Golem (1915) by Gustav Meyrink

10-The Sandman (1816) by E.T.A Hoffmann



Part II- Movie/ Theatre/Video Game Adaptations



1-Frankenstein (1931) & Bride of Frankenstein (1935) – Dir. James Whale

2-The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) – Dir. Terence Fisher

3-Young Frankenstein (1974) – Dir. Mel Brooks

4-Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) – Dir. Kenneth Branagh

5-Frankenstein (2004) – Dir. Marcus Nispel

6-Victor Frankenstein (2015) – Dir. Paul McGuigan

7-Frankenstein (2015) – Dir. Bernard Rose

8-The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015–2017) – ITV Series

9-Frankenstein (1981) – by Victor Gialanella

10-Frankenstein – Playing with Fire (1988) – by Barbara Field

11-Frankenstein (2007) – by Nick Dear, directed by Danny Boyle

12-Frankenstein (2017) a musical theatre adaptation by Eric B. Sirota

13-Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster (1995)

14-Frankenstein: Master of Death (2015)

15-Frankenstein: Beyond the Time (2016)

16-Frankenstein Wars (2017)

17-Poor Things (2023)



Submission Details and Timeline

Please send a 300–500 word abstract describing the proposed chapter’s theory/framework, contributions, and structure, and a brief bio (100–150 words) to frankensteinianresonance@gmail.com

The abstract submission deadline is November 30, 2025.

Submission of Complete Chapters (for selected abstracts): March 30, 2026.

Final chapters will be expected to be around 5500-6000 words, in English, and referenced in MLA 9 style.

The book is expected to be published in late 2026, following peer review and editorial revisions.

All submissions will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process.

For inquiries and questions, please feel free to contact us at frankensteinianresonance@gmail.com



Editors: Assoc. Prof. Ela İpek Gündüz, Gaziantep University, Turkey

Dr. Ercan Gürova, Ankara University, Turkey



Last updated August 4, 2025

CFP Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference) (9/15/2025; online 11/21/2025)

Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference)

deadline for submissions:
September 15, 2025

full name / name of organization:
West of Canon Press

contact email:
editor@westofcanon.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/24/frankology-or-the-thoroughly-modern-prometheus-a-re-vision-of-sensualities-in



Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference)



West of Canon Press seeks papers and presentations on Frankenstein from academics, artists, and folks across disciplines for a virtual conference celebrating the long legacy of this incredible book. We are looking for academic style papers as well as creative responses to Frankenstein and its related media.



A non-comprehensive list of what we’re hoping to see and include:

• Transgender identity (specifically transmasculinities) in Frankenstein and other works by the Romantics.
• Lake Geneva studies- Looking at Shelley-adjacent Romantics in a different light (discussions of polyamory and free love welcome.).
• The poetics of monstrosity
• Incest and queerness in Frankenstein
• Disability studies and Frankenstein
• Indigiqueer and racialized perspectives on Frankenstein
• Cinematic depictions of the creature, including Karloff, Warhol, Zelda Williams, Hammer Horror, James Whale etc.
• Theatre, music, and dance iterations of Frankenstein.
• Adaptations and responses ie. Frank Kiss Stein, Ex Machina, Penny Dreadful, Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Frankenstein in Baghdad, Junji Ito’s manga, Young Frankenstein, Danny Boyle’s stage adaptation with Benedict Cumberbatch
• Guillermo del Toro’s longstanding love affair with Frankenstein.
• Nautical queerness, eco-queerness and homoeroticism in Frankenstein
• The epistolary
• Phenomenology
• The cadaver and the soul; complicating ‘new life’ in Frankenstein via crime, race, religion etc.
• Filmic lore about Frankenstein which is parallel to canon but taken as truth; peg necks, Elizabeth as the Bride etc.
• Everyone’s Met Frankenstein: Frankenstein’s pop culture encounters with The Munsters, Scooby-Doo, Abbott and Costello, Alvin and the Chipmunks etc.
• Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley
• Frankenstein and queer collaboration.
• Mental Illness and neurodiversity.
• Frankenstein, editorial processes, and collaboration.
• Artificial Intelligence as Adam
• Short stories, poems, plays, songs, dance, art-works, etc.,

The conference will hopefully conclude with a viewing of Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of the work, which Netflix says is scheduled for November of this year, but we will have a firm date of Friday November 21, 2025. CV, artist’s statement, and abstracts of 200-500 words for a 20 minute presentation, panel or creative project can be sent to Oscar Anderson at editor@westofcanon.com by September 15. 

While we’re not requiring content warnings for abstracts, please inform ahead if there’s any part of your presentation or abstract that flashes and/or contains bright light.


Last updated June 26, 2025

CFP Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work (1/15/2026)

Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work

deadline for submissions:
January 15, 2026

full name / name of organization:
Cynthia Richards and Shawn Lisa Maurer

contact email:
crichards@wittenberg.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/27/routledge-companion-to-mary-wollstonecraft-wollstonecraft-at-work


Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work
Call for Papers

Mary Wollstonecraft’s contributions as a philosopher are uncontested, her reputation cemented by such recent publications as The Wollstonecraftian Mind (Routledge, 2019), the first collection on a woman philosopher to appear in the Routledge Philosophical Minds series. By contrast, her work as a writer remains unsettled. We know her work to be passionate: angry with Edmund Burke, she composed the Vindication of the Rights of Man in six weeks. She writes Letters Written During a Short Residence to an indifferent lover, the American businessman Gilbert Imlay, and through her romantically charged descriptions, wins the reluctant affections of the Enlightenment philosopher William Godwin instead. As this example makes manifest, if Wollstonecraft succeeds as a writer, it seemingly happens by accident, a byproduct of the fervor of her convictions. We grant her a place in the literary canon because her influence is undeniable and not because the quality of her production is uniform and unassailable.

This Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft will challenge this reading by focusing on Wollstonecraft as a writer at work, a writer consciously and deliberately innovating to produce a rich and varied oeuvre that reveals forms of intellectual and professional labor beyond her better-known philosophical treatises and novels. Instead, this volume will make the case for Wollstonecraft as an artist first and a polemicist second, yet an artist whose creative interventions stayed true to her principles in the face of conservative backlash. In this regard, the volume comes closest to emulating The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (2002) while building upon the more multidisciplinary Mary Wollstonecraft in Context (Cambridge 2020).

Yet even as the volume will argue for the intrinsic quality of her writing, it will also recognize that the work remains incomplete. The Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) had a planned second volume that was never realized; The Wrongs of Woman (1798) was published unfinished. Her primer to her young daughter, Fanny, has yet to be published as a stand-alone text. But her work also remains incomplete because it continues to exert such a powerful force more than two hundred years after her death. Although the feminist political implications of her work, which continues to be “constantly re-moulded in feminism’s changing image,” as Barbara Taylor writes, have been traced in multiple ways, the impact of her literary production and readers’ engagement with that multifaceted work, in the academy, in popular culture, and in the classroom, has yet to be fully explored.

We envision essays relating to three broad categories–Wollstonecraft at Work, Wollstonecraft in the World, and Wollstonecraft in the Classroom–and invite essays on all stages of Wollstonecraft’s career and all genres in which she worked. Possible topics might include Wollstonecraft as a working woman/professional writer/public intellectual; Wollstonecraft as an artistic innovator; Wollstonecraft’s growth and development; Wollstonecraft and visual culture; Wollstonecraft as an educator. We also seek essays that address Wollstonecraft’s historical as well as contemporary resonances in literary, artistic, and feminist political contexts across the globe. We encourage reflections on the productive imbrications of Wollstonecraft’s life and work; on her critical reception, her artistic legacies, and her place in popular culture. Finally, we invite essays on editing and teaching Wollstonecraft’s work. How is her influence felt throughout the world and how is her work taught in various regions and countries? How does she continue to educate us and our students?

We welcome preliminary proposals on these or related topics. Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words to both editors via email by January 15, 2026.

Shawn Lisa Maurer (College of the Holy Cross): smaurer@holycross.edu

Cynthia Richards (Wittenberg University): crichards@wittenberg.edu



Last updated July 3, 2025

Coming Soon - Oxford World's Classics Edition of Mathilda

Mathilda
Mary Shelley

Edited by Deanna P. Koretsky
Oxford World's Classics

Full details and ordering information at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mathilda-9780192883049. 

A new edition of Mary Shelley's second novel, which remained unpublished until 1959 due to its themes of suicide and incest

Offers an original transcription from the only known manuscript copy of Mathilda; one of only three original transcriptions in circulation

Examines how the major themes in the book reflect the political discourse of the time and presents new avenues for understanding Shelley's views on gender and sexuality

Includes appendices such as 'The Mourner,' Shelley's retelling of Mathilda set in the context of transatlantic slavery, and other texts that help readers understand the breadth of Shelley's social consciousness



Paperback

This item is not yet published. It is available for pre-orders and will ship on 13 May 2025.

208 Pages

7.7 x 5.1 inches

ISBN: 9780192883049

Out in 2026 - Oxford World's Classics Combined Edition of The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow

The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Edited by Eileen M. Hunt
Oxford World's Classics

Full details and ordering information at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-last-man-and-the-journal-of-sorrow-9780198892793.

Presents two of Mary Shelley's most important works, never before published together

Includes a new introduction drawing out connections between Shelley's novel and the journal, and their relationships to political science fiction and life writing

Shelley's groundbreaking The Last Man was the first major modern telling of postapocalyptic pandemic which still resonates 200 years after publication


Paperback

This item is not yet published. It is available for pre-orders and will ship on 13 April 2026.

512 Pages

7.7 x 5.1 inches

ISBN: 9780198892793

Coming Soon History of A Six Weeks' Tour Oxford World's Classics Edition

History of A Six Weeks' Tour: Through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Edited by Cian Duffy and Anna Mercer
Oxford World's Classics

Full details and ordering information at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/history-of-a-six-weeks-tour-9780192858276.

Published for the first time in paperback, detailing the account of two journeys made by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

An important and revealing but less well-known work by two of the most famous authors of the Romantic period

Includes a detailed introduction, explanatory notes, appendices, and maps


Paperback

This item is not yet published. It is available for pre-orders and will ship on 13 August 2025.

192 Pages | 3 maps

7.7 x 5.1 inches

ISBN: 9780192858276

Recent Publication - A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (2023)

Sorry to have missed this earlier.

Non-Fiction Title: A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Publisher site: https://ifwgpublishing.com/non-fiction-title-a-vindication-of-monsters-essays-on-mary-wollstonecraft-and-mary-shelley/.

In 1797 an extraordinary visionary died, leaving behind a grieving husband, a two-year-old daughter, and a newborn. The woman was Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Fanny Imlay, and her baby Mary Godwin, who, through many trials and tribulations, grew up to become the remarkable Mary Shelley, creator of one of the most important books in literature: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus.

While many books have examined both women’s lives, their remarkable similarities, their passions, joys, and their grief, A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, delves deeper into the stories behind both women, their connections to historical events, society, their philosophies, and their political contributions to their time. These essays and memoirs explore Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Shelley’s circle of friends, including her husband, the capricious poet Percy Shelley; the libertine Romantic Lord Byron; the first modern vampire author John Polidori; and other contemporary creatives who continue to be inspired by both women today.

Contents:

Preface by Sara Karloff, actress and Boris Karloff’s daughter
Introduction (‘Examining Frankenstein’) by Leslie S. Klinger (editor of the highly-acclaimed New Annotated Frankenstein)
Foreword by Lisa Morton, six-time Bram Stoker Award® winner
‘In His Eyes Our Own Yearning: Seeing Mary Shelley and Her Creature’ by Nancy Holder
‘The Maker Remade: Mary Shelley In Fiction’ by Matthew R Davis
‘Beauty And The Grotesque’ by Michele Brittany
‘Mary Shelley And The World Of Monsters’ by Rob Hood
‘An Articulation Of Beauty In The Film ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’’ by Donald Prentice Jr
‘Mapping The Collective Body Of Frankenstein’s Brides’ by Carina Bissett
‘Marys And Motherhood’ and Preamble by Claire Fitzpatrick
‘Don’t Feed The Monsters’ by Hk Stubbs
‘My Mother Hands Me A Book’ by Piper Mejia
‘A Bold Question: Consent And The Experimental Subject In Frankenstein’ by Octavia Cade
‘Mary Shelley And Percy Shelley’s Fascination With The Creation Myth And Sexual Androgyny’ by Ciarán Bruder
‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein And Revenge Killers’ by Anthony P Fergusson
‘Medicine And Mary Shelley’ by Grant Butler
‘Frankenstein’s Language Model’ by Jason Franks
‘Mary Shelley: Pandemics, Isolation, And Writing’ by Lee Murray
‘Mary W And Mary S: A Story With Objects’ by Lucy Sussex

A comprehensive essay on the motivations and content of this book by the editor, Claire Fitzpatrick (in Ginger Nuts of Horror).

A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Edited by Claire Fitzpatrick
Non-Fiction
English language
ISBN: 978-1-922856-40-1 (print)
978-1-922856-41-8 (ebook)
RRP: US$16.99 (US$6.99 ebook)
Publisher: IFWG Publishing International
252 pages – paperback, English
Binding: Perfect bound
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm
eBook and Print Formats: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBook
Key Words: Non-fiction; Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Shelley; essays; gothic literature; horror; literature;
Publication Date: 15 October 2023 (global release)
Distributor: World-wide through IPG (IPG specific in North America, NewSouth Books (partner) in Australia/New Zealand, and UID(Marsden/Eurospan) in UK/Europe)

CFP Mary Shelley Today: *Frankenstein* in the Twenty-First Century (2/1/2025)

Mary Shelley Today: *Frankenstein* in the Twenty-First Century

deadline for submissions:
February 1, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Timothy Ruppert and Danette DiMarco

contact email:
timothy.ruppert@sru.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/26/mary-shelley-today-frankenstein-in-the-twenty-first-century

Mary Shelley Today: Frankenstein in the Twenty-First Century seeks to reevaluate the influence of Mary Shelley, and particularly her most prominent novel, on literature and imaginative work of the last quarter century (defined as 1999-2024). This project engages with works and authors on whom little has been written to date in the hope of providing exciting new resources for Romanticists and general readers alike.

We seek contributions between 4,500-6,500 words. While we do not wish to delimit authors in terms of focus, we will give special preference to scholarship on undertreated works and writers, for example, Seanan McGuire’s Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017), Theodora Goss’s The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (2017), Kiersten White’s The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein (2018), John Kessel’s Pride and Prometheus (2018), Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (trans. 2018), and Jennifer McMahon’s The Children on the Hill (2022). We are also interested in reinterpretations of Frankenstein in other genres, including works such as the Japanese manga series Fullmetal Alchemist,cinematic products such as Larry Fessenden’s 2019 Depraved or the Doctor Who episode ‘The Haunting of Villa Diodati’ (2020), or stage plays such as Eric Sirota’s musical adaptation of Frankenstein (2017). Please note that we already have a chapter concerning Peter Lovesey’s 1999 novel, The Vault, and so will not accept submissions exclusively concerning that work.

Please submit a 500/1,000-word proposal along with your contact information and a biographical note (up to 200 words) to both co-editors by 1 February 2025. Further details on style and formatting will be provided to prospective contributors upon acceptance.

Accepted contributors should plan to submit complete book chapters (4,500/6,500 words, including references and footnotes) by 1 August 2025.

This volume is already under contract to a leading academic publisher, so the manuscript will likely go for peer review in late 2025. The projected publication date is 2026. Please contact both Danette DiMarco (danette.dimarco@sru.edu) and Timothy Ruppert (timothy.ruppert@sru.edu) with any questions.



Last updated January 2, 2025