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

Updated CFP. Please note, this call has educational restrictions for applicants.

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 Palgrave Macmillan

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 [Accepted]

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

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[Accepted]

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

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 [Accepted]

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

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

5-Frankenstein (2004) – Dir. Marcus Nispel

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

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 October 24, 2025

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

Bain on ‘Frankenbitch[es]’: Adapting Frankenstein’s Female Monster in Literature and Film

Sorry to have missed this earlier. New scholarship on female Frankenstein monsters:



Bain, Gracie. “ ‘Frankenbitch[es]’: Adapting Frankenstein’s Female Monster in Literature and Film.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 4, Fall 2022, https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/50_4/frankenbitches_adapting_frankensteins_female_monster_in_literature_and_film.html.

Out Now - New Edition of The Frankenstein Legend

First published in 1973, The Frankenstein Legend: A Tribute to Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff, written by Donald F. Glut, has recently been re-issued in a second edition (published by Strange Particle Press in 2022). The work covers Shelley's novel and its adaptation on stage and screen (both film and television), for radio, in fiction, and as comics. 

Comprising over 400 pages, much of the content is repeated from the original edition, but Glur has included new and/or updated images to accompany the text. In addition, Glut adds a new illustrated afterword that provides updates to various sections of the text. 

I couldn't find a direct link for Strange Particle Press, but the book can be purchased from various online booksellers as print-on-demand and electronic versions. 

CFP Frankenstein: Two Hundred Years of Monsters Conference (expired)

Came across this by accident today; sadly, it is also expired.

Frankenstein: Two Hundred Years of Monsters
http://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/frankenstein-two-hundred-years-monsters


- Call for Papers -

Frankenstein 2018: Two Hundred Years of Monsters

12 ‐ 15 September 2018
The Australian National University and the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra


Nearly two centuries after its anonymous publication on 1 January 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus remains as topical as ever. Its core story - of a recklessly ambitious and naïve scientist whose artificial, human-like creature arouses only horror and disgust, and escapes control to seek revenge on his creator - has become, for better or worse, the techno‐scientific fable of modernity. First adapted for stage by Richard Brinsley Peake in 1823, and for film by Edison Studios in 1910, the story has inspired more theatre, film, television and other adaptations than any other modern narrative, with more than 50 screen adaptations appearing in the 2010s alone. From Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show to The Addams Family, the Frankenstein myth reaches into every recess of high and popular culture.

We invite proposals for 20-­minute papers or 3 x 20‐minute panel sessions from scholars across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences that respond in interdisciplinary ways to this most interdisciplinary of novels, including, but not limited to:

• Literary studies, especially of the long eighteenth century, Romanticism, Victorian and neo­‐Victorian literature
• Re-tellings and re-­‐imaginings of the Frankenstein story in various modes and genres, e.g. SF, steampunk, speculative fiction, slash fiction, etc.
• Film, television, theatre and performance, and visual studies
• Digital humanities, reception studies, histories of popular culture, and media ecologies
• Gender studies, queer theory, and the history of sexuality
• Disability studies and post‐humanism
• The history of medicine, especially reproductive technologies
• Science and technology studies; images and imaginaries of science and scientists
• The history and philosophy of biology, especially in relation to vitalism
• Eco‐criticism and the Anthropocene
• Affect theory and the history of emotions
• Frankenstein and race, colonialism, empire
• Global and local Frankensteins, e.g. Australian Frankensteins
• Frankenstein and material history
• Cyborgs, robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
• Synthetic biology, genetic engineering, and artificial life

To maintain order among this menagerie of monsters, we propose the following four overarching themes, each of which will be addressed by one of our keynote speakers:

Frankenstein in 1818: historicising the monster
(Professor Sharon Ruston, Lancaster)

Frankenstein as scientific fable: from grave-­‐robbing and galvanism to synthetic biology and machine learning
(Professor Genevieve Bell, Australian National University)

Adaptation and experimentation: Frankenstein in film and other media
(Assistant Professor Shane Denson, Stanford)

Frankenstein’s queer family: gender, sexuality, reproduction and the work of care
(Professor Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara)


Please send proposals for papers or sessions - including a title, 250­‐word abstract, and brief author biography - to Dr Russell Smith at russell.smith@anu.edu.au.

The deadline for proposals is 6 April 2018. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee comprising scholars from the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, and applicants will be informed of the outcome within two weeks of the submission deadline. Please note that we will endeavour to notify overseas applicants earlier if they submit proposals before the submission deadline.

For further information and updates, as well as information about the Humanities Research Centre’s annual theme for 2018, Imagining Science and Technology 200 Years after Frankenstein, see here.

Please direct any inquiries to Penny Brew at hrc@anu.edu.au.

Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture

This looks like a great (and affordable) text to pair with the Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein. I wish it was out now.

Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture

Edited by Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry

http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526108913/

(North American distribution through Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/adapting-frankenstein-9781526108913?cc=us&lang=en&)

Book Information

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0891-3
Pages: 400
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Price: £25.00
Published Date: August 2018

Available in North America for $39.95 beginning 01 October 2018.

Description

 

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinées. Beginning with the idea of the 'Frankenstein Complex', this edited collection provides a series of creative readings that explore the elaborate intertextual networks that make up the novel's remarkable afterlife. It broadens the scope of research on Frankenstein while deepening our understanding of a text that, 200 years after its original publication, continues to intrigue and terrify us in new and unexpected ways. 

 

 

Contents

 

Introduction

The Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text - Dennis Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry

Part I: Dramatic adaptations of Frankenstein on stage and radio

1 Frankenstein's spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy - Lissette Lopez Szwydky

2 A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or 'It Lives!': adaptive symbiosis and Peake's Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein - Glenn Jellenik

3 The gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein - Laurence Raw

Part II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein

4 A paranoid parable of adaptation: Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age - Dennis R. Perry

5 The Curse of Frankenstein: Hammer film studios' reinvention of horror cinema - Morgan C. O'Brien

6 The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen: Mary Shelley's motivic novel as adjacent adaptation - Kyle Bishop

7 The new ethics of Frankenstein: responsibility and obedience in I, Robot and X-Men: First Class - Matt Lorenz

8 Hammer films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project - Maria K. Bachman and Paul Peterson

Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein

9 'Plainly stitched together': Frankenstein, neo-Victorian fiction, and the palimpsestuous literary past - Jamie Horrocks

10 Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland: monstrous marriage, maternity, and the politics of embodiment - Carol Margaret Davison

11 Young Frankensteins: graphic children's texts and the twenty-first-century monster - Jessica Straley

12 In his image: the mad scientist remade in the young adult novel - Farran Norris Sands

13 The soul of the matter: Frankenstein meets H. P. Lovecraft's 'Herbert West-Reanimator' - Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Part IV: Frankenstein in art, illustrations, and comics: from X-Men to steampunk

14 Illustration, adaptation and the development of Frankenstein's visual lexicon - Kate Newell

15 'The X-Men meet Frankenstein! "Nuff Said"': adapting Mary Shelley's monster in superhero comic books- Joe Darowski

16 Expressionism, deformity and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein - Véronique Bragard and Catherine Thewissen

Part V: New media adaptations of Frankenstein

17 Assembling the body/text: Frankenstein in new media - Tully Barnett and Ben Kooyman

18 Adaptations of 'liveness' in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Kelly Jones

Afterword

Frankenstein's pulse: an afterword - Richard J. Hand

Index

Editors

Dennis R. Cutchins is Associate Professor of American Literature at Brigham Young University

Dennis R. Perry is Associate Professor of American Literature at Brigham Young University

Frankenstein 200 Exhibition Catalog

I wasn't sure what this was when I pre-ordered it, but is an interesting addition to my collection. The book is the catalog (with images and description) of a current exhibition at Indiana University's Lilly Library. I'm glad they have preserved the content for posterity.


Frankenstein 200:The Birth, Life, and Resurrection of Mary Shelley's Monster
Rebecca Baumann, foreword by Jonathan Kearns
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809318
(also available on JSTOR at http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt22p7j32)


Indiana University Press
Distribution: World
Publication date: 04/25/2018
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-253-03905-7
Paperback: $25.00
Other formats available:ebook $24.99

Two centuries ago, a teenage genius created a monster that still walks among us. In 1818, Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, and in doing so set forth into the world a scientist and his monster. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, famed women’s rights advocate, and William Godwin, radical political thinker and writer, Mary Shelley is considered the mother of the modern genres of horror and science fiction. At its core, however, Shelley’s Frankenstein is a contemplation on what it means to be human, what it means to chase perfection, and what it means to fear things suchsuch things as ugliness, loneliness, and rejection.

In celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, the Lilly Library at Indiana University presents Frankenstein 200: The Birth, Life, and Resurrection of Mary Shelley’s Monster. This beautifully illustrated catalog looks closely at Mary Shelley’s life and influences, examines the hundreds of reincarnations her book and its characters have enjoyed, and highlights the vast, deep, and eclectic collections of the Lilly Library. This exhibition catalog is a celebration of books, of the monstrousness that exists within us all, and of the genius of Mary Shelley.


Contents:


Foreword: Cavendish’s Daughters: Speculative Fiction and Women’s History by Jonathan Kearns

Stitched and Bound by Love and Fear: Books, Monsters, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Rebecca Baumann

Case 1: Mary Shelley and the Birth of Frankenstein

Case 2: Mary and Percy

Case 3: Mary Beyond Frankenstein

Case 4: Mary’s Father, William Godwin

Case 5: Mary’s Mother, Mary Wollstonecraft

Case 6: Mad Science

Case 7: The Gothic

Case 8: The Monster’s Books

Case 9: Victor Frankenstein’s Books

Case 10: Frankenstein in Popular Culture (includes comics)

Case 11: The Undead

Case 12: Artificial Life

Case 13: Adapting Frankenstein

Case 14: Illustrating Frankenstein

Case 15: Outsiders and Others

Case 16: More Monsters

Case 17 and Case 18: Weird Women

Bibliography


Author Bio:

Rebecca Baumann is Head of Public Services at the Lilly Library of Indiana University and adjunct faculty with the Department of Information and Library Science. Baumann is obsessively passionate about sharing the library’s eclectic and wide-ranging collections with visitors of all sorts. Her research interests center on the history of the book, with special emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century British and American science fiction, horror, crime, and pulp. She considers herself a defender of weird books and a friend to all monsters.

Program for Why Frankenstein Matters at 200 (Rome 7/3-6/2018)

WHY FRANKENSTEIN MATTERS AT 200:
RETHINKING THE HUMAN THROUGH THE ARTS AND SCIENCES

Program: http://sites.nd.edu/operation-frankenstein/program/

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
ROME GLOBAL GATEWAY

3-6 JULY 2018
CO-ORGANIZERS:
Eileen Hunt Botting (Political Theory, University of Notre Dame)
Agustín Fuentes (Anthropology, University of Notre Dame)
Greg Kucich (English, University of Notre Dame)

Tuesday July 3
3-5pm                          Registration at Global Gateway. Please bring presentations on jump drives to load onto computer terminal for conference sessions.

Wednesday July 4
8-8:30am                     Coffee and Registration at Global Gateway
8:30am                        Welcome and Opening Remarks by Co-organizers & Giuseppe Albano, Director, Keats-Shelley House, Rome

9-10:30am                  PANEL
“It was on a dreary night of November”:
AESTHETICS AND IMAGINATIONS
Joyce Carol Oates (Creative Writing, Princeton University)
“Frankenstein and ‘Monstrous Imagination’”
David Archard (Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast)
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Evil and Monstrosity”
Steven B. Smith (Political Theory, Yale University)
“Emile, Frankenstein, and the Ethics of Science and the Scientific Imagination”
Chair: Eileen Hunt Botting (Political Theory, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Three 20-minute papers followed by 30-minute discussion with audience

10:30-11am                 Coffee Break in Global Gateway

11am-12:30pm           PANEL
“The accomplishment of my toils”:
SAVAGES, SCIENTISTS, AND THE (NON)HUMAN
Susan Wolfson (English, Princeton University)
“Reading at the Limits: Frankenstein and the ‘Savage Man’”
Peta Katz and Jonathan Marks (Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
“Frankenstein and the moral dimension of life science”
Tracy Betsinger (Anthropology, SUNY-Oneonta)
“Frankenstein’s Creature and Vampires: Embodiments of Fear”
Chair: Greg Kucich (English, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Three 20-minute papers then 30-minute discussion with audience

12:30-2:30pm              Lunch Break in Rome

2:30-5pm                    ROUNDTABLE AND FILM SCREENING
“I collected the instruments of life around me”:
RACE, GENDER, AND (RE)PRODUCTION
Elizabeth Young (English and Gender Studies, Mt. Holyoke College)
“Black Frankenstein at 200”
Alan Coffee (Political Theory, King’s College London)
“Slave Narrative and (or in) Frankenstein”
Serena Baiesi (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Bologna)
“Strange, supernatural, and necromantic adventure”: Mary Shelley’s gothic stories and the inherence of Frankenstein”
Ronald Levao (English, Rutgers University)
“Meta-Cinematic Metaphors in James Whale’s Films”
Chair: Devi Snively (Independent Filmmaker)
Format: Four 15-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with the audience 

4-4:15pm        Break

4:15-5pm        SCREENING OF “BRIDE OF FRANKIE” (2017),
an independent film directed by Devi Snively and produced by Agustín Fuentes
Format: screening of short film “Bride of Frankie,” followed by 25 minutes of discussion with director, producer, and audience. 

5-6:30pm                     Rooftop Reception in Global Gateway


Thursday July 5

8:30-9am                     Coffee at Global Gateway

9-10:30am                  ROUNDTABLE
“The lifeless thing that lay at my feet”:
THE CORPOREAL IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
Timothy Morton (English, Rice University)
“What Was That Again about Frankenstein and Ecology?”
Lilla Crisafulli (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Bologna)
“From the Physiognomic Body to the Problematic Self in Frankenstein”
Gudrun Grabher (American Studies and Medical Humanities, University of Innsbruck)
“Levinas and the Ethical Challenges of Frankenstein’s Monster”
Nancy Hirschmann (Political Theory, University of Pennsylvania)
“Logos and Soma in Frankenstein”
Chair: Essaka Joshua (English and Disability Studies, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Four 15-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with audience

10:30-11am                 Coffee Break in Global Gateway

11-12:30pm                PANEL
“The detested shore”:
RACE AND THE IRISH FRANKENSTEIN
~~ Keough Global Seminar Session ~~
James Chandler (English, University of Chicago)
“A race of devils”?  What to Make of the Irish Episode
Julie Kipp (English, Holy Cross College)
“Frankenstein, the Shelley Circle, and Radical Politics in Ireland”
Claire Connolly (Modern English, University College Cork)
“Archipelagic Frankenstein? Sea Crossings, Scale, and National Culture”
Chair: Chris Fox (University of Notre Dame, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies)
Format: Three 20-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with audience

12:30-2:30pm              Lunch Break in Rome

2:30-4pm                    ROUNDTABLE
“That I might infuse a spark of being”:
ELECTRICITY, LABOUR, MACHINES, AND AI
Charles Gross (Psychology and Neuroscience, Princeton University)
“Electricity and Biology in Frankenstein”
Sylvana Tomaselli (History and Political Thought, University of Cambridge)
“Labour of Love”
Aku Visala (Theology, University of Helinski)
“Where Does the Buck Stop? On the Responsibility of Artificial Beings and their Creators”
Scott Reents (Data Analytics and E-Discovery, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP)
“Frankenjustice: Artificial Intelligence, Reason-Giving, and the Transparency of Law”
Chair: Agustín Fuentes (Anthropology, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Four 15-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with audience

4-5:30pm                     STUDENT POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION
Chair: Neil Delaney (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Undergraduate and graduate students from Notre Dame will be available to discuss their research posters on Frankenstein and its legacies


Friday July 6

8:30-9am                     Coffee in Global Gateway

9-10:30am                  ROUNDTABLE
“I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open”:
(RE)ANIMATION, GENETICS, AND EVOLUTION
Anne K. Mellor (English, UCLA)
“Mothering Monsters: Frankenstein and Genetic Engineering”
Eileen Hunt Botting (Political Theory, University of Notre Dame)
“Hearing the Creature: Articulating the Child’s Right to be Genetically Modified.”
Eben Kirksey (Anthropology, University of New South Wales, Australia)
“CRISPR Trans-Migrations: Gene Editing and Consumer Choices”
Blaine Maley (Anthropology and Anatomy, Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine)
“Transplants, Xenotransplants, and the Prescience of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Agustín Fuentes (Anthropology, University of Notre Dame)
“We are all composite creatures: evolution, genetics, ancestry, and false narratives of lineage purity in human becoming ”
Chair: Holly Goodson (Molecular and Cell Biology and Biophysics, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Five 12-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with audience

10:30-11am                 Coffee Break in Global Gateway

11-12:30pm                PANEL
“I am a traveller”:
REFUGEES AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Mary Jacobus (English, University of Cambridge)
“Translating Inhospitality: Migration, Monstrosity, and the Other”
Franca Dellarosa (Department of Letters, Language, and Arts, University of Bari Aldo Moro)
“Frankenstein and the ‘perplexities of the rights of man’”
Marina Calloni (Social and Political Philosophy, University of Milano-Bicocca)
“Protecting Unaccompanied Minors.”
Chair: Monika Nalepa (Political Science, University of Chicago)
Format: Three 20-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with audience

12:30-2:30pm              Lunch Break in Rome

2:30-4pm                    ROUNDTABLE
“I had no choice but to adapt my nature”:
PRESUMPTION, ADAPTATION, AND NEW PERSPECTIVES
Greg Kucich (English, University of Notre Dame)
“Peake’s Presumption of 1823”
Jeffrey N. Cox (English, University of Colorado-Boulder)
“Melodramatic Frankenstein:  Radical Content in a Reactionary Form”
Stuart Curran (English, University of Pennsylvania)
“Frankenstein and the Monstrosity of Literary Criticism”
David Punter (English, University of Bristol)
“Frankenstein in Baghdad”
Anton Juan (Film, Television, and Theatre, University of Notre Dame)
“Staging Presumption: Contemporizing the Creature”
Chair: Yasmin Solomonescu (English, University of Notre Dame)
Format: Five 12-minute papers followed by 30 minutes of discussion with audience

4-5:30pm                     Closing Reception in Courtyard of Global Gateway

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

Glut's The Frankenstein Archive

From the master of Frankensteiniana:

The Frankenstein Archive: Essays on the Monster, the Myth, the Movies, and More
Donald F. Glut
http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-1353-9

Price: $35.00
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-1353-9
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8069-2
55 photos, index
233pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2002
Available for immediate shipment


About the Book

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, started a phenomeon that has survived the years and permeated many aspects of popular culture. It has spawned numerous films, television programs, books, comics, stage presentations, and the like, and continues to do so today.

Like the Frankenstein Monster, this work is made up of many individual parts, some of which are quite different in their specific themes, but all of which relate to Frankenstein in some way. They consider the untold true story of Frankenstein, Glenn Strange’s portrayals of the Monster, the portrayals of lesser-known actors who played the character, Peter Cushing and his role as Baron (and Dr.) Frankenstein, the classic film Young Frankenstein co-written by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder (who also starred in it), the battles between do-gooders and the Monster and other horror figures, Frankenstein in cartoons—and much more.

Each of the 15 essays, all written by the author, is prefaced with explanatory notes that place the essay in its historical perspective, comment on its origin and content, and where appropriate, supplement the text with new, additional, or otherwise relevant information. Richly illustrated.



Table of Contents

Preface 1

1 Frankenstein: The (Untold) True Story 5

2 The "Strange" Frankenstein Monster 34

3 A Forgotten Frankenstein? 49

4 Peter Cushing: "Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume" 58

5 Young Frankenstein--Classic in the Making 66

6 Super-Heroes vs. Frankenstein (and Company) 81

7 "What’s Up, Doc Frankenstein (Jekyll and Fu Manchu)?" 96

8 The Beatles Meet Frankenstein 112

9 A Score of Frankenstein Misconceptions 117

10 Frankenstein on the Home-Movie Screen 138

11 "This Is Your Life, Frankenstein’s Monster" 152

12 Frankenstein Sings-and Dances, Too 157

13 Frankenstein in Four Colors 164

14 The Monster of Frankenstein (Almost) Returns 189

15 The New Adventures of Frankenstein 202

Index 217



About the Author

Donald F. Glut is a prolific book and article writer, and movie producer-director. He is the president of Frontline Entertainment and lives in Burbank, California.