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.

Advance Notice: Global Frankenstein

Forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan. It sounds promising, but I wish they would also offer affordable paperback editions. I will update the blog once a contents list and cover art are posted:


Global Frankenstein 
Editors: Davison, Carol Margaret, Mulvey-Roberts, Marie (Eds.)
https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319781419

Hardcover ca. $109.00
price for USA

Due: November 11, 2018
ISBN 978-3-319-78141-9


Bibliographic Information

Series Title: Studies in Global Science Fiction
Copyright2018
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-3-319-78142-6; Hardcover ISBN978-3-319-78141-9
Number of Illustrations and Tables 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature


Explores the versatility and interdisciplinary applications of Frankenstein in areas such as science, alchemy, hypertext, dance, art, post-humanism, computer games, and Victorian steampunk
Provides a global perspective with international authors and multi-national examples
Engages with the afterlife of Frankenstein and gives fresh prominence in the bicentennial year of its publication

Comprised of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein, at its bicentenary, in such fields and disciplines as digital technology, film, theatre, dance, medicine, book illustration, science fiction, comic books, science, and performance art. This ground-breaking, celebratory volume, edited by two established Gothic Studies scholars, reassesses Frankenstein’s global impact for the twenty-first century across a myriad of cultures and nations, from Japan, Mexico, and Turkey, to Britain, Iraq, Europe, and North America. Offering compelling critical dissections of reincarnations of Frankenstein, a generically hybrid novel described by its early reviewers as a “bold,” “bizarre,” and “impious” production by a writer “with no common powers of mind”, this collection interrogates its sustained relevance over two centuries during which it has engaged with such issues as mortality, global capitalism, gender, race, embodiment, neoliberalism, disability, technology, and the role of science.


About the Editors:

Carol Margaret Davison is Professor at the University of Windsor, Canada and the author of History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature, 1764-1824 (2009) and Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). She recently edited The Gothic and Death (2017) and The Edinburgh Companion to the Scottish Gothic (2017) with Monica Germanà.

Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and author of Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (2016), winner of the Alan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She has authored, edited, and co-edited over 30 books. Recently she made a film on Frankenstein for a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the literary South West.

CFP Frankenstein 1818 to 2018: 200 Years of Mad Scientists and Monsters (06/01/2018; NEPCA Worcester, MA 10/19-20/2018)

Frankenstein 1818 to 2018: 200 Years of Mad Scientists and Monsters (Final Call for Papers)

A Special Session of the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts

19-20 October 2018

Proposals due 1 June 2018


In this panel, the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association seeks to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 1818 by celebrating the longevity of her iconic characters of scientist Victor Frankenstein, “the pale student of unhallowed arts,” and his monstrous construct, “the thing he had put together,” as she succinctly describes them in her introduction to the 1831 reissue of the work.

Proposals for papers should explore aspects of Shelley’s versions of Frankenstein or his creations (both the Creature as well as its Bride) as representations of the fantastic and/or of the afterlife of these figures in later fantastic narratives of any genre or medium in which adaptations and appropriations of the Frankenstein story have occurred.

Be advised that presentations will be limited to 15 or 20 minutes in length depending on final panel size.

Ideas and resources for the study of Frankenstein and its progeny can be accessed at Frankenstein and the Fantastic, an outreach effort of the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area, based at https://FrankensteinandtheFantastic.blogspot.com/.


Please contact area chair Michael A. Torregrossa at FrankensteinandtheFantastic@gmail.com, using “Frankenstein 1818 to 2018” as your subject line, with any questions in advance of the 1 June 2018 deadline.

Submissions should be made online through the “2018 Proposal Form” at https://nepca.blog/2018-conference/. Please select “The Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction)” as your designated area. A complete submission includes contact information, academic affiliation (if any), an academic biographical statement (between 50 and 200 words), a paper title (no more than 60 characters), and a paper abstract (no more than 250 words). Do also send copies of your biography and proposal to the area chair at FrankensteinandtheFantastic@gmail.com, using “Frankenstein 1818 to 2018” as your subject line.


The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) was founded in 1974 as a professional organization for scholars living in New England and New York. It is a community of scholars interested in advancing research and promoting interest in the disciplines of popular and/or American culture. NEPCA’s membership consists of university and college faculty members, emeriti faculty, secondary school teachers, museum specialists, graduate students, independent scholars, and interested members of the general public. NEPCA is an independently funded affiliate of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Membership is open to all interested parties, regardless of profession, rank, or residency. NEPCA holds an annual conference that invites scholars from around the globe to participate. In an effort to keep costs low, it meets on college campuses throughout the region.

Membership in NEPCA is required for participation and annual dues are included in conference registration fees. Further details are available at https://nepca.blog/membership-information/.

Frankenstein@200: 2018 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference (Stanford, CA 4/20-22/2018)

Another Frankenstein conference I never heard about:

Details:  http://med.stanford.edu/medicineandthemuse/events/HHC2018_FrankensteinAt200.html

Frankenstein@200

The 2018 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference will be held at Stanford University from April 20-22, 2018.

A celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through an exploration of medically-based ethical dilemmas and an examination of the relevance of Frankenstein in moral imagination today.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Alexander Nemerov
Professor, Art and Art History at Stanford University

Lester Friedman
Professor, Media and Society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Alvan Ikoku
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and Medicine at Stanford University

Catherine Belling
Associate Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University

Important Dates

June 1, 2017: Call for proposals opens

Summer 2017: Conference registration opens

November 1, 2017: Deadline for proposals

December 1, 2017: Decisions communicated

April 20-22, 2018: Conference dates

 

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

Why Frankenstein Matters at 200: Rethinking the Human through the Arts and Sciences Conference (Rome 7/4-6/2018)

Another conference outside the US:

Why Frankenstein Matters at 200: Rethinking the Human through the Arts and Sciences, July 4-6, 2018
http://sites.nd.edu/operation-frankenstein/

This bicentennial conference on the persisting cultural and scientific impact of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein will take place July 4-6, 2018 at the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway facility, adjacent to the Coliseum. The conference will bring together a group of distinguished scholars (30-35) from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds across the sciences, humanities, and arts to interact on the continuing urgency of Frankenstein—the most widely taught novel worldwide at the university level—for a broad spectrum of pressing concerns in such fields as bioethics, genetics, artificial intelligence, evolutionary theory, environmental studies, race relations and colonialism, literary and theater studies, human rights, refugee studies, gender studies, disability studies, philosophy, and religious studies.

The organizing theme of this event considers how Shelley’s gripping  novel, and its many theatrical and screen adaptations over the years, have shaped or may shape our evolving comprehension of the human experience, especially in relation to art, culture, science, technology, ethics, and politics most broadly conceived.

The finalized conference line-up of speakers features, among other leading writers, Joyce Carol Oates and includes the following speakers:  Stuart Curran, Anne Mellor, Jeffrey Cox, Timothy Morton, David Punter, Mary Jacobus, James Chandler, Susan Wolfson, Serena Baiese, and Claire Connolly (literary studies and Romanticism); Steven B. Smith, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Marina Calloni, and David Archard (philosophy an
d political theory); Monika Nalepa (political science); Franca Dellarosa (comparative literature); Elizabeth Young, Ron Leavao, and Devi Snively (film studies); Eben Kirksey, Jon Marks, and Tracey Betsinger (anthropology); Charles Gross (neuroscience); Sylvana Tomaselli (history); Lilla Maria Crisafulli (gender studies) and Holly Goodson (molecular and cell biology).
Conference activities will also include a new feminist film adaptation of Frankenstein.
The University of Notre Dame conference organizational team represents the interdisciplinary dynamic of this event:  Eileen Hunt Botting (Political Science); Agustin Fuentes (Anthropology); Anton Juan (Film, Television, and Theater); Greg Kucich (English), and Devi Snively (Independent Filmmaker/Anthropology).

CFP The Fates of Frankenstein Conference (4/30/2018; Edinburgh 11/23-24/2018)

Travel grant, please: 

The Fates of Frankenstein

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/01/24/the-fates-of-frankenstein

deadline for submissions: 

April 30, 2018

full name / name of organization: 

Edinburgh Napier University

contact email: 

frankensteinat200@gmail.com

Call for papers
Conference: The Fates of Frankenstein
23-24 November 2018, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

2018 sees a flourishing crop of events commemorating, one way or another, the bicentenary of Frankenstein’s publication. The Fates of Frankenstein is a two-day conference about adaptations and appropriations of Shelley’s novel.

The fate of Frankenstein and his monstrous creation has been to outlive their original context. Indeed, Frankenstein almost immediately escaped its book covers into Richard Brinsley Peake’s 1823 stage adaptation, Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein. Two hundred years later, Shelley’s compelling tale has given rise to what Audrey Fisch describes as a ‘panoply of manifestations and permutations’ in popular culture.

This conference explores Frankenstein’s myriad cultural fates, in which it not only inspires new narratives and creative works but is also widely invoked by the media and in a range of social and scientific contexts. Over two anything-but-dreary days in November, the conference will take stock of the ways in which Frankenstein remains very much alive in 2018, and of trends and innovations in its adaptations, retellings, and reuses in the last two centuries.

Confirmed speakers: Nick Dear, playwright; Professor Catherine Spooner, Lancaster University; Dr Daniel Cook, University of Dundee.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Frankenstein on television, in films, on stage
• Frankenstein for young readers and viewers, in children’s literature, in YA
• Frankenstein art, craft, fashion
• Fandom, fan studies, fan fiction
• Genre treatments: Gothic, horror, weird, SF, comedy, romance
• Interdisciplinary Frankensteins: medical humanities, environmental humanities, digital humanities
• Frankenstein and the social sciences
• Frankenstein and the life sciences
• Frankenstein in technology, robotics, AI
• Frankenstein metaphors
• Frankenstein in the news, in politics, in social media
• Frankenstein in science communication
• Graphic novels
• Cartoons, animations
• Creative writing
• Music, soundtracks, performance

We welcome proposals for traditional 20-minute papers, and also encourage pre-formed panels, round tables, performances, workshops (or other appropriate format).

Please send proposals of around 250 words plus a short biography to the conference organisers Sarah Artt and Emily Alder at frankensteinat200@gmail.com by 30 April 2018.

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CFP Dangerous Knowledge: 2018 PEAKS Interdisciplinary Conference (expired; Arizona 2/9/2018)

Sorry to have missed posting this:


Dangerous Knowledge: 2018 PEAKS Interdisciplinary Conference at Northern Arizona University
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/01/15/deadline-extended-dangerous-knowledge

deadline for submissions: 

January 22, 2018

 

full name / name of organization: 

Northern Arizona University's Graduate English Organization

 

contact email: 

peaksconference@gmail.com

 

Keynote Speaker: Salvador Plascencia, author of The People of Paper

Conference Date: Friday, February 9, 2018

Contact Email: peaksconference@gmail.com

As an interdisciplinary conference, PEAKS encourages and accepts research from a wide range of scholarly and creative disciplines such as literature, linguistics, rhetoric, education, creative writing, history, art history, musicology, women and gender studies, film studies, science, philosophy, psychology, communications, and much more!  


Dangerous Knowledge: 2018 PEAKS Interdisciplinary Conference at Northern Arizona University 
EXTENDED Deadline for Submissions: January 22, 2018
Full Name/ Name of Organization: NAU's Graduate English Organization
Contact Email: peaksconference@gmail.com
Keynote Speaker: Salvador Plascencia, Harvey Mudd College, author of The People of Paper
Conference Date and Time

• Friday, February 9, 2018
• Panels and Presentations: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Keynote Address: 6:30 p.m.

Is knowledge dangerous? Under what circumstances does knowledge aid or hinder the individual? The community? What is the relationship between knowledge and progress; stagnation; desire? What does knowledge perpetuate? To honor the elements of language, communication, “otherness,” science and science-fiction, nature, psychology, history, and much more, and to discuss the implications of knowledge, the 2018 PEAKS Interdisciplinary Conference would like to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In that spirit, PEAKS encourages submissions on the novel, the novel’s histories and themes, adaptations (film, print, other media), and Frankenstein and his creature as cultural icons. Topics not related to this year’s theme are also welcome!

As an interdisciplinary conference, PEAKS encourages 15-20 minute papers from a wide range of scholarly and creative disciplines such as literature, linguistics, rhetoric, education, creative writing, history, art history, musicology, women and gender studies, film studies, psychology, and communications. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Postcoloniality and “Otherness”
• Science, Pseudoscience, and Science Fiction
• Nature and Natural Sciences
• Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, and Gender Studies
• Quest for Knowledge; or, Dangerous Knowledge
• Existence and Consciousness
• Revenge and Revenge Narratives
• “Birth” Myths and Family Studies
• Construction and Creation Studies 
• History and Historical Narratives
• Philosophy, Morality, and Ethics
• Image, Ego, and Formation of Identity
• Language and Communication
• Imaginary Geographics

Types of Presentations: 

• Individual Paper (8-10 pages, 15-20 minutes with Q & A) 
• Research Project (15-20 minutes with Q & A) 
• Creative Writing (15-20 minutes with Q & A) 
• Panels (3-4 Presenters) (60-90 minutes)  

Please submit proposals of no more than 250 words along with a brief, 50 words or less, description of the paper to be used on the conference website. Use the “Submit” link on peaksconference.weebly.com by the extended deadline: January 22, 2018.

Direct Link for Submission: https://peaksconference.weebly.com/submit.html
Contact Email: peaksconference@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/GraduateEnglishOrganization

Last updated January 16, 2018
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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

PCA Update 9/30

There is one day until the submission deadline for our sponsored session for PCA 2018 on children's and young adult versions of Frankenstein. I am disappointed to report that so far we have received ZERO proposals.

I am assuming the session will not be running.

My thanks to those that have helped spread the word about the call. Your efforts are much appreciated.

We will focus our attention now on promoting NEPCA 2018. Details can be found in the call for papers section of this site.

Michael Torregrossa
Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area Chair

Han Cholo's Frankenstein

A quick update, all of the items from ThinkGeek licensed by Universal Studios are part of a larger product line from designer Han Cholo.

You can view all of the items and more at https://www.hancholo.com/collections/monster-lovers.

A Shocking New Discovery?

A final post on ThinkGeek. The retailer has yet another item licensed from Universal Studios. This one is a pin designed to resemble some of the apparatus in the lab of Henry Frankenstein. (That's not a typo; remember Universal reverses the first names of Victor and Henry Clerval.) 

Ordering instructions and full details at: https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/jpkn/.

Frankenstein the Tee-Shirt!

ThinkGeek also offers a cool-looking Frankenstein-inspired tee-shirt. The design features Mary Shelley writing and the Creature (though not a very Shelleyian one) manifesting from her imagination behind her.

A nice design here, BUT it is a woman's only shirt. If that applies to you, ordering instructions can be found at https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/jkhh/.

More from ThinkGeek

In my continued browsing of the ThinkGeek site, I also came across a set of ID bracelets (another licensed product from Universal Studios) with the following description:

You're my favorite monster 

It's important to remember that Mary Shelley never gave her monster a name. It is we who named him Frankenstein after his creator. Frankenstein may be about many things, but one of the topics the story broaches is loneliness - that feeling the monster has that he is the only one of his kind in the world. He needs his own monster to feel kinship in this world.

We know that feeling of not fitting in, and maybe you do, too. Perhaps you also have a special monster in your life, or you are that special monster for someone else. This set of bracelets, reading "His Monster" and "Her Monster," lets you declare both your relationship and your otherworldliness all in one.

More details and ordering instructions at: https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/jpkl/.

Puttin' on the Glitz?

Online retailer ThinkGeek is selling a set of Frankenstein-themed cufflinks this season. The items are officially licensed products from Universal Studios.

The set includes one Frankenstein's Monster and one Bride of Frankenstein.

Ordering instructions at https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/jpkm/.

CFP Frankenstein 1818 to 2018: 200 Years of Mad Scientists and Monsters: A First Call for Papers (6/1/2018; NEPCA 2018)

Frankenstein 1818 to 2018:

200 Years of Mad Scientists and Monsters

A First Call for Papers



The Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association seeks proposals for papers and/or complete sessions to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 1818 and to celebrate the longevity of her iconic characters of scientist Victor Frankenstein, “the pale student of unhallowed arts,” and his monstrous construct, “the thing he had put together,” as she succinctly describes them in her introduction to the 1831 reissue of the work.

Proposals should explore aspects of the novel as representations of the fantastic and/or the afterlife of the text in later fantastic narratives of any genre or medium in which adaptations have occurred.



Presentations will be part of the conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association to be held in the fall of 2018.



Please contact area chair Michael A. Torregrossa at FrankensteinandtheFantastic@gmail.com with your proposals in advance of the 1 June 2018 deadline.

Further details and submission instructions will be available at Frankenstein and the Fantastic, an outreach effort of the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association, based at https://frankensteinandthefantastic.blogspot.com/.

CFP Revisiting 1818 in 2018 (9/30/2017; NeMLA 2018)

Of potential interest:

Revisiting 1818 in 2018
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/09/04/revisiting-1818-in-2018

deadline for submissions: September 30, 2017

full name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Languages Association

contact email: richard.johnston@usafa.edu



Call for Papers

Panel: "Revisiting 1818 in 2018"

Northeast Modern Languages Association

12-15 April 2018

Pittsburgh, PA

Richard Johnston, United States Air Force Academy



Panel Description: 1818 is a seminal year in British literary and cultural history. Mary Shelley published Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, and Thomas Love Peacock published another important Gothic novel, Nightmare Abbey. Other notable literary works to appear in 1818 include William Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Poets, John Keats’ Endymion, Sir Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian, and Percy Shelley’s enduring sonnet “Ozymandias” (as well as Horace Smith’s less-enduring sonnet “Ozymandias,” later retitled “On a Stupendous Leg of Granite.")  In January of that year, Lord Byron sent John Murray the final part of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage; by September, he had written the first canto of Don Juan. Also in January, Samuel Taylor Coleridge delivered a lecture on Hamlet, the first in a series of major lectures on literature and philosophy. In April, Coleridge met Keats; seven months later, Keats met Fanny Brawne. Elsewhere in the arts, the Scottish painter David Wilkie finished The Penny Wedding, and the Besses o’ th’ Barn Band was established near Manchester. Building on the 1816 and 1817 panels at the last two meetings of the Northeast Modern Languages Association, this panel welcomes papers on the literature, culture, and/or enduring legacy of 1818.



Submission Guidelines: Please submit 300-word proposals by 30 September 2017. Proposals must be submitted electronically through the NeMLA website:



http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/callforpapers/submit.html

The title of this panel is “Revisiting 1818 in 2018,” and the number is 16938.


Questions? Contact Richard Johnston at Richard.Johnston@usafa.edu.


Last updated September 6, 2017

CFP Bicentenary Conference on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (11/1/2017; Venice 2/21-22/2017)

Sorry to have missed this; the search engine for the U Penn CFP is a bit buggy:


The Bicentenary Conference on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/08/18/the-bicentenary-conference-on-mary-shelleys-frankenstein

deadline for submissions: November 1, 2017

full name / name of organization: University of Venice, Italy

contact email: maria.parrino@unive.it



Call for papers

International Conference, Venice, 21-22 February 2018

University of Venice – Cà Foscari



The Bicentenary Conference on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Ever since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was first published (1818), the story of the scientist and the Creature has been constantly and widely told, discussed, adapted, filmed, and translated, making generations of readers approach the novel in an extraordinary variety of ways and languages. The myth of the ‘modern Prometheus’ which Mary Shelley invented has been passed down throughout the centuries and morphed into countless shapes and figures contributing to the enhancement of the original text.

If first-time readers are surprised to discover that Frankenstein is not the name of the monster, and that in fact the monster has no name, all readers are given the opportunity to discover that the novel is a sort of encyclopedia, a text which explores different disciplines, from science to sociology, from psychology to medicine, from history to geography. Moreover, the numerous critical approaches to the text, varying from psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, deconstructionist, to ecocritic, all point out the multi-faceted features of the novel.

Although it is difficult to add new and original interpretations of Frankenstein, the pressure and the pleasure to celebrate the novel remains strong and authentic. In this spirit, the conference welcomes participants to share old and new interpretations, and contributes to the promotion of the worldwide events which will be held in 2018, all paying tribute to what is unarguably one of the most famous novels in world literature. When Mary Shelley, in her long Introduction to the1831 edition, wrote about the ‘invention’ of Frankenstein, she did not know that two hundred years later others would enjoy ‘moulding and fashioning’ her original idea, fulfilling the writer’s wish for her ‘hideous progeny [to] go forth and prosper’.

This conference aims to explore, analyse, and debate Mary Shelley’s novel and bicentenary, its reception in European culture and its influence on the media.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Frankenstein: the 1818 and 1831 version
• Mary Shelley’s biography
• Frankenstein and translations
• Frankenstein and multilingualism
• Multicultural Frankenstein
• Frankenstein and the visual arts
• Frankenstein and films
• Frankenstein and adaptations
• The reception of Frankenstein
• Teaching Frankenstein
• Publishing Frankenstein

Papers may be given in English, Italian, French and Spanish. Please send 200 words abstract for a 20-minute paper to Michela Vanon Alliata, Alessandro Scarsella and Maria Parrino at frankensteinvenice@libero.it by 1 November 2017.



Scientific committee

Michela Vanon Alliata, Università di Venezia

Alessandro Scarsella, Università di Venezia

Maria Parrino, Università di Venezia


Last updated August 21, 2017

CFP 200 Years of the Fantastic: Celebrating Frankenstein and Mary Shelley (10/31/2017; ICFA 3/14-18/2018)

Finally available:

CfP: “200 Years of the Fantastic: Celebrating Frankenstein and Mary Shelley,” ICFA 39, March 14-18, 2018
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2017/cfp-200-years-of-the-fantastic-celebrating-frankenstein-and-mary-shelley-icfa-39-march-14-18-2018/
Posted on August 25, 2017 by Skye Cervone

Please join us for ICFA 39, March 14-18, 2018, when our theme will be “200 Years of the Fantastic: Celebrating Frankenstein and Mary Shelley.”

We welcome papers on the work of: Guest of Honor John Kessel (Nebula, Locus and Tiptree Award winner), Guest of Honor Nike Sulway (Tiptree and Queensland award winner; nominee for Aurealis and Crawford awards), and Guest Scholar Fred Botting (Professor, Kingston University London; author of Making Monstrous: “Frankenstein”, Criticism, Theory; Gothic; and Limits of Horror).

Mary Shelley and her Creature have had a pervasive influence on the fantastic. Brian Aldiss famously proclaimed Frankenstein as the first science fiction novel, fusing the investigation of science with the Gothic mode. Its myriad adaptation on stage, in film and beyond have continually reinvented Shelley’s tale for contemporary audiences, from James Whale’s iconic 1931 film through Showtime’s Penny Dreadful (2014-16). Frankenstein exists in many avatars and many languages. Its central invention of the scientifically created being has become a staple of the fantastic imaginary from Asimov’s robots through Ava in Ex Machina (Alex Garland 2014) or Samantha in Her (Spike Jonze 2013). Shelley Jackson’s early hypertext Patchwork Girl (1995) and Danny Boyle’s innovatively staged version of Nick Dear’s play both shows us how Frankenstein continues to push us toward innovations in form, while the novel’s interest in themes of scientific responsibility, social isolation, and gender inequality remain sharply relevant. We invite papers that explore the many legacies of Frankenstein on fantastic genres, characters, images and modes, especially those that explore the ongoing importance of women’s contributions to them, beginning with Mary Shelley. We also welcome proposals for individual papers, academic sessions, creative presentations, and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media.

The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2017. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, graduate students, and artists.

To submit a proposal, go to http://www.fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/.

To contact the Division Heads for help with submissions, go to http://www.fantastic-arts.org/annual-conference/division-heads.

To download a copy of the CfP, please click here.