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We continue the Frankenreads Q&A series today by presenting an interview with Professor Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey, organizer of Frankenreads at The University of Tokyo.  The University of Tokyo’s Frankenreads schedule includes a public lecture on the ‘Power of Language and Power of Science: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Frankenstein‘ to be held on November 16.  Sophia University Tokyo is also . . .

We continue the Frankenreads Q & A series today with a conversation with Assistant Professor Laura R. Kremmel at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, who has organized a series of unique Frankenstein celebrations this month, for both the campus and the local community in Rapid City, SD! Follow her students as they tweet about the events throughout October,  @TheMinesFranken.  What made you want to par . . .

A reminder that the deadline for these awards is approaching.  The Keats-Shelley Association of America will once again award two Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Research Grants, each worth $3,000, to advanced graduate students, untenured faculty, or independent scholars.  The purpose of the Grants is to defray travel expenses incurred in pursuing archival and/or special-collections research related to British Romanticism an . . .

The following blog post is by Louisa Albani: artist, educator, and independent publisher. Her new exhibition and pamphlet celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Maurice or the Fisher’s Cot. Do you know the tale behind this fascinating manuscript? Read more below… and if you’re in London this October, you can visit the exhibition at Keats House. Mary Shelley’s Lost . . .

We continue the Frankenreads Q & A series today by presenting an interview with Omar F. Miranda, Assistant Professor of English, one of the organizers of Frankenreads at the University of San Francisco. Events at USF will kick off on October 18th, with an exhibit in the Donahue Rare Book Library, and continue with interdisciplinary panel discussions October 18th & 25th, and conclude on Halloween with a live r . . .

Bruce Graver (Providence College) reflects on his Wordsworth Summer Conference presentation with Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum (University of Wales Trinity St David) on Peggy Webling’s stage adaptation of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein.  Webling, the great-grand aunt of Greenbaum, was the first woman to adapt Frankenstein for the stage.  In this conference Q&A with Communications Fellow Amanda . . .

We continue the Frankenreads Q&A series today by presenting an interview with Communications Associate Terri Sutton on behalf of Professor Andrew Elfenbein, organizer of Frankenreads at the University of Minnesota.  The University of Minnesota’s series of Frankenreads events kicks off today, 25 September, with a discussion of early film adaptations of Victor Frankenstein’s creature. What made you want . . .

We continue the Frankenreads Q&A series today by presenting interviews with Professor Deidre Lynch and Leslie A. Morris, organizers of Frankenreads at Harvard University. The first interview is with Deidre Lynch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. What made you want to participate in Frankenreads, and what do you think is the relevance of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel today? It’s g . . .

We continue to spotlight Frankenreads events today by presenting information provided by Professor Richard C. Sha, organizer of Frankenreads at American University.  Professor Sha comments: ‘We are participating in Frankenreads to help keep the legacy of the Romantics alive for future generations’. The following excerpts are taken with permission from Professor Sha’s blog post, ‘Why Frankenste . . .

On July 7 2018, Dr Elizabeth Denlinger (New York Public Library) gave a talk at Keats House, Hampstead, on Frankenstein’s monster’s ‘looks’, from 1818 to 2018.  In her lecture entitled ‘Too Horrible for Human Eyes: Picturing Frankenstein’s Creature’, Denlinger traced the history of the creature’s appearance, from Mary Shelley’s ‘demoniacal corpse’ to Boris Karloff’s leaden-eyed portrayal, to the theatrica . . .