[ecrea] CFP: Fates of Frankenstein

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 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(frankensteinat200 /at/ gmail.com)>by 30 
April 2018.


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