The Frankenstein Meme celebrates the 200-year anniversary of Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein. Our digital experiment creates a public, crowd-sourced, searchable database of literary works (novels, short stories, plays, and graphic novels) influenced by Mary Shelley’s novel over the last two hundred years. Since 2016, successive classes of mine on Romanticism, Science Fiction, Horror, and Popular Culture read and researched works for the search engine, providing information and context in write ups linked to the database itself.

The site also houses interviews with writers on how their works relate to Shelley’s, essays by students on Frankenstein’s influence, student creative work, background information on key aspects of the database, especially its relation to our University, and more.

The database took part in a constellation of events celebrating Frankenstein during a “Frankenweek,” October 27-31, 2018, on the CSUF campus, including an Art Show and Special Collections Display in the Atrium Gallery of our Pollak Library and participation in the international Frankenreads event taking place on many campuses around the world.

Material here is released under an Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creative Commons License.

Dr. David Sandner, Professor, English California State University, Fullerton

Email: dsandner@fullerton.edu