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The crowd-sourced portion of the Frankenstein Meme Project is complete. I await the possibility of a few more entries, but mainly, I will turn to making sense of the data collected. First up: a presentation, Frankenstein by the Numbers, at the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts, in March, 2019….

We have finished work and left beta on the project. Welcome to Frankenstein Meme 1.0! We will immediately begin working on improving the experience and chasing down a few extra things that have come up since we set out on this project. But we have achieved, for Frankenweek, what we set out to do! Now […]

Here is the Orange County Register story on our Exhibit, opening Oct 27, running through December…. CSUF’s ‘Frankenstein Meme’ celebrates 200th anniversary of the classic novel        

Most of the final entries for the Frankenstein Meme database have come in from the writers and are now out to editors. I have received back some and posted the first group of 14. The end is near!

Pages have gone up at Pollak Library for our upcoming Exhibit opening Oct 27th in the Atrium Gallery of the Library and for the Series of talks, movie showing, creative writing workshop, Frankenreads, and more going on Oct 27th-31st. Our front page is adjusted to provide easy links to these materials!

We have pages going up today that look over attempts to image the Creature over the last 200 years, Frankenstein and the pulp magazine, especially women writers inspired by Mary Shelley, and a short entry on Philip K. Dick and his androids that points back to our more extensive earlier project on his work, with […]

A long section under The Frankenstein Meme Project on images and the Literary influence of Frankenstein is up, asking what teh Creature looks like and how it has been portrayed…but without the images yet! All of them are chosen and need to simply be uploaded and placed in the proper place. More soon. Students working […]

Along with other editing work and organizing, I have been working on the until now empty pages of research information. I combined work by graduate students Alexis Shanley and Joshua Newman and put up the page on Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, the villain from many of James Blaylock steampunk “Langdon St. Ives” adventures, starting, really, with […]

I am currently reviewing the main pages of the site…looking over and repairing issues as I also prepare signage for the Frankenstein Meme Art Show and Special Collections Display. I want borrow out what might be relevant for the signage and sharpen my requests for student work this term on final editing and researching for […]