Since its last hurrah in 2018, the Frankenstein Meme Project—lead by Dr. David Sandner—has continued to bring wonder and curiosity to many. One such curiosity lead to many questions and an interview with Patrisia Prestinary, the Special Collections Librarian at California State University, Fullerton who helped bring the exhibition and program series to life. The […]
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Into the new year…
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….
Frankenstein Meme Complete
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 […]
Opening Talk Coming, Saturday at 3
Here we come
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
The Final Stage of the Database is in motion
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!
Links to Exhibit and Program Series pages at Pollak Library
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!
Pages up on Images of the Creature, Pulps/Women Writing Pulps, and Philip K. Dick and Frankenstein
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 […]
New material up
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 […]
CSUF’s Mad Scientist
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 […]