The heart of the online Frankenstein Meme Project is the searchable database of literary works (novels, short stories, plays, and graphic novels) influenced by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein over the past two hundred years. Check it out!

The Frankenstein Meme Project began as a digital humanities project led by Dr. David Sandner at California State University, Fullerton, to create an archive, crowd-sourced with students, that created entries and keyword searches of themes and more exploring  Shelley’s famous novel and its wide influence. Work with students proceeded in Dr. Sandner’s classes from 2016 through October 2018.

In celebration of the 200-year Anniversary of Shelley’s novel, the Project curated an Exhibit: an Art Show and Special Collections Display, held in the Atrium Gallery of the Pollak Library on the California State University, Fullerton, October-December, 2018. A Program Series of talks and events based in the library kicked off the Exhibit.

Archive materials here include web materials documenting the Exhibit and Program, and discussions of a number of areas of special interest to our campus community and its holdings that explore aspects of the archiv e we have created. These areas of interest include:

The Literary Influence of Frankenstein, by the Numbers–ONGOING

The Frankenstein Meme Exhibit and Program Series Archive

The Life and Times of William Ashbless, CSUF’s own Romantic poet.

The Terrible Schemes of Dr. Ignacio Norbondo, CSUF’s own Mad Scientist.

Women Writing Pulps

Philip K. Dick: Running at the Edge of Human

Literary Images of Frankenstein’s Creature