CFP: Frankenreads at Macquarie

2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. To celebrate the anniversary of this hugely influential text, which has left an indelible mark on literary and popular culture, Macquarie University is calling for papers for a symposium to be held on campus on Wednesday 19 September 2018.

“Frankenreads at Macquarie” will be part of the international celebration of the bicentenary of Frankenstein, and part of the broader program of Frankenreads, an initiative of the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Anniversary events will be held across the world throughout 2018, culminating in a series of readings of the novel on October 31, 2018. Talks presented at “Frankenreads at Macquarie” will be recorded and distributed via the English Department’s podcast, From the Lighthouse, throughout October.

PLEASE NOTE: unless speakers request otherwise, we will be recording and publishing all presentations at the symposium through From the Lighthouse.
We welcome papers on a broad range of topics related to Frankenstein, including but not limited to:

• Considerations of the political, social and cultural context in which the novel was written
• Explorations of the novel’s relationship to Romanticism and the works of other Romantic writers
• Close readings of the novel
• Examinations of the cultural afterlife of the novel
• Adaptations of the novel, particularly cinematic adaptations
• Exploration of the novel’s relation to science and new technologies

We would particularly like to encourage papers by postgraduate and other early career researchers.

Please send proposals for papers to Stephanie Russo at stephanie.russo@mq.edu.au. Proposals should include the title of the paper, as well as a 100-word abstract, and be submitted by 28 February 2018.

​You will be notified of your participation in the symposium by 31 March 2018.