Monday Missive – October 3, 2016

October 03, 2016 by Mark West
Categories: Monday Missive
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Check Out Frankenstein at the Public Library — The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library is celebrating Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein during the month of October.  This celebration is tied to the library’s Community Read Program, and it includes a wide variety of events and activities, including a presentation by our own Matthew Rowney.  Matt will give a talk titled “Frankenstein: The Making of a Novel in the Year Without a Summer” this comingSaturday, October 8th, at 2 pm at the Main Library.  He will give the talk again onSaturday, October 29, at 2 pm at the Myers Park Branch of the library.

As part of the Community Read Program, Sam Shapiro (a part-time faculty member in our department) has organized a Frankenstein Film Series.  One of the films that he will be showing is Mel Brooks’ comedy Young Frankenstein.  This film will be shown onSunday, October 16, at 2 pm at the Main Library.  For more information about this film series, please click on the following link:  https://www.cmlibrary.org/blog/frankenstein-film-series-october

Kudos — As you know, I like to use my Monday Missives to share news about recent accomplishments by members of our department.  Here is the latest news:

Boyd Davis‘s “virtual poster” titled “More Than a Story: Narrative Formats in Alzheimer’s Conversation” is on display at the Aging in Society 2016 Conference in Linkoping, Sweden.

Alan Rauch recently presented a paper titled “The Private Subscription Library as Intellectual Collective: Sharing Ideas of Science in the Early 19th Century” at the 7th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science in Prague.

Quirky Quiz Question — Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, was an important British writer, but so was her famous mother.  Does anybody know the name of Mary Shelley’s mother?

Last week’s answer: Kevin Siers
Doug Marlette is one of several award-winning editorial cartoonists who have worked for the Charlotte Observer.  Does anybody know the name of the current editorial cartoonist who works for the Charlotte Observer?