Professor Richard Marggraf Turley talks about our obsession with self-tracking and how it inspired him to develop 'The Vortex' - a machine that analyses our reactions to sublime and Gothic works. ‘I’ve got chills, they’re multiplying,’ sang John Travolta, dancing off...

In this post, Dr Emily Alder from Edinburgh Napier University talks about the differing forms of science, technology and knowledge in Frankenstein.  Victor Frankenstein brings his creature to life with ‘a spark of being’. At the time Mary Shelley was writing,...

Dr Daniel Cook from the University of Dundee talks about the birth of the Gothic novel and its influences on Shelley's conception and creation of the Creature in 'Frankenstein'.  Fittingly, for a dark and foreboding genre, the origin of the Gothic in English was...

In Shelley's 'Frankenstein', why are the men so self-centred and the women so meek? In this blog, Professor Richard Marggraf Turley from Aberystwyth University explores gender and toxic masculinity in the novel.   Just as Victor’s creature is constructed using parts...