The STEM Read Podcast - The Women of Frankenstein

Episode 16:  The Women of Frankenstein with Kiersten White and Christine Brovelli-O’Brien  

In this episode of the STEM Read Podcast hosts Gillian King-Cargile (@gkingcargile) and Kristin Brynteson (@kbrynteson) sit down with literature expert Christine Brovelli-O’Brien PhD., and New York Times best-selling author Kiersten White (@kierstenwhite) to explore the legacy of Frankenstein. With 2018 marking 200 years since Frankenstein’s initial release we look back on the real-life science that inspired Frankenstein, the historical impact Frankenstein had, as well as the scientific breakthroughs it helped bring about.

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Notes & External Links  

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 

• The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White  

• Check out our Frankenstein Staff picks on the STEM Read Blog 

• MIT Annotated Frankenstein for Scientists, Engineers and Creators of All Kinds  

• Learn more about Mary Shelley   

• Who was Mary Wollstonecraft? 

• The Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 

• Who was William Godwin?  

• What was Luigi Galvani’s Frog Experiment?  

• What was Romanticism?  

• Who was Percy Bysshe Shelley?  

• Who was Lord Byron? 

• What was the Summer of Discontent?  

• Who was William Wordsworth?  

• What did Frankenstein’s monster really look like? 

• The Vampyre by John William Polidori  

• Check out other popular books originally published anonymously  

• Who were the Resurrectionists?  

• What happens when you donate your body to science?  

• Who invented the pacemaker?  

• The Terminator directed by James Cameron  

• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton  

• Check out our The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein: The STEM Read Experience Overview  

• Attend creative writing camp this summer at Quarantine: The Summer Camp  

• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery  

• Twilight by Stephanie Meyer 

• Who was David Eddings?  

• Who is Terry Brooks? 

• Paranormalcy by Kiersten White 

• Check out our Frankenstein Lesson Plans 

• Frankenstein Moved in on the Fourth Floor by Elizabeth Levy and Mordicai Gerstein   

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  

• What is an unreliable narrator?  

• Check out The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein discussion guide  

• Kristin’s Failure Bites Podcast. 

• Learn more about STEM Read’s Science Fiction Writing Conference!