Engagements with Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece: A Sample of Student Work and Images from the Festival

Are you curious about Mary Shelley’s text and its renewed relevance to multiple disciplines in the 21st century? Through this art exhibit, you may encounter Frankenstein for the first time; or you may engage with the Fenway Frankenstein Festival for the first time.  Come see how a few Wentworth students have reimagined the story for today in the artistic responses that the book and the festival inspired. Our celebration of the novel’s bicentennial included all the other schools from the Colleges of the Fenway and was supported by faculty in multiple departments here at WIT.  The exhibit is open to the public and will run through Jan. 8, 2019.  For more information about exhibits please contact libraryexhibits@wit.edu.

Here are the slides that complement the exhibit of student photographs, artwork, and poetry. For even more images please take a look at Wentworth’s news story.

Accompanying the exhibit are topical books from the library collection.

Frayling, Christopher. Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years. London, UK: Reel Art Press, 2017.

Friedman, Lester D., and Allison Kavey. Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives. New Brusnwick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016.

Gordon, Charlotte. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley. New York: Random House, 2015.

Perkowitz, Sidney, and Eddy v. Mueller. Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon, the Science and Enduring Allure of Mary Shelley’s Creation. New York: Pegasus Books, 2018.

Piore, Adam. The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human. New York, NY: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.

Saʻdāwī, Aḥmad, and Jonathan Wright. Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2018.

Seymour, Miranda. Mary Shelley. New York: Grove Press, 2000.

Shelley, Mary W., et al. Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of all Kinds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017.

Williams, Gilda. The Gothic. London : Whitechapel; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.

Young, Elizabeth. Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

International Education Week Exhibit

Graphic for International Education Week 2018 Digital Photo Exhibit at Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons, November 13-November 27, 2018

International Education Week — a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education– is celebrated November 12-16, 2018. It is an opportunity to reflect on the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. Among the events scheduled around the Wentworth Institute campus are two displays featured in the Schumann […]

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EPIC Library Exhibit – Buried Treasure: Antique Bottles from Wentworth’s MpA Building Foundation

The exhibit focuses on the display of a series of antique glass bottles discovered during the excavation of Wentworth’s new Multipurpose Academic Building.  The exhibit is free and open to the public and will run until September 12, 2018. Buried Treasure introduces the Wentworth community to the history that can be found, literally, beneath our […]

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Framing Chinese Architecture – Architecture Student Exhibit

Framing Chinese Architecture, April 12 through May 12

Wentworth students studied traditional Chinese timber framing through drawing and models as it evolved from the Sung to the Ming Dynasties (approximately 960-1644CE). Their analysis project are based on the research and drawings of Liang Sicheng (1901-1972) and Lin Huiyin (1904-1955), who were members of the “First Generation” of Chinese Architectural historians, who established the […]

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