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Invitation to a Dimensions Programme Lecture

Van Mildert College Dimensions Programme presents

FRANKENSTEIN

Professor Tom Mole

Professor of English Literature and Book History
Principal of Van Mildert College, Durham University
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Elma Dangerfield Prize and Saltire Award Prize Winner

Tuesday 8 February, 7 pm
Ustinov Room

Kicking off our first event of 2022, please join us in warmly welcoming Professor Tom Mole, Principal of Van Mildert College, for an evening guaranteed to fascinate! Whether you are a book lover, passionate writer, or simply adore the classic story of Frankenstein, this lecture is not one to miss!

A 2016 study found that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was the book most often assigned on American university courses, pushing Plato’s Republic and the Communist Manifesto into second and third place respectively. In this entertaining lecture, Tom Mole asks what accounts for its extraordinary popularity. He turns his gaze back to the birth of Mary Shelley’s creation in 1816, explains how critics have interpreted the novel, and examines our ongoing fascination with Victor Frankenstein and his creature.

All members of Van Mildert College are welcome – both undergraduate and postgraduate – regardless of academic discipline. We would be delighted to see as many of our community as possible!

More about Professor Mole…

Tom Mole is Principal of Van Mildert College and Professor of English Literature and Book History at Durham University. He is the author or editor of Byron’s Romantic Celebrity (2007), Romanticism and Celebrity Culture (ed., 2009), What the Victorians Made of Romanticism (2017), and The Secret Life of Books (2019), as well as (with Michelle Levy) The Broadview Reader in Book History (ed. 2014) and The Broadview Introduction to Book History (2017). His books have won the Elma Dangerfield Prize from the International Byron Society and the Saltire Award for Best Research Book.

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