<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="em-content_about" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:3.75rem 0px 2.5rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.44px"><div class="em-about_description" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75">Did you see <i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit">Frankenstein </i>(2025)? Did you know that the <a href="https://library.ucr.edu/collections/eaton-collection-of-science-fiction-fantasy" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,61,165);text-decoration-line:none">Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy</a> in the Tomás Rivera Library at UCR has a first edition of Mary Woolstonecraft Shelley's <i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit">Frankenstein; or, the Modern Promethus,</i> from 1818? Join English professor andré carrington and doctoral students in English for this roundtable discussion about Guillermo del Toro's 2025 <i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit">Frankenstein</i>. Panelists will discuss the meanings of monsters, (re)animation, feminism and science fiction, and the histories of <i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit">Frankenstein</i> in literature and culture. <b>Refreshments</b> will be served.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75">Featuring:</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75">Loren Barbour</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75">Kris Lien</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75">Rhiannon Rogers</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75">Prof. andré carrington</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75"> </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75">This is a hybrid event. RSVP if you plan to attend remotely: <a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/Yu9cMh06Q6yGhYm6yjXm6g" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,61,165);text-decoration-line:none">https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/Yu9cMh06Q6yGhYm6yjXm6g</a> </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75">HMNSS 1500 | 3:00p.m. | Wednesday, April 1, 2026 </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75"> </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75">Sponsored by the <a href="http://english.ucr.edu/" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,61,165);text-decoration-line:none">Department of English</a> and the <a href="http://sfcs.ucr.edu/" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,61,165);text-decoration-line:none">Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science</a></p></div></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>andré m. carrington <br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Associate Professor of English</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Director, </span><a href="https://sfts.ucr.edu/directors-report" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science</a><br></div><div>--</div><div>Editor, <a href="https://www.loa.org/books/the-black-fantastic-20-afrofuturist-stories-paperback/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>The Black Fantastic</i></a>, Library of America, 2025</div><div><a href="https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html" target="_blank"><i>Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama & the Black Fantastic Imagination</i></a></div><div><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction</i></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>