Play an interactive experience designed by our partners at Bluecadet and the Rosenbach to explore complex concepts such as climate change, drug-resistant viruses, and artificial intelligence in the tradition of Frankenstein.
Read Judith Guston’s annotation about how nineteenth-century notions of vampirism helped inspire the science of epidemiology.
Read Judith Guston’s annotation about how recent discoveries in synthetic biology could lead to a future in which human limbs are grown and harvested for profit.
The Year Without a Summer
Listen to an episode of the Imaginary Worlds podcast on “The Year Without a Summer,” focusing on the scientific, technological, and climate-related themes and lessons of Frankenstein.
Play Lab Assistant,a game created by Liz Fiacco and James Fiacco based on language processing technology, where you teach a slime creature powered by artificial intelligence how to help you solve puzzles. Lab Assistant is completely free to download and play, and currently only works on Windows machines.
