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OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF WENDY C. NIELSEN

Scholar and Writer

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Upcoming Talk: Frankenstein in the Age of AI

Saturday, May 3rd, 7pm in Studio 104 of Kasser Theater, Montclair State University

Before the Manual Cinema Production of Frankenstein at 8pm

BIO

Wendy C. Nielsen earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis and is currently Professor of English at Montclair State University. Her interest in solving why certain figures recur in British, French, and German literature and culture is exemplified in the books Women Warriors in Romantic Drama and Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650-1890She has published scholarly essays on world literature, Romantic-era automata, theater, the French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Olympe de Gouges, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elizabeth Inchbald, Charlotte Corday, and Boadicea.

MOTHERLESS CREATIONS: FICTIONS OF ARTIFICIAL LIFE, 1650-1890

Wendy C. Nielsen's most recent book examines motherless creations in American, British, French, and German literature: Pygmalion’s statue, Frankenstein’s creature, homunculi, automata, androids, golems, and steam men. This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in Western speculative fiction before 1890.

If I had to define life in one word . . . I would say: Life is creation.

Claude Bernard

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