** watch future Linda Hall Library lectures live at new.livestream.com/lindahall ** August 16, 2018, in the Main Reading Room of the Linda Hall Library. The program: If your knowledge of the Frankenstein story begins and ends with the movies, you are missing out. Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, is at once more frightening than any of its filmed versions, and also a deeply personal account of what it means to be ‘human.’ After reading this book, you could come away wondering who was the real monster. Join Library President Lisa Browar and UMKC’s Professor Jennifer Phegley in a lively conversation about Frankenstein. The speakers: Lisa Browar was appointed President of the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology in July 2008. Prior to accepting this position, she was University Librarian at The New School in New York City from 2002 until July 2008. Lisa holds a BA in English from Indiana University, an MA in English and American Literature from the University of Kansas, an MLS from Indiana University, and an Executive MA in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She began her career as Assistant Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature at Yale University’s Beinecke Library, and proceeded to become the Curator of Special Collections at Vassar College, the Assistant Director for Rare Books and Manuscripts at The New York Public Library, and the Director of the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Lisa is a member of the Grolier Club and the University Club. She has served as both secretary and chair of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and was appointed to the New York State Historical Records Advisory Board by Governor Mario Cuomo. She was co-editor of the ACRL journal, RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, for six years, and has published and lectured widely on topics concerning literary biography, manuscript curatorship, and the history of the publishing industry. Jennifer Phegley is Professor and Associate Chair of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she teaches nineteenth-century literature and culture. Professor Phegley is the author of Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England (Praeger 2012) and Educating the Proper Woman Reader: Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation (The Ohio State University Press 2004). She co-edited Transatlantic Sensations (Ashgate 2012), Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Palgrave 2010), and Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present (University of Toronto Press 2005). She is currently working on a book about the publishing partnerships of John Maxwell and Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Sam and Isabella Beeton called Magazine Mavericks: Marital Collaborations and the Invention of New Reading Audiences in Mid-Victorian England, for which she was awarded both the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals’ Curran Fellowship (2013) and a Harry Ransom Research Center Fellowship (2015). Professor Phegley earned a BA in English and history from Texas State University and an MA and PhD in English from The Ohio State University. Video produced by The VideoWorks of Roeland Park, Kansas.

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