Daily Schedule

Daily Schedule for 2021

2021 Revised Daily Schedule and Assigned Readings

Participants will be asked to read the following novels and graphic novels before the Institute begins:

  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
  • Lita Judge, Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created (2018)
  • Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein (2013)
  • Victor Lavalle’s Destroyer (2017)
  • Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister (2019) 
  • Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella is Dead (2020)

 

Remaking Monsters and Heroines: Adapting Classic Literature for Contemporary Audiences (June 2021 VIRTUAL)

All scheduled events are in Central Standard Time (CST).

 


(Day 1) Sunday, June 13, 2021 – Topic: Introduction to the Institute

Afternoon Session (2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CST)  Introduction to the Institute and Welcome Reception (Goals, objectives, assignments, etc.)

Evening Assignments

  • Watch “A Transmedia Cultural History of Frankenstein” (recorded lecture)
  • Complete the assigned readings: Thomas Leitch, “Chapter 5: Between Adaptation and Allusion” to Film Adaptation and Its Discontents and Lissette Lopez Szwydky, from Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
  • Work on other readings as needed.

 


(Day 2) Monday, June 14 – Topic: Introduction to Adaptation Studies
Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST)
Discussion of Leitch and Szwydky readings
Essential Questions: Why study literature through its adaptations? What constitutes an adaptation? What are different types of adaptations? What is the cultural function of adaptation?

Working Lunch  (12:00 – 2:00 p.m. CST
Watch “Pop Culture Fair” online/interactive exhibition.

Afternoon Session (2:00-4:00 pm CST)
Discussion of “A Transmedia Cultural History of Frankenstein” lecture and “Pop Culture Fair” featuring Frankenstein and Cinderella across forms and media.

Evening Assignment(s)

  • Watch “Historical, Biographical, and Literary Contexts of Mary Shelley’s Novel Frankenstein (1818)” (recorded lecture).
  • Finish reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

 


(Day 3) Tuesday, June 15 – Topic: Teaching Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein   

Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST)
Morning Discussion
Essential Question: What are the sociopolitics of Shelley’s novel? What social and political events shaped Frankenstein? What does Frankenstein have to say about education and democracy?
Readings Due for Discussion: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)

Lunch/Break  (12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CST)

Afternoon Lecture and Discussion (2:00 – 4:00 p.m. CST)
Essential Questions: What are the sociopolitics of Shelley’s novel? What social and political events shaped Frankenstein? What does Frankenstein have to say about education and democracy?

Evening Assignment: read Glenn Jellenik, “A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or ‘It lives!’: adaptive symbiosis and Peake’s Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein” from Adapting Frankenstein: The Monsters Eternal Lives in Popular Culture

 


(Day 4) Wednesday, June 16 – Topic: Adaptation Forms and Media (Part 1)

Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST)
Morning Lecture and Discussion with  Visiting Scholar: Glenn Jellenik
Essential Question: How do the languages of literature and other media intersect in adaptations?

Working Lunch  (12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CST)
Watch Pemberley Digital / PBS Digital adaptation Frankenstein, MD (2014) and two short stop-animation videos.

Afternoon Lecture and Discussion (2:00 – 4:00 p.m. CST)
Essential Questions: How do the short video adaptations assigned help us rethink the socio-politics of Shelley’s 1818 novel? How do adaptations shed new light on older texts by recontextualizing them?

Evening Assignments: Watch video editing lecture (recorded). Read Thomas Leitch, “Literature versus Literacy” from Film Adaptation and Its Discontents

 


(Day 5) Thursday, June 17 – Topic: Adaptation, Culture, Literacy

Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST)
Morning Plenary and Discussion with Visiting Scholar: Dr. Thomas Leitch
Essential Question:  How do adaptations both sustain the literary canon and empower students to critique and remake it?

Working Lunch  (12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CST) 
Listen to Northwest Arkansas Audio Theater recording of Cinderella and sound editing lecture (recorded) 

Afternoon Session (2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CST)
Discussion of Institute project options

Evening Meeting (6:00 – 7:30 p.m. CST)
Sound Effects Demo and Discussion with Northwest Arkansas Audio Theatre  

Evening Assignment: Finish reading Lita Judge’s Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein (2018) and Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein (2013)

 


(Day 6) Friday, June 18 – Adaptation Forms and Media (Part 2)

Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST)
Discussion of Lita Judge, Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein (2018) and Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein (2013)

Lunch/Break and/or Office Hours  (12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CST)

Afternoon Plenary and Discussion (2:00 – 4:00 p.m. CST) with Visiting Artist Lita Judge
Essential Question: What questions and decisions drive the process of adaptation?

 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. CST Individual Meeting Time 
Co-Directors and Project Team will be available for one-on-one conferencing, consultation, and guidance on final projects.

Evening Assignment:

  • Watch “Expanding Students’ Analytical Frameworks Using Graphic Novels” (recorded lecture)
  • Finish reading Victor Lavalle’s Destroyer.
  • Read Sean Connors, “Toward a Shared Vocabulary for Visual Analysis: An Analytic Toolkit for Deconstructing the Visual Design of Graphic Novels”




(Day 7) Saturday, June 19 – Topic: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Illustrated Books

Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST) Discussion of Victor Lavalle’s Destroyer
Essential Question: How do readers draw on the multimodal design of comics to make meaning? How do artists critically engage source texts through combined forms of visual and textual storytelling?

 


(Day 8) Sunday, June 20 

Reading/Independent work day
Assignment: Watch “Making Comics” lecture (video)

  • Complete the assigned readings:
    Linda Hutcheon and Gary Bortolotti, “On the Origins of Adaptations and Rethinking ‘Success’ Biologically” and
  • two essays by Cristina Bacchilega.
  • Giambattista Basille, “The Cat Cinderella”
  • Perrault “Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper”
  • Grimm’s Fairy Tales, “Cinderella”

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. CST Evening Activity
Musical Performance and Discussion: Donna and Kelly Mullhollan (Still on the Hill)

 


(Day 9) Monday, June 21 – Topic: Fairy Tales and Folk Traditions

Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST)
Essential Questions:  What explains the adaptability and longevity of fairy tales?
What are the historical and cultural functions of adaptation?
Discussion of Linda Hutcheon and Gary Bortolotti, “On the Origins of Adaptations and Rethinking ‘Success’ Biologically” and two essays by Cristina Bacchilega, “Adaptation and the Fairy Tale Web” and “Where Can Wonder Take Us.” Discussion of Cinderella stories.

Lunch/Break and/or Office Hours  (12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CST)

Afternoon Session (2:00 – 4:00 p.m. CST) Jennifer Donnelly’s Stepsister 
Essential Question: How do sequels, expansions, and alternative POVs provide new perspectives and challenge us to rethink normative assumptions?

  • 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Discussion of Stepsister
  • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Conversation with Jennifer Donnelly


4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Optional meetings with Project Directors and Institute team members for independent work time, consultation, and guidance on final projects.

Evening Assignment: Finish reading, Kalynn Baron’s Cinderella is Dead; Final Project Work Time




(Day 10) Tuesday, June 22: Adaptation in the Abstract 

Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST)
Teaching with Art: Crystal Bridges 

Working Lunch/Break  (12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CST) Watch Abstract Picture Book Workshop (Recording) 

Afternoon Session (2:00 – 4:00 p.m. CST) Kalynn Bayron’s Cinderella is Dead
Essential Question: How can retellings diversify critical engagement with “the Classics”?

  • 2:00-3:00 p.m. Discussion of Cinderella is Dead
  • 3:00-4:00 p.m.  Conversation with Kalynn Bayron

4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Individual Studio Time/Office Hours  Co-Directors will be available for one-on-one conferencing, consultation, and guidance on final projects.

Evening Assignment: Final Project Work Time

 


(Day 11) Wednesday, June 23 – Field Trip #2: TheaterSquared Experience

Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST) Theatre & Adaptation Workshop at TheatreSquared
Essential Questions: What questions and decisions drive the process of dramatic adaptation? How does enacting a literary text support student comprehension and engagement?  

Lunch/Break  (12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CST)

Afternoon Session (2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. CST)  Theatre & Adaptation Workshop at TheatreSquared

Evening Assignment: Final Project Work Time

 


(Day 12) Thursday, June 24 – Topic: Arts Integration

Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST)
Morning Lecture and Discussion with presenter Hung Pham, Arts Integration Specialist and Director of the Center for Children and Youth, U of Arkansas.

Lunch/Break  (12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. CST)

Afternoon Session (1:00 – 4:00 p.m. CST)  Afternoon Individual Studio Time and Office Hours,Co-Directors will be available for one-on-one conferencing, consultation, and guidance on final projects.

Evening Assignment: Final Project Work Time




(Day 13) Friday, June 25 – Final Project Workday and Closing Plenary Presentation

Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST)
Individual Project Work Time and Office Hours, Co-Directors will be available for one-on-one conferencing, consultation, and guidance on final projects.

Lunch/Break  (12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CST)

Afternoon Session (2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. CST) 
Afternoon Plenary and Discussion with Dr. Cristina Bacchilega, Professor Emerita, University of Hawaii
“Recognizing “Cinderella” and Re-Fashioning Justice in Fairy-Tale Adaptations Today”

Essential Questions: What is the cultural function of fairy tales? How can fairy tale adaptations enhance and expand our understanding and appreciation of intersectional differences: cultural, racial, ethnic, gender/sexuality, class, disability, and other identities? 

Evening Assignment: Final Project Work Time

 


(Day 14) Saturday, June 26 – Final Presentations and Closing Remarks

Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST) Final Project Showcase

Lunch/Break  (12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. CST)

Afternoon Session (1:00-3:00 pm CST) Final Project Debrief/Discussion and Closing Remarks