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Eva Tucker Jr., a longtime faculty member at Behrend and a leader in the Erie community.

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Eva Tucker Jr., a longtime faculty member at Behrend and a leader in the Erie community.

A portrait of Penn State Behrend professor Elisa Beshero-Bondar

Elisa Beshero-Bondar

Elisa Beshero-Bondar, a professor of digital humanities and chair of the Digital Media, Arts, and Technology program at Penn State Behrend, is leading an effort to digitally collate five different versions of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein."  

A passage of text from the "Frankenstein Variorum," which compares five different versions of the classic novel.

An excerpt from the "Frankenstein Variorum"

This passage from the "Frankenstein Variorum" highlights Mary Shelley's changes to the novel, which originally was written in 1816. The color-coded circles identify the language that was used in each of the five versions.

A line etching from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

Frankenstein Variorum

Mary Shelley wrote five versions of "Frankenstein." Her name was not attached to the novel until 1823, five years after it was first published.