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MARK A. MCCUTCHEON
Mark A. McCutcheon is a literary critic, copyright scholar, author, and DJ. He has written a cultural studies book on Canadian Frankenstein adaptations, THE MEDIUM IS THE MONSTER (2018) and a debut poetry book, SHAPE YOUR EYES BY SHUTTING THEM (2019). His recent publications include the introduction to Christian Bök's MY WORKS YE MIGHTY (2025) and an Afterword for Elizabeth Effinger et al's ERASING FRANKENSTEIN (2024). Mark prefers when possible to publish work in Open Access editions; he's never touched so-called "gen ai" and never will.
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THE MEDIUM IS THE MONSTER
Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English. It was then Marshall McLuhan’s media theory and its adaptations in Canadian popular culture that popularized, even globalized, a Frankensteinian sense of technology. The Medium Is the Monster shows how we cannot talk about technology – that human-made monstrosity – today without conjuring Frankenstein, thanks in large part to its Canadian adaptations by pop culture icons such as David Cronenberg, William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, and Deadmau5. In the unexpected connections illustrated by The Medium Is the Monster, McCutcheon brings a fresh approach to studying adaptations, popular culture, and technology.
SHAPE YOUR EYES BY SHUTTING THEM
In this inventive collection of poems, McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play and deploys the Surrealist practices of juxtaposition. Moving from eroticism to the macabre and from transformative quotation to the individual idiom, Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them explores intertextuality in poetry by challenging the cultural tradition of seeing quotation as derivative.
