Produced by: Catherine Charlwood (@DrCharlwood) and Laura Ludtke (@lady_electric) Music composed and performed by Gareth Jones.Laura and Catherine are joined by a special guest: Professor Sharon Ruston (@SharonRuston), Chair in Romanticism at Lancaster University’s Department of English and Creative Writing. Sharon is the author of ​Creating Romanticism ​(2013) and​ Shelley and Vitality ​(2005) and co-editor of the forthcoming ​Collected Letters of Sir Humphrey Davy​. Sharon talks about her LitSci research on Mary Shelley, describes her MOOC on the nineteenth-century chemist Sir Humphrey Davy, and introduces her current project, crowdsourcing transcriptions for Davy’s notebooks. At the end of the episode, you can hear Sharon read an extract from Mary Shelley’s novel​Frankenstein(​1818).Episode resources (in order of appearance):Introduction● Alix Nathan, ​The Warlow Experiment ​(2019)● Jeanette Winterson, ​Frankissstein: A Love Story​ (2019)● Ian McEwan’s ​Machines Like Me​ (2019)Interview● Helen Edmundson, ​Mary Shelley (​ 2012)● Sally Frampton, Sarah Chaney and Sarah Punshon, Mind-Boggling Medical History:https://mbmh.web.ox.ac.uk/homeWe gratefully acknowledge the support of the British Society for Literature and Science Small Grants scheme, to enable us to make Series 2 of the podcast. We hope you’ve enjoyed this episode of LitSciPod - we enjoyed making it!