Today at Blackwell’s Bookshop: Alice in Wonderland Panel Discussion

by Tyler on July 6, 2010

I will be taking part in a panel discussion on Alice in Wonderland at Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford, today at 7pm today (GMT). This should be a fun and interesting event with many Alice-experts.

Alice in Wonderland Panel Discussion

Tuesday 6th July at 7pm
Blackwell Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford

A variety of speakers, each with a different perspective on Alice and her Wonderland, will offer their views and interpretations on the world and characters depicted in Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece.

(Click on the book for a link to the event details!).

Alice in Wonderland at Blackwell's

The event is being done in conjunction with the Oxford Story Museum. Click on the image below for more information about the museum and the Alice Day events.

Oxford Story Museum website

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BBC Interview

by Tyler on July 6, 2010

Here’s my interview with BBC Oxford  from July 6th, 1pm GMT.


BBC – Part One


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The OxFam Bookfest Readathon

July 5, 2010

I will be reading Alice in Wonderland at the Oxfam Bookfest Readathon. The Readathon is intended to illustrate the central role that books play in people’s lives and the impact that buying a book from Oxfam can have on the lives of poor people around the world. It will be twenty four hours (9am Monday July 5th [...]

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Alice in Wonderland at Oxford, Part 4

June 30, 2010

Readers of the second Alice story, Through The Looking Glass, might remember the Old Sheep Shop.

As inspiration for the story (and rendered famously in John Tenniel’s illustration above), this shop was where the real life Alice would buy sweets and other treats. Today this is a popular visitor’s spot, The Alice Shop in Oxford, located just [...]

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Alice in Wonderland at Oxford, Part 3

June 25, 2010

Here are a few very special photos. Below is the original, handwritten and illustrated version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from Lewis Carroll, given to Alice Liddell, as well as the original woodcuts that illustraot John Tenniel used to create his iconic Alice images. Simply amazing.

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Alice in Wonderland at Oxford, Part 2

June 23, 2010

Next, some pictures of the famed “rabbit hole staircase” at the rear of the dining hall in Christ Church. As legend has it, this  narrow, winding staircase was the imaginative inspiration for what Lewis Carroll would later transform into Alice’s floating fall through to Wonderland. Not something you can see on the tour.
(Thanks Ilmo and [...]

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Alice in Wonderland at Oxford

June 14, 2010

In anticipation of Alice Day in Oxford next month, I’ll be sharing some special Alice in Wonderland pictures from around Oxford.
Christ Church College might properly be thought of as the birthplace of Alice in Wonderland, where mathematician Charles Dodgson (pen name: Lewis Carroll) first met the real life Alice, Alice Liddell. Various locations around the [...]

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No sense of humor, these British people.

June 9, 2010

A huge crowd of people around Oxford today, so I decide to ask one of the security guards what’s the big deal.
Me: Why are there so many people here?
Guard: Prince Charles is visiting.
Me: Oh. Prince Charles? Who’s that?
Guard: [Blank look]. Are you a student here, Sir? Otherwise I’m going to have to ask you to [...]

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Upcoming Talk: The Boundaries of Literary Copyright: Questions of (De)Materiality in the Digital Age

June 1, 2010

I will be giving a talk this Friday, June 4 on digital books and issues of copyright at the Oxford English Postgraduate Conference. (Click on the image below to go to the Oxford English Department’s website announcement).
[Update: the full conference schedule and program is available. Click here to check it out].
Phillip Pullman will also be [...]

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Book Review: Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy

May 29, 2010

Someone had some brief but nice thoughts about my chapter in this review of Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy. Thanks!

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