Monthly Archives: August 2018

EDIT: This talk is now happening on Wednesday, 26th September 2018, 2:30-3:30pm!

I’m very excited to be giving a talk on ‘Automata in Literature and Culture’, fathoming the literary and psychological depths of our fascination with automata through history at  The Marvellous Mechanical Museum exhibition, for which I acted as a consultant, at Compton Verney – Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown‘s former abode. With Greek Mythology, Frankenstein, Rowland Emmet (and possibly even LEGO), there’s definitely going to be something for everybody! Tickets include entry to the exhibition (which you must see!).

PS: Don’t miss out on the gorgeous book accompanying the exhibition for which I wrote an essay!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnGcvOfAq4x/?taken-by=frankendodo

Earlier this week I was privileged to be interviewed about my doctoral research for a new video for the Oxford Grad Study Campaign. For this I was thrilled to return to Christ Church Library (thanks so much to Steven & Cristina for arranging everything on the day!), to introduce some items from their Lewis Carroll Collection, which included early sketches by Carroll for the characters in Alice in Wonderland, proof pages, as well as the presentation first edition copy of Alice to the college library, some of Carroll’s original photographs and letters (click through the Instagram gallery to see a few of those items) – what a memorable day!