Think of this page as our “To Wonderland” direction sign: it tells you what kind of journey you’re beginning, what questions will guide us, and what tools you’ll use along the way.
Use this page to:
For the week-by-week path — readings, screenings, discussions, and due dates — follow the Weekly Map.
Since Lewis Carroll published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, the story has traveled widely, translated into dozens of languages and reimagined across film, television, theatre, illustration, games, and more. From Disney and Tim Burton to anime homage, Alice returns in countless forms. Why does Wonderland keep coming back, and what changes when it moves from page to stage to screen? In this first-year seminar we will trace Alice’s transcultural, transmedia afterlives from the nineteenth century to the present. Through close analysis of key adaptations, we will explore childhood, selfhood, play, transformation, and the politics of fantasy, asking what each version reveals about the moment and medium that produced it.
By the end of this course, you will be able to: