LCSNA Fall 2016 Meeting

The Fall 2016 meeting tool place at the Washington Square campus of New York University (home of the Berol Collection of Lewis Carroll, and the LCSNA archives) on October 15th. Fales Library director Marvin Taylor spoke about the exhibition they mounted in the Bobst as part of the Alice150 festivities, “‘Go Ask Alice’: Alice, Wonderland, and Popular Culture.” Monica Edinger, keeper of the well-regarded blog “Educating Alice,” and some of her students gave us a presentation about her use of Alice in her elementary classroom. Matt Demakos spoke about his research concerning “The Walrus and the Carpenter.” Children’s Literature specialist Dr. Jan Susina gave a talk tentatively titled “Alice in the Academy: The Alice Books in the College Curriculum,” Dana Walrath took on her illustrated novel Aliceheimers and her use of Alice in making sense of the world of Alzheimer’s.