LCSNA Spring 2018 Meeting

“Wonderland as Place: World-Building and Character-Making in the Carroll Universe”: The University of Southern California, home of the Cassady Lewis Carroll Collection, hosted us in Los Angeles, in a meeting timed to coincide with the gala presentation of the 14th annual Wonderland Award. Beginning with a presentation of a fabulous new, award-winning musical Mad World, we heard from Arnold Hirshon (“Beyond Tenniel, or, Contrariwise: If It Wasn’t, Is It Ain’t?”), Linda Gray-Moin (“Fantastic Ducks and Blooming Maidens: A Visit to Mr. Dodgson’s Hearthside”), Heather Simmons (“Pop-Up Wonderland”), Martzi Campos and Yuting Su (“Curiouser and Curiouser: An Interactive Storybook and Experimental Gameplay Experience”), Kerim Yasar and Satako Shimazaki (“On Translating Whimsy and Nonsense in East Asian Languages and Cultures”), and Lisa Mann and Anne-Marie Maxwell (“Lewis Carroll in the Animation and Media-Based Installation Curriculum”).