alice through the looking-glass: a companion

Franziska E. Kohlt is a scholar of comparative literature, history of science, and science communication. She is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and the Inaugural Carrollian Fellow of the University of Southern California. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where she explored the shared histories of Victorian psychology and fantastic literature. She has published extensively on the life and works of Lewis Carroll, Victorian science, and childhood cultures.

Justine Houyaux is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Traduction et en Interpretation at the University of Liège, where her research focuses on culture-specific elements in the French translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the prosopography of Carroll’s Interwar translators, and the Surrealist reception of Carroll’s works. She recently edited the annotated Alice au pays des merveilles: Traduction et illustrations de René Bour (2023).