It is exciting to announce that I have completed all coursework and passed all of my candidacy exams and am now ABD! That means I now face the challenge of working on my dissertation, titled “Adapting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Philosophy.” One chapter, about adaptations of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau is complete already, so I’m excited to jump into Chapter Two, which is all about adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.

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Image: Two excited hedgehogs, one on his back on the ground and the other approaching with arms outstretched from above. Alice’s shoes and skirt appear in the background. From Peter Newell’s illustrated edition of Alice in Wonderland.