Esme Rhodes: Esme Rhodes is an actress featuring herein as Eloise Weaver. She recently graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in History. Recent credits include 'Skeleton Crew' at the Edinburgh Fringe (2024), the Weston Library's 'A New Power: Photography in Britain 1800-1850' (2023), and 'Having the Last Word' (2024).
Judith Bunting: Judith Bunting is a screenwriter, with a background as a writer, director, and producer of award-winning content for TV and VOD.
Professor Kei Miller: Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. He completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD in English Literature at University of Glasgow. He is a critically acclaimed author of fiction, and his first collection of short fiction, The Fear of Stones, was shortlisted in 2007 for the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize. He has been a visiting writer at York University in Canada, the Department of Library Services in the British Virgin Islands and a Vera Ruben Fellow. He has won numerous awards for his writing, and is a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter.
Writers:
Lewis Carroll: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy.
Anne Maduzia: Anne Maduzia read English Literature at Jesus College, where she was a Clarendon Scholar. Since reading at Oxford, she has lived and worked in France, Norway, and the United States.
Dr. April Elisabeth Pawar: April Pawar is the Founder of the Oxford Writers’ House. She graduated from St. Anne’s College, Oxford in 2016 with a DPhil in English Literature.
Interviewed Expert:
Dr Franziska Kholt: Dr Kholt is a historian of science, scholar of comparative literature, researcher and practitioner in science communication, with a diverse background in public engagement, heritage and media. She holds a DPhil at the University of Oxford, where she investigated the emergence of Victorian Psychology and Fantastic Literature as sister phenomena. She is an expert on Lewis Carroll and holder of the Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellowship, and editor of the Lewis Carroll Review.
