Tutor information
Franziska Kohlt
Dr Franziska Kohlt is an interdisciplinary scholar, writer and communicator in history of science, literature, and science communication, currently Leverhulme Research Fellow in History of Science at the University of Leeds. Her doctorate at Brasenose College, Oxford, investigated the emergence of Victorian Fantastic Literature and Psychology as sister phenomena. Fran regularly appears on international radio and television, and has curated award-winning exhibitions (on Insects, and Automata). She is the Editor of the Lewis Carroll Review and inaugural Carrollian Fellow at USC. When she isn’t engaged in academic work, she sings Gilbert& Sullivan operettas, practices historical fencing, and is an avid gardener.
Courses
Learn why, 150 years later, Alice is still so fascinating to us. This course will explore the real origins of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s in Wonderland, its hidden histories and kaleidoscopic afterlife.
Dreams have always fascinated us, inspiring stories in myth, folklore, literature: stories that have changed our understanding of the unconscious. This course explores these stories and histories of dreams in history, literature and science.