Faculty leaders Tamara Stasik, Kayla Flegal, and twenty-five DePauw students visited literary sites in Paris, London, and Oxford to explore the relationship between children’s texts and their inspired locales. They played Poohsticks in the Hundred Acre Wood, followed the footsteps of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell in Oxford, visited the sites that shaped the writing and filming of Harry Potter, and explored Hugo Cabret and Madeline’s Paris.

ENG 183 Adapted Enchantment:Children's Literature was also the first Winter Term class to experiment with the Tenzer Technology Center's new 360 cameras! Students were asked to consider how power is navigated through literal and fictional spaces. Students selected particular locations associated with the children’s literature read in class, and used 360 degree cameras to observe these public spaces and those who travel through or occupy them. What potential does this hold for storytelling? What stories are evoked by physical spaces—secrets revealed, truths uncovered? This activity invited us to think about our fictional worlds, their creation, characters, and contexts as well as our physical worlds and the privilege and access provided. Here are their first impressions: