This summer, it will be my honor to cover Dr. Amy Clarke’s regular UC Davis Study Abroad class called Oxford: Portal to Fantasy.

Right now, I’m having a wonderful time revisiting some classics (and reading a few new ones). The course includes the following novels:

1. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
2. Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
3. C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
4. J. R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Diane Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
6. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Philip Pullman, The Book of Dust

My students will be coming from UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, UCLA, and Foothill College.