Dr Hugo Bowles (Associate Prof of English Language and Linguistics, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata) pursues many research interests, such as applied linguistics, particularly stylistics, English for specific purposes, and language education. Bowles’s latest book “Dickens and the Stenographic Mind” (Oxford University Press, 2018) explores the role of stenography in the literary and non-literary writing of Charles Dickens. His research sheds light on a little-known area of Dickens’s professional life and is relevant to a number of important debates in Victorian studies, including orality and literacy in the nineteenth century, the role of voice and voicing in Dickens’s writing process, his relationship with his readers, and his various writing personae as law reporter, sketch-writer, journalist, and novelist. In order to facilitate research into this subject, Bowles hopes to digitize and decipher all of Dickens’s short-hand notes and works with the aid of libraries holding these writings.

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Dickens and the Stenographic Mind (Oxford University Press, 2018): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/dickens-and-the-stenographic-mind-9780198829072?cc=us&lang=en&