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Dickens Society Blog: Call for Posts


The Dickens Society Blog aims to disseminate Dickensian research amongst the Society’s membership, the larger academic community, and the interested public. We welcome ongoing submissions from researchers at any career level on any topic relating to Dickens’s life, work, or world – if you would...

“Revising” Dickens: The Author as Scrooge in Oak Park Festival’s A Dickens Carol


Contributed by Lydia Craig, Loyola University Chicago             A recent adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, entitled A Dickens Carol and directed by Kevin Theis, just experienced its second run at Oak Park Festival Theatre in Chicago, IL in December 2018. Playwright...

Christmas Music in A Christmas Carol in Prose


This post has been contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read Renata’s other posts here and here. Charles Dickens came to reading age during the blossoming of Romanticism (1, p. 31), and Romantic ideas were the ground on which Charles Dickens was...

Call for Expressions of Interest: Dickens Quarterly Editorship


The Dickens Society, in consultation with the Dickens Quarterly Editorial Board, solicits expressions of interest in the role of editor for the Dickens Quarterly. David Paroissien, who has served the journal as editor with inimitable commitment, wisdom, and élan since 1983, has announced that he...

Dickens and Germany, Germany and Dickens


This post has been contributed by Katherine Kim. In July and August of 2018, the Dickens Society Symposium was held for the first time in Germany.  As Natalie J. McKnight noted in her remarks on the first day of the event, Charles Dickens in fact...

How Dickens’s dwarf inspired Nabokov


Contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read Renata’s post on the reception of Dickens’s Christmas stories in Russia here. While Charles Dickens often turned to topics of charity and justice for the underprivileged in his novels, stories and articles, the prose of...

CALL FOR PAPERS: 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, July 26-28, 2019 in Salt Lake City, UT


In July 2019, Dickens goes west, and into the mountains! The 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, co-sponsored by the Dickens Society and Utah Valley University. Proposals from scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students on any topic related...

Help us solve the savage stenographic mystery of “The Two Brothers”


Hugo Bowles and Daniele Metilli Hugo is an applied linguist and associate professor of English at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and has been researching and writing about Dickens’s shorthand for the last three years. His book Dickens and the Stenographic Mind will be...

The Reception of Charles Dickens’s Christmas Stories of the 1840s in Russia up to 1917


Contributed by Renata Goroshkova, a teaching assistant from St. Petersburg State University, Russia. She is now finishing her dissertation on Dickens’s Christmas stories of the 1840s. Charles Dickens has always been highly popular in Russia. His works appeared in Russia as translated versions or recasts...

Forthcoming publication: American Notes


American Notes by Charles Dickens, with an introduction by Diana C. Archibald (Universitas Press, 2018), forthcoming May 22 2018. This is a scholarly edition, annotated and illustrated, addressing the modern reader. Dickens fans and students will find the most balanced approach to annotate and contextualize...