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Dickens and Film

From Bleak House to Birmingham: New Perspectives on Dickens at the 29th Annual Symposium

This post was contributed by Dean J. Hill, recipient of the Robert J. Partlow, Jr. Prize at the 2024 Dickens Society Symposium and a postgraduate research student at the University of Birmingham. The Best of Times: A Dickensian Gathering in Birmingham As scholars and literary...

Those ‘Dark Spirits’ Within Us: Interpretive Power & the Legacy of Fandom

This post is contributed by AV Nordgren (they/them), a last-semester graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studying Library & Information Science with a focus on archives and special collections. Is Little Dorrit’s Miss Wade a lesbian? Or is reading her as such...

From Page to Screen: Tracing Decades of “A Christmas Carol” Adaptations

This post is contributed by Melisa Kaya, a graduate with honors in English and Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s University, Canada. As a writer, editor, and researcher, her primary research examines the intersection of literature and science, exploring their mutual influence. Additionally, Melisa engages in...

The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff—TV Christmas Special Review

This post is contributed by Mads Golding. Mads is a playwright and writer currently pursuing an MA in English literature at Loyola University, Chicago. Her research interests include Dickens, Shakespeare, and theater. Mads currently serves as a member of the communications committee for The Dickens...
The Dickens Society

The purpose of the Dickens Society is to conduct, further, and support research, publication, instruction, and general interest in the life, times, and literature of Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870).