Dickens and Race
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...
My Personal Journey with Dear Mr. Dickens
This post is contributed by Nancy Churnin, author of Dear Mr. Dickens. The question that propelled Dear Mr. Dickens, my children’s book which won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award, was how could a man as great-hearted and compassionate as Charles Dickens have created the...
Dispatches from the 26th Symposium: Charles Dickens and Peter Pitchlynn
Contributed by Spencer Dodd, PhD Student, Louisiana State University. Recent years have seen significant scholarly interest in Dickens and race, a trend continued by the 2021 Virtual Dickens Symposium, which featured multiple papers analyzing Dickens’s works in the context of racial issues. While these papers...
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