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Dickens and STEM

Literary Explorations are Just a CLiC Away! Dr Michaela Mahlberg on the CLiC Dickens Project

This review is contributed by Mads Golding, a playwright, writer, and independent scholar who focuses on Charles Dickens and the long 19th century. She is a staff writer for The Dickens Society. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg spoke at the 28th annual Dickens Society Conference to announce...
Nineteenth-century painting of a gentleman having his tooth pulled by a dentist. A dog barks in fright and two customers watch from the doorway

Dental Afterlives: Dickens and Victorian Dentistry

This post is contributed by Eleanor C. Faulkner, PhD student in the department of English and Drama at Queen Mary University, London. Our culture has inherited unsavoury dental practitioners. These include those pilloried by Charlie Chaplin’s silent film ‘Laughing Gas’ (1914), the films Marathon Man...

Dickens at the Intersection of Literacy and Numeracy Anxieties

This post has been contributed by Brittany Carlson, PhD Candidate in the English Department of the University of California, Riverside. She can be found on Twitter @BrittanyAnneCa2 Writer’s block is all too common an experience. An idea is “on the tip of your tongue” one...
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).