Events
London Tide – A Review
This post is contributed by Deborah Siddoway, a PhD candidate at Durham University and a novelist, whose debut novel Dark Waters, is published on 12 September 2024 by Bloodhound Books. This review is based on my visit to the National Theatre for the evening performance...
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...
Dickens isn’t dead. At least, not to begin with. Thoughts on Zadie Smith’s “The Fraud”; A Book Review
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. Zadie Smith’s “The Fraud” can be purchased at The Seminary Co-op, Barnes and...
Symposia Galore: Rochester (NY) to Birmingham (UK)
This post is contributed by Miriam Helmers and Elizabeth Grimshaw. The Dickens Society generously provided both authors with bursaries to offset Symposium costs. Elizabeth Grimshaw is currently working at the University of Cambridge library while completing her PhD on Charles Dickens and the Magic Lantern...
The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Presents “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens–a Theatre Review
Kareem Bandealy as Jacob Marley and Larry Yando as Ebenezer Scrooge in Goodman Theatre’s A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Tom Creamer. Photo: Liz Lauren This review is contributed by Mads Golding, a playwright, writer, and independent scholar who focuses on Charles Dickens...
Call for Bursary Applications: Dickens Under Glass (Rochester, NY)
The Dickens Society annually provides bursaries to support the scholarly development of graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty. For our Symposium in Rochester, NY this year, we will be offering bursaries for various social media responsibilities and assistance during the event. We will be...
CFP: Write for The Dickens Society Blog!
The Dickens Society Blog is under new editorship! Dr Katie Bell and Michelle Crowther (not pictured in the illustration above) are looking for engaging submissions from scholars at all career stages on any aspect of Dickensian research. We particularly welcome posts from researchers new to...
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...
In Conversation With: Dr Chris Louttit
Chris Louttit is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He is the current Vice-President of the Dickens Society, having served previously as a Trustee and been a frequent participant at Dickens Society Symposia since 2004. His PhD was on...
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