Dickens and Language
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...
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...
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...
Hugo Bowles on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Dr Hugo Bowles (Associate Prof of English Language and Linguistics, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata) pursues many research interests, such as applied linguistics, particularly stylistics, English for specific purposes, and language education. Bowles’s latest book “Dickens and the Stenographic Mind”...
Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel
Prof Matthias Bauer (Karls Eberhard University, Tübingen, Germany) and Asst Prof Angelika Zirker (Karls Eberhard University) have each published on the work of Charles Dickens individually, publishing several papers in collaboration. Bauer did his PhD on “David Copperfield” (1850) and has produced a number of...
Dickens and Language: The 23rd Annual Dickens Society Symposium
This post has been contributed by Bethan Carney and Carolyn Gonzalez At the tail end of July 2018, in a blistering heatwave, more than 80Dickens Society members converged on the picturesque town of Tübingen, Germany for the 23rd Annual Dickens Society Symposium. Travelling from all...
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...
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...
Dickens Society Blog: Call for Posts
At the end of July, the 23rd Dickens Society Symposium will be held at Tübingen University. More information can be found here. The research context at Tübingen links literary studies with linguistics. Hence, the conference invites papers on Dickens and Language, including (but not limited...
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