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Call for 2021 Dickens Society Symposium Bursary Applications
Call for 2021 Dickens Society Symposium Bursary Applications The Dickens Society annually provides bursaries of to support the scholarly development of graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty. Though our symposium is virtual this year, we will be offering a modest bursary of...
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...
The Use of Dickens in Popular Fiction: ‘Spirited’ by Julie Cohen
By Deborah Siddoway The ‘making of fiction is an inseparable part of his being.’ So said Peter Ackroyd of Dickens in his 1990 biography of the inimitable author. [1] And as we now commemorate the life of Dickens in the 150th year since his death,...
Call for Papers for the 26th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, “Dickens in Print.” July 11-14, 2021, Rochester, New York
Given our recent postponement of London 2020, this year’s proposal process will work a little differently. If you were accepted for the 2020 meeting and you wish to propose the same paper, please do so, and you will be accepted again. (Asking you to re-send...
#Dickens150: The First Global Online Gathering for Dickens
This conference report has been contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read her most recent posts here and here. June 9 will definitely go down in the history of Dickens studies since it marked the first online large-scale zoom conference. #Dickens150, organized...
A New Dickensian Venture
“I heard some voices, familiar in my ears I thought” Bleak House, ch. 37 The Dickens Society is excited to announce their latest venture in all things Dickensian, this one carefully curated for your ears, and thus for your walks, commutes, and relaxation. That’s right,...
Dickens and the Carceral Archipelago
This post has been contributed by Spencer Dodd, University of Wisconsin-Stout. See more posts in response to the 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium here and here. Prisons loom large in the landscapes of Dickens, standing as discrete, foreboding edifices within the quintessentially “Dickensian” backdrop of...
CULTIVATING THE FUTURE OF DICKENS SCHOLARSHIP
THE 24TH ANNUAL DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM STUDENT WORKSHOPS This post has been contributed by Katherine J. Kim (Assistant Professor of English, Molloy College). From July 26th-29th, 2019, the 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium was held in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah at the Hotel Monaco. During...
Call for Papers: The 25th Annual Dickens Society Symposium
OUR DICKENS: DICKENS AND HIS PUBLICS 17th-19th July 2020, Bloomsbury, London In 2020, the 150-year anniversary of Dickens’s death, the annual Dickens Society Symposium will take place in Bloomsbury, Dickens’s home for periods of time and where he produced some of his most memorable...
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”...
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