Events
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...
Bleak House, Looking Outward, and Dickens at NAVSA
This post has been contributed by Catherine Quirk. See her previous posts here and here. The theme for this year’s North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference, held in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida from 11-14 October, was “Looking Outward.” On first glance, this would seem...
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...
CALL FOR PAPERS: 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, July 26-28, 2019 in Salt Lake City, UT
In July 2019, Dickens goes west, and into the mountains! The 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, co-sponsored by the Dickens Society and Utah Valley University. Proposals from scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students on any topic related...
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...
Dickens Day 2017
This post has been contributed by Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott, a PhD researcher studying magicians, both fictional and real, and conjuring in the nineteenth century. Find her on Twitter @beeashlell. Saturday 14th October saw a full house gather for the annual Dickens Day conference at Senate House...
Oliver! Captivate Theatre
This post has been contributed by Erin Horáková. Read her previous posts here and here. “Oliver, never before has a boy—“ no, sorry. I have come to review Captivate Theatre’s Edinburgh Fringe production of Oliver! at the Rose Theatre, not to launch into the big...
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