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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...

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...

The David Paroissien Prize

The David Paroissien Prize is awarded each year to the best peer-reviewed essay on Dickens published in a journal or edited collection. The Prize is named for David Paroissien, a founding member of the Dickens Society and also the founder of Dickens Quarterly, which he edited from its...

CFP: “Portrayals of the Working Class in Dickens and Lawrence”

The Dickens Society and the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America invite papers for a joint panel on this topic. Papers comparing the two writers are especially welcome. Abstracts of 250-300 words and a brief curriculum vitae. Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 19 March 2022 MLA...

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...

Call for Blog Co-Editor

The Dickens Society is currently accepting applications for co-editor of our blog. Any interested parties should email their qualifications to Dr. Catherine Quirk at: Quirkc@edgehill.ac.uk The Society is interested in growing the blog to become a more open-source platform for researchers at any stage of...

Tribute to David Paroissien, Long-time DS Member and Former DQ Editor

Tributes and condolences for family and friends can be left by clicking the “Comment” link above, to the right of the date. David Paroissien died peacefully, reading a book at ten in the evening on 8 September 2021, at his home in Oxford....

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...

Call for Posts for the Dickens Society Blog

The Dickens Society Blog is under new editorship! Dr Katie Bell and Katie Holdway are looking for engaging submissions from scholars at all career stages on any aspect of Dickensian research. For the fall/winter term of 2020, we particularly welcome posts from researchers new to...

#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...