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We’re Recruiting!

Calling all Dickens Society members! Have you ever dreamt of playing a larger role in the Dickens Society? Did you have such a wonderful time live-tweeting a conference that you never wanted to stop?Are you a genius at conducting, editing, and posting video interviews? Join...

Sean Grass on the Dickens Society YouTube Channel

Dr. Sean Grass (Professor of English, Rochester Institute of Technology) is currently the Vice-President and President-Elect of the Dickens Society and a long-time member. Sean Grass is Professor of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has authored several essays and three books, The...

Dickens Society Blog: Call for Posts

The Dickens Society Blog aims to disseminate Dickensian research amongst the Society’s membership, the larger academic community, and the interested public. We welcome ongoing submissions from researchers at any career level on any topic relating to Dickens’s life, work, or world – if you would...

Dickens Society Blog: Call for Posts

The Dickens Society Blog aims to disseminate Dickensian research amongst the Society’s membership, the larger academic community, and the interested public. We welcome ongoing submissions from researchers at any career level on any topic relating to Dickens’s life, work, or world – if you would...

Call for Expressions of Interest: Dickens Quarterly Editorship

The Dickens Society, in consultation with the Dickens Quarterly Editorial Board, solicits expressions of interest in the role of editor for the Dickens Quarterly. David Paroissien, who has served the journal as editor with inimitable commitment, wisdom, and élan since 1983, has announced that he...

Forthcoming publication: American Notes

American Notes by Charles Dickens, with an introduction by Diana C. Archibald (Universitas Press, 2018), forthcoming May 22 2018. This is a scholarly edition, annotated and illustrated, addressing the modern reader. Dickens fans and students will find the most balanced approach to annotate and contextualize...

Charles Dickens and Barnaby Rudge: The First Description of Williams Syndrome?

This post has been contributed by Darren Eblovi, MD, MPH and Christopher Clardy, MD. In 1961, J.C.P. Williams described four patients with common atypical facial features, heart defects, and intellectual disability. Williams syndrome, as this condition has since been named, is caused by a genetic...

Forthcoming article: ‘Names in Dickens: The Trouble with Dombey‘

NAMES IN DICKENS: THE TROUBLE WITH DOMBEY Stephen B. Dobranski Modern Philology 114.2 (2016), pp. 388–410. Attendees of the 2016 Dickens Universe, which focused on Dombey and Son, may be particularly interested in this forthcoming article by Stephen B. Dobranski: “Critics and readers have long...
The Dickens Society

The purpose of the Dickens Society is to conduct, further, and support research, publication, instruction, and general interest in the life, times, and literature of Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870).