Teaching Resources
Bring the magic of Dickens to your classroom!
Host a Dickens Day of Writing!
Hosting your own Dickens Day of Writing benefits your students in different ways. During this retreat, they are practicing critical reading skills, analytical reasoning, argumentative writing, creative production, and cultural history that will prepare them for life beyond high school.
Join the NEH Summer Conference
Our summer NEH programs invite teachers into sustained study of major texts and ideas in the humanities, encouraging reading, discussion, writing, and reflection. The goal is to expand knowledge and deepen engagement with scholarship beyond the classroom curriculum.
Faculty Travel Grants
DEADLINE: July 31, 2025
AMOUNT: Up to $600
The Friends of the Dickens Project created the travel grant program to ease faculty members’ financial burden to attend the Dickens Universe conference. Awards are for travel expenses only and are not to be used for the Universe registration fee.
Eligibility: The applicant must be a faculty member, post-doc, or visiting scholar at a Dickens Project Consortium institution.
Report: After travel completion, grant recipients must submit a short report of how the funds impacted their research.