History of the Universe

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YearNovel(s)ProgramBibliographySenior Organizer(s)Junior Organizer(s)PhotosPre-Conference
2026Bleak HouseHelena Michie (Rice University) Sara Hackenberg (San Francisco State University)
2025The Old Curiosity Shop 
Schedule
ProgramBibliographyAman Garcha (Ohio State University)Photo Gallery
2024Great Expectations ProgramBibliographyRae Greiner (Indiana University)Aman Garcha (Ohio State University)Photo Gallery
2023A Tale of Two Cities ProgramTricia Lootens (University of Georgia) and Jason Rudy (University of Maryland, College Park)Rae Greiner (Indiana University)
2022David Copperfield and Iola Leroy or, Shadows UpliftedProgramDavid Copperfield Bibliography
Iola Leroy Bibliography
Ryan Fong (Kalamazoo College)Tricia Lootens (University of Georgia) and Jason Rudy (University of Maryland, College Park)Photo Gallery
2021A Christmas CarolProgramBibliography
2020Virtual Universe, Introduction to Iola Leroy or, Shadows UpliftedProgramRyan Fong (Kalamazoo College)Tricia Lootens (University of Georgia) and Jason Rudy (University of Maryland, College Park)
2019Barnaby RudgeProgramBibliographyHelena Michie (Rice University)Ryan Fong (Kalamazoo College)Photo Gallery
2018Little DorritProgramBibliographyJonathan Grossman (UC Los Angeles)Helena Michie (Rice University)Photo Gallery
2017MiddlemarchProgramBibliographyNancy Henry (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)Jonathan Grossman (UC Los Angeles)Form and Reform
2016Dombey and SonProgramBibliographyNancy Henry (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)Photo Gallery
2015Martin Chuzzlewit and American NotesProgramBibliographyThe Long, Wide Nineteenth Century
2014Our Mutual FriendProgramBibliography
2013The Mystery of Edwin Drood and The MoonstoneBibliography
2012Bleak House
ProgramBibliographyDickens! Author and Authorship
2011Great Expectations
BibliographyVictorian Futures
2010Oliver Twist and Sketches by BozProgramOliver Twist Bibliography
Sketches by Boz Bibliography
2009David CopperfieldProgramBibliography
2008Hard Times and Mary BartonProgramBibliography
2007The Pickwick PapersProgramBibliography
2006Nicholas NicklebyProgramBibliographyUrbanism, Urbanity, and the 19th-Century Novel
2005Little DorritProgramBibliographyDickens: Life and Afterlife
2004A Tale of Two CitiesProgramBibliographyVictorian Terrors
2003The Old Curiosity Shop
ProgramBibliographyVictorian Soundings
2002Dombey and Son
ProgramBibliographyVictorian Business
2001Bleak HouseProgramBibliographyVictorian Exhibitions
2000Our Mutual FriendProgramVictorian Waste
1999Barnaby RudgeProgramBibliographyVictoria Redressed: Feminism and 19th-Century Studies
1998Oliver Twist and the Alice BooksProgramForms of Victorian Violence
1997David Copperfield and Pride and PrejudiceProgramReversions: 20th-Century Appropriations of 19th-Century Culture
1996The Christmas BooksProgramVictorian Spectacle
1995Great Expectations and Jane EyreProgramVictorian Mind
1994Hard TimesProgramVictorian Work
1993The Mystery of Edwin DroodProgramVictorian Mystery
1992Nicholas NicklebyProgramVictorian Literature and the Visual Imagination
1991The Pickwick PapersProgramMasterpieces in the Marketplace: Victorian Publishing and the Circulation of Books
1990Little DorritProgramDebt and Victorian Culture
1989The Old Curiosity ShopProgramDickens, Sentimentality, and Victorian Culture
1988Bleak HouseProgramLegal Fictions: Dickens, Victorian Society, and the Law
1987Dombey and SonProgramDickens, Women, and Victorian Culture
1986Our Mutual FriendProgramDickens, Shakespeare, and the Theatre
1985Oliver TwistCinematic Affinities: Dickens, Fiction, and Film
1984Martin ChuzzlewitProgramDickens and Twain
1983David CopperfieldProgramPhoto GalleryVictorian Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction
1982A Tale of Two CitiesProgramDickens and Carlyle
1981Great ExpectationsProgram
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