Dickens Sessions at 2012 MLA Meeting

November 29, 2011

By JoAnna Rottke, Dickens Project Coordinator 

John O. Jordan at 2008 Dickens Universe. Photo by Ken Berke.

The 2012 meeting of the Modern Language Association takes place in Seattle in January. The convention runs from Thursday January 5 through Sunday January 8.

The Dickens Project, in conjunction with the Dickens Society, will host two sessions on Dickens. On Saturday, Claire Jarvis (Stanford Univ.) will moderate a panel called "Dickensian Things," followed on Sunday by "Dickensian Beginnings," moderated by Kate Brown (Univ. at Buffalo). In addition, there is a session called "Dickens In France" that is hosted by the Division on Nineteenth-Century French Literature