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Escaping our Troubled World for a Week of Dickens
We asked second year Universe attendee Don Peri of Davis, California to tell us more about what draws him to Santa Cruz each summer. This Q&A is part of our new series highlighting members of the Dickens Project and Dickens Universe community.
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Comfort Novelist Since Twelve Years Old
We asked nine-time Universe attendee Sandy Bieler Rao of Camarillo, CA to tell us more about what draws her to Santa Cruz each summer. This Q&A is part of our new series highlighting members of the Dickens Project and Dickens Universe community.
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Polio Survivor and Lifelong Dickens Lover
We asked ten-time Universe attendee Terri Leimbach of Sacramento, CA to tell us more about what draws her to Santa Cruz each summer. This Q&A is part of our new series highlighting members of the Dickens Project and Dickens Universe community.
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“I turn to Dickens for a Reset”: From Theater to Dickens
We asked eighth-time Universe attendee Stanley Kramer of Berkeley, CA to tell us more about what draws him to Santa Cruz each summer. This Q&A is part of our new series highlighting members of the Dickens Project and Dickens Universe community.
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Introducing the George Eliot Archive
Tara Thomas, Ph.D. Candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz recently spoke with Beverley Rilett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor in English about launching the George Eliot Archive, an online repository of George Eliot’s writings, reviews, early biographical studies, and portraits.
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Profile: Dickens Universe Consulting Organizer, Brigette Fielder
Brigitte Fielder, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and leader in Frances E.W. Harper studies, will be serving as a Consulting Organizer for the 2020 Dickens Universe. We spoke with her recently to learn more about her goals for the conference.
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FrankenCon
Celebrate and explore the enduring legacy of the world’s first science-fiction horror story with FRANKENCON, a three-day conference of scientists, theorists, and artists on November 21-23, 2019.
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Giving Week 2019: Support High School Students and Teachers
Help us to raise funds for scholarships, books, and paid internships to support high school students from underserved communities and their teachers.
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Graduate Profile: Tara Thomas, Literature Doctoral Candidate
The Humanities Institute (THI) of UC Santa Cruz profiles Literature Ph.D. candidate Tara Thomas, a 2019 THI Summer Research Fellow.
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Guitarist, hiker, writer, Dickens fan
Peter Kosenko, who had Dickens Project founder John Jordan as a professor, has included the project in his estate.
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2019 Review: The Dickens Universe
Monica Barry and Marisol Carrasco-Garcia, undergraduate students from the Dominican University of California, discuss what it’s like to attend the Dickens Universe.
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Caitlin Croughan: Sharing the Joy
Establishing a bequest to the Dickens Project is Caitlin Croughan’s way of making sure this treasure is available to as many people as possible in the years to come.