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The 2019 Dickens Universe explores a tale of two riots with students from South LA
One of the highlights at this year’s Dickens Universe will be a featured exhibit coming to the campus from Los Angeles along with Jacqueline Barrios, who is using a Dickens novel to explore the impact and history of the Los Angeles riots of 1992 with her high school students.
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Ensuring Dickens Prospers
Retired attorney, former literature professor, current film producer Mike Stern make a planned gift to the Dickens Project.
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The Draw of Dickens and “Brigadoon” Friendships
Eleven-time Dickens Universe attendee, Svein Arber, describes what continues to draw him back to Santa Cruz each summer.
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The Dickens Universe as an Introduction to Academic Spaces
Sarah Bufkin attended the Dickens Universe as a high school student and winner of the Dickens Project’s national essay contest in 2007. She is now pursuing a doctorate in political theory All Souls College in Oxford.
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From Dickens to Austen and Beyond
Emma Brodey won the Dickens Project’s national high school essay contest to attend the Dickens Universe in 2013 and now is studying English at Yale University.
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In Pursuit of an Education, Not a Degree
Featuring JoAnna Rottke, Friend of the Dickens Project President and former Assistant Director of the Dickens Project. “When I retired from the Dickens Project after nearly 20 years, I decided to share a percentage of my 403b as a bequest to the Project. During my 20 years of employment, the Project gave me so much,…
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Generational Dickens
Featuring Glenna Matthews. Glenna Matthews fell in love with Dickens as a child when she and her parents began reading his novels together. One of the first they read was The Pickwick Papers, which still stands as one of her favorite Dickens novels. According to Glenna, her mother’s favorite was David Copperfield. After the passing of her…
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Dickens by the Year
Featuring Trude Hoffacker Trude Hoffacker has had the pleasure of watching the Dickens Project and Dickens Universe grow into what it is today. Small wine and cheese gatherings became grand celebrations, and the once small-scale Victorian tea became a staple of the Universe experience. Trude has made Dickens Project history as one of the few…
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An Investment for Posterity
Featuring Aleck and Nancy Darr. Aleck and Nancy Darr have been involved with Dickens Universe for over twenty years. Aleck is a retired health research analyst who studied at UC Santa Cruz in Stevenson College and Nancy is a retired programmer and analyst who studied literature at Sacramento State. It was their mutual interest in Dickens…
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Great expectations and the general magic of failure
A new film by Dickens Universe regular and benefactor Mike Stern is the story of a little-known company that set in motion much of our technological world.
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Reading Like a Victorian Q&A with the Dickens Project
We sat down with one of the creators of the website, Reading Like a Victorian, to hear more about their project, which facilitates the study of Victorian serial novels in their “original serial moments”. Reading Like a Victorian was created by Robyn Warhol, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University,…
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Barnaby Lab at Foshay Learning Center
Carl Wilson, Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member, reports on his visit to South Los Angeles to celebrate the conclusion of Barnaby Lab with Foshay Learning Center’s senior AP English class.