News & Announcements

USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI) seniors tackle George Eliot’s novel in five hours of non-stop reading

Special guest visitor, Janet Napolitano, speaks about the importance of the Dickens Project within the context of a research university.

Long-time Dickens Universe attendee and Friends of the Dickens Project board member, Beth Penney, reports on the activities of the 2016 Dickens Universe conference.

The Dickens Project-NAI Partnership continues with a Dombey and Son Intensive on the USC campus in Los Angeles.

The Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz has received a $119,417 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a four-week NEH Summer Seminar that will be held on campus in 2016.

UC Santa Cruz has received a $500,000 gift, plus matching funds from the UC Regents, to establish a $1 million Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies.

The Dickens Project has partnered with the USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative.

Literature Professor John Jordan announced an endowment drive to support the Dickens Project today at the annual Dickens Universe gathering now taking place on campus

Recently, the Dickens Project shipped some tee shirts to Rwanda.