Tara Thomas

Tara Thomas is a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz studying Victorian and Roman decadence. Tara has worked as a K-12 ESL teacher and as a teaching assistant at UC Santa Cruz, where she will teach Victorian literature in the fall. She has been involved with the Dickens Project since 2013, when she began attending the Dickens Universe as a graduate student representative. Since then, she has worked as a graduate student researcher for the Dickens Project and will be curating an exhibition for the 2019 Dickens Universe. She is currently facilitating the Dickens Project’s Santa Cruz Pickwick Club’s reading of Little Dorrit, and will be teaching The Mystery of Edwin Drood this coming fall. She continues attending Dickens Universe each year for the unique opportunity to attend a conference with a diverse group of participants who come together over a shared appreciation for Dickens.