Category: All News
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Hannah Baumgarten’s Havisham! Explores a Bitter Life
Learn more about the Universe’s featured dance screening from an interview with Artistic Director Hannah Baumgarten, who has a generational connection to the piece.
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NEW! Dickensian Pet Profiles and Pet Calendar
Join in on some furry, Dickensian fun inspired by the Charles Dickens Museum in London! In the best and worst of times, our pets are with us through it all.
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Updated! Lura Johnson and Jason Rudy to Perform This Summer
This summer’s Dickens Universe will feature a performance by pianist Lura Johnson, the Resident Pianist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Principal Pianist of the Delaware Symphony. Johnson will be joined by Jason Rudy, Professor of English at the University of Maryland, blending music, poetry, and discussion for a night to remember.
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Dickens Universe Graduate Winter Conference Report
The Dickens Universe Graduate Winter Conference was a resounding success at the beginning of March. Graduate students from across the Dickens Universe Consortium assembled at the University of Maryland, College Park, to share research on Charles Dickens and nineteenth-century literature.
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Project Offers Continuing Education Credit to Teachers
By Beth Penney, Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member For the first time in a number of years, the Dickens Universe will offer 2.5 units of continuing education credit this summer through the UCSC Extension to high school teachers and community college instructors. This addition to the summer conference was made at the request…
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The 2024 Dickens Day of Writing Continues to Inspire Young Writers
March 28, 2024 By Beth Penney, Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member The third annual Dickens Day of Writing, sponsored in part by the Dickens Project, took place at the Museum of Art and History in downtown Santa Cruz on February 7, attended by high school juniors and seniors from three Santa Cruz County…
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Nora Gilbert, Gaslighting, and the Friends Faculty Fellows
By Beth Penney, Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member According to CNN, “Gaslighting is so commonly discussed that Merriam-Webster deemed the expression its word of the year in 2022, after experiencing a 1,740% increase in searches for the term.” Recent misuse of the term seems to define it as “You don’t agree with me,” or “You’re not…
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Dickens Day of Writing: The Intern’s Story
Berenize Marcelo Amezcua, the 2023-2024 CUIP Intern, reflects on the Dickens Day of Writing.
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Dickens in Columbus
December 22, 2023 By Clark Cloyd and Catherine Springer Charles Dickens didn’t make it to Columbus, Ohio, during his American tours, but he visited Columbus by proxy at the annual NCTE (National Council of the Teachers of English) conference this past November. Atlanta teachers Catherine Springer and Clark Cloyd presided over a Dickens Project booth…
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Dickens, Virtually
Last winter, I registered to attend the Dickens Universe in person, and I was, of course, looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones. But then the hip happened. An arthritic hip suddenly got a lot worse, and I realized that the hills of Santa Cruz (and the dorm beds) were not going…
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The Dickens Project’s First Intern
Meet Berenize Marcelo Amezcua, our accomplished intern selected through UC Santa Cruz’s Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program! Berenize, a junior double-majoring in education and Spanish studies, is learning invaluable professional skills while supporting and expanding our Dickens Day of Writing program.
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Remembering Trude
“Trude certainly made an impact on all of us—a true model of generosity and love of learning. I always looked forward to hearing from the co-teachers of her small discussion group, who invariably appreciated how she taught her fellow participants how to be the best students for one another.”