Category: The Dickens Project
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“I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”
After missing last summer’s Dickens Universe, the Project’s Assistant Director, Courtney Mahaney, is overjoyed to return this year–now with a new gait!
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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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Winter Graduate Conference
A review of the annual Dickens Universe Graduate conference, where scholars from across the nation connected academically and personally by engaging in small-group intensive workshops centered on selected graduate student papers.
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Dickens Project honored with the 2023 Award of Merit from the California Association of Teachers of English
The California Association of Teachers of English award recognizes the Dickens Project’s long history of outreach and partnerships with high school students and teachers.
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Supporting the Dickens Project’s LitLabs and Day of Writing Programs
The Dickens Project has invited high school students and teachers from Los Angeles together for a week of intensive study at the Dickens Universe summer conference for many years. Help The Friends of Dickens Project expand this opportunity to local high schools in Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito counties.
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Local Educators Launch New Writing Program for High Schoolers
An article about the Dickens Project’s new writing program, the Dickens Day of Writing
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Doubly Relevant
An article on the Dickens Project’s 2022 grad student conference that was held in the winter over Zoom.
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New grant to support Dickens Project programming in year ahead
The programming in 2022 is focused on questions of race and social justice in the 19th century and today, with the summer’s Dickens Universe event broadening its purview
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Shortland Mysteries: ‘Decoding Dickens’ Prize
The Dickens Code Project is hosting a prize of £300 for the full or partial decipherment of a shorthand letter presumed to have been written by Charles Dickens.
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New Beginnings for the Friends of the Dickens Project Board
The Friends of the Dickens Project Board has recently elected a new President, who will begin his term at this year’s Dickens Universe in July. Meet both the current President, JoAnna Rottke, as well as the incoming President, Mike Stern, in this article.
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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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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.