Category: The Dickens Project

Miriam Branch, a member of the Greater Riverside Area Dickens Fellowship, reflects on the “Barnaby Rudge” Reading Marathon with the high school senior AP English class from Foshay Learning Center.

The British author’s timeless storytelling is drawing fans to Auburn for Maine’s only reading group dedicated to him, the Pickwick Club.

In January, the seniors at NAI mounted a rare cultural event: a MiddleLab Festival and two performances of a full-length theatrical adaptation of Middlemarch. The seniors casted and crewed these evening shows presenting live theatrical scenes, custom-made period costumes and original choreography that brought the novel to life.

Our 2017 Giving Day goal is to establish a fund to assist with travel costs associated with attending any Dickens Project event. This fund will help ease the financial burden on future participants and enable them to take maximum advantage of our programming.

Each year following the Dickens Universe, the Dickens Project hosts a smaller conference during the winter. This year, the Dickens Project Winter Conference will be held at the University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, on February 23-25, 2017.

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

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

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.