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Faculty and Guest Speakers


Faculty attending the Dickens Universe
Faculty Institution Assignment Day & Time
Adam Abraham University of Miami Farce: "Curiosity Killed the Shop: A Dickensian Travesty" Thursday
7:45-8:45 PM
Murray Baumgarten UC Santa Cruz Dickens Project Co-Founder –
Galia Benziman Hebrew University of Jerusalem Lecture: "Seeing in the Dark: Realism, Objects, and Transitional Attachment" Wednesday
10:15-11:30 AM
Roundtable Friday
10:15-11:30 AM
John Bowen University of York
Logan Browning Rice University
Clark Cloyd The Paideia School Talk: "Teaching Dickens at the High School Level"
Ray Crosby Kern High School/California Baptist University Talk: "Teaching Dickens at the High School Level"
Huw Edwardes-Evans Rice University Lecture: "Curious Endings, Curious Beginnings: Close Reading with Project Endings" Thursday
10:15-11:30 AM
Roundtable Friday
10:15-11:30 AM
Renée Fox UC Santa Cruz Dickens Project Co-Director –
Fireside Chat Friday
3:30-4:30 PM
Aman Garcha Ohio State University Dickens Universe Organizer –
Jonathan Grossman UC Los Angeles Talk: "The Tragedy Tolled in Clock" Tuesday
4:00-5:00 PM
Nancy Henry University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Maha Jafri Sewanee, University of the South Lecture: "Curiouser and Curiouser: The Uncanny and the Size of Life" Tuesday
7:45-9:00 PM
Roundtable Friday
10:15-11:30 AM
John O. Jordan UC Santa Cruz Dickens Project Co-Founder and Co-Director –
Talk: "Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop" Wednesday
4:00-5:00 PM
Fireside Chat Friday
3:30-4:30 PM
David Kurnick Rutgers University
Teresa Mangum University of Iowa Lecture: "Curious Old Age in The Old Curiosity Shop" Sunday
7:45-9:00 PM
Roundtable Friday
10:15-11:30 AM
Tara Menon Harvard University Lecture: "Shop Talk" Monday
7:45-9:00 PM
Roundtable Friday
10:15-11:30 AM
Helena Michie Rice University Lecture: "Curious Endings, Curious Beginnings: Close Reading with Project Endings" Thursday
10:15-11:30 AM
Roundtable Friday
10:15-11:30 AM
Beth Newman Southern Methodist University
Daniel Novak University of Alabama Lecture: "'Magic Reel': Photography, Theatre, and Narrative in The Old Curiosity Shop" Monday
10:15-11:30 AM
Roundtable Friday
10:15-11:30 AM
Jacob Risinger Ohio State University Lecture: "Sure Enough" Tuesday
10:15-11:30 AM
Roundtable Friday
10:15-11:30 AM
Catherine Robson New York University
Jacob Romanow University of Texas, Austin
Jason Rudy University of Maryland
Brenda Sanfilippo UC Santa Cruz
Ana Schwartz University of Texas, Austin
Catherine Springer The Paideia School Talk: "Teaching Dickens at the High School Level"
Jeffrey Spear New York University
Jessica Valdez Louisiana State University
Robyn Warhol Ohio State University Lecture: "Curious Endings, Curious Beginnings: Close Reading with Project Endings" Thursday
10:15-11:30 AM
Roundtable Friday
10:15-11:30 AM
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman Texas Christian University
Carolyn Williams Rutgers University Talk: "How Melodrama Works" Monday
4:00-5:00 PM
Alex Woloch Stanford University