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Sunday, July 14
 

7:45pm PDT

Lecture: Carolyn Williams (Rutgers University) "Idiot Protagonism"
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Carolyn Williams

Professor of English, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

Sunday July 14, 2019 7:45pm - 9:00pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
  Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk
 
Monday, July 15
 

10:00am PDT

Lecture: Sophia Hsu (Lehman College, CUNY) "Barnaby's Crowds"
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Sophia Hsu

Assistant Professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York
Bronx, NY

Monday July 15, 2019 10:00am - 11:15am PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
  Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk

4:00pm PDT

Talk: Catherine Robson (New York University) "Panic on the Streets of London: Barnaby Rudge's Gordon Riots and Civic Unrest in the Capital"
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Catherine Robson

Professor of English, New York University
New York City, NY

Monday July 15, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
  Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk

7:45pm PDT

Lecture: Galia Benziman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "Talking Birds, Talking to Birds: Transcending the Child in Barnaby Rudge"
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Galia Benziman

Associate Professor of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel

Monday July 15, 2019 7:45pm - 9:00pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
  Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk
 
Tuesday, July 16
 

10:00am PDT

Herbert Furse Memorial Lecture: Jonathan Grossman (UC Los Angeles) "Barnaby's Standard"
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Jonathan Grossman

Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan H. Grossman is a professor at UCLA, where he regularly enjoys teaching Dickens. In the past, at Dickens Universe he has given talks on A Tale of Two Cities, Pickwick¸ and Great Expectations. His recent work on Dickens can be found in Novel, Victorian Studies, and Critical... Read More →

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Friends of the Dickens Project

Friends of the Dickens Project
Through their Board of Directors, the Friends of the Dickens Project support the many activities of the Project, especially the Dickens Universe conference. The Friends help to make the Universe a friendly, warm, and welcoming event where people of different ages and backgrounds come together to study and enjoy V... Read More →

Tuesday July 16, 2019 10:00am - 11:15am PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
  Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk

4:00pm PDT

Talk: Teresa Mangum (University of Iowa) "Raving (by and about) Ravens"
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Teresa Mangum

Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and English and Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa
Teresa Mangum is Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and English and Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa. She is fascinated by past Victorian animals and future careers for humanities PHDs, as part of a Mellon Humanities... Read More →

Tuesday July 16, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
  Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk

7:45pm PDT

Lecture: Susan Cook (Southern New Hampshire University) "Barnaby Rudge: True Crime Style"
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Susan Cook

Associate Professor of English, Southern New Hampshire University
Susan Cook is an associate professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University. She started attending the Dickens Universe as a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara. Her research interests include nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, crime literature, and gender... Read More →

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Friends of the Dickens Project

Friends of the Dickens Project
Through their Board of Directors, the Friends of the Dickens Project support the many activities of the Project, especially the Dickens Universe conference. The Friends help to make the Universe a friendly, warm, and welcoming event where people of different ages and backgrounds come together to study and enjoy V... Read More →

Tuesday July 16, 2019 7:45pm - 9:00pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
  Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk
 
Wednesday, July 17
 

10:00am PDT

Lecture: Devin Griffiths (University of Southern California) "Gripping the Past"
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Devin Griffiths

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California
Devin Griffiths is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. In his previous life, he worked as a molecular biologist, and now his research examines the intersection of intellectual history and scientific literature, with... Read More →

Wednesday July 17, 2019 10:00am - 11:15am PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
  Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk

4:00pm PDT

Talk: John O. Jordan (The Dickens Project) "Dickens and the Radicals"
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John O. Jordan

Research Professor | Co-Director of the Dickens Project, UC Santa Cruz
John Jordan is a research professor of literature at the University of California Santa Cruz and the director of the Dickens project. His primary research interests include Victorian literature and culture, Charles Dickens and narrative theory. John is the author of Supposing Bleak... Read More →

Wednesday July 17, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
  Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk
 
Thursday, July 18
 

10:00am PDT

Lecture: Michael C. Cohen (UC Los Angeles) "Quoting the Ravens"
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Michael Cohen

Associate Professor of English, UC Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Thursday July 18, 2019 10:00am - 11:15am PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
  Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk

4:00pm PDT

Panel: Alicia Mireles Christoff (Amherst College), Ronjaunee Chatterjee (Conordia University), and Amy R. Wong (Dominican University of California) "Race and/in Victorian Studies"
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Alicia Mireles Christoff

Assistant Professor of English, Amherst College
Alicia Mireles Christoff is Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College. Her first book, Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in December 2019. Her articles and essays have appeared in NOVEL, VLC, Los Angeles... Read More →
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Ronjaunee Chatterjee

Assistant Professor of English, Concordia University
Ronjaunee Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Concordia University (Montreal), where she teaches classes in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Feminist and Queer Theory. Her current book project, Thinking Singularity: Gender, Form, and Difference in... Read More →
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Amy Wong

Associate Professor of English, Chair of Literature, Language, and Humanities, Dominican University of California
Amy R. Wong is Assistant Professor of English at Dominican University of California. Her research and teaching areas include Victorian literature, media theory, and critical race studies. She is working on a book on how the development of mass print media prompted new attention to... Read More →

Thursday July 18, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
  Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk
 
Friday, July 19
 

10:00am PDT

Lecture: Adam Abraham (Virginia Commonwealth University) "The History of Barnaby Rudge; or, He Shouldn't Have Done It"
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Adam Abraham

Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Commonwealth University
Adam Abraham is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University. His new book, Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel: Imitation, Parody, Aftertext, will be published by Cambridge University Press in September. He has attended the Dickens Universe six times, and he has been responsible/irresponsible... Read More →

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Friends of the Dickens Project
Through their Board of Directors, the Friends of the Dickens Project support the many activities of the Project, especially the Dickens Universe conference. The Friends help to make the Universe a friendly, warm, and welcoming event where people of different ages and backgrounds come together to study and enjoy V... Read More →

Friday July 19, 2019 10:00am - 11:15am PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
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