The Dickens Project

and

Louisiana State University

LSU's English Department has recently joined The Dickens Project, a prestigious invitation-only scholarly consortium devoted to the study of nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Founded in 1981 and headquartered at the University of California at Santa Cruz, the strictly limited membership includes Yale, Princeton, Cornell, MIT, Rice, Columbia, UCLA, Harvard, Rutgers, CUNY, Stanford, University of Texas at Austin, UC-Berkeley, Vanderbilt, University of Exeter, University of London, University of Melbourne, Hebrew University of Jerusalem–and now LSU!

The Dickens Universe

During the first week of August, the Dickens Universe brings together scholars, graduate students, high school teachers, Elderhostel students, and members of the general public to UC Santa Cruz for a week of study and Dickensian conviviality. Focusing on a single Dickens novel, the program includes formal lectures by internationally distinguished scholars, seminars, small discussion groups, films, performances, exhibits, and a variety of informal social activities. Graduate students who attend the Universe participate in a week-long graduate seminar with two distinguished nineteenth-century scholars. Students also teach courses for non-graduate student participants and enroll in a selection of professional workshops. The Universe concludes each year with a scholarly conference on a topic related to issues raised by the novel or novels under discussion through the week.

As a member institution, LSU plans to send two graduate students and a faculty member to the annual Dickens Universe, starting in 2008.

Please Help

Travel is expensive. Please help our students, faculty, and the entire department take advantage of this opportunity and others like it by making a donation to the
LSU Foundation/Special Literary Projects Fund

Mail check to:

Professor Sharon Weltman
Louisiana State University
Department of English
260 Allen Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5001

Questions? Call Professor Weltman at 225-578-2857 or email.

For details about the upcoming Dickens Universe, please follow this link to the Dickens Project Website:
http://dickens.ucsc.edu/index.html

Contacts:

Dan Novak: dnovak@lsu.edu

Elsie Michie: enmich@lsu.edu

Sharon Aronofsky Weltman: enwelt@lsu.edu