The Dickens Project at LSU

Drum roll . . . LSU's grad students going to the 2019 Dickens Universe are Christie Cognevich and Molly Porter. Congratulations! And, yes, this year's book is _Barnaby Rudge_. See you in Santa Cruz!

Congrats to Gayle Fallon and Liz Wells, our brilliant 2018 graduate student winners of the "Dickens Project at LSU" essay prizes. This means they have been chosen to represent LSU at the 2018 Dickens Universe!

Congratulations to Eliza Urban and Leah Powell, our LSU graduate student delegates to the 2017 Dickens Universe!

Looks like I forgot to post the amazing Dickens Project at LSU baskets lucky donors won at the Louisiana Book Festivals in 2018 and 2017.

Meet Gayle Fallon and Liz Wells, our brilliant graduate students who will attend the Dickens Universe in July 2018 to study LITTLE DORRIT. Congratulations, Gayle and Liz! And thanks to all our supporters. We couldn't do this without you.

Congratulations to Leah Powell and Eliza Urban, our brilliant LSU PhD students who will be attending the Dickens Universe this August!

Don't forget the Louisiana Book Festival Saturday, October 29, 2016 in downtown Baton Rouge! We'll be there from 10-4 with this year's Basket full of Poe, Mary Shelley, a Tolstoy Voodoo Charm, a raven, tea, chocolates, a Frankenstein doggy chew toy--and two tickets to the Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre's Nutcracker! All yours, plus the chance to donate to a very good cause, while telling us about all your favorite spooky Halloween literature. Enjoy!

We'll be back at the Louisiana Book Festival again this year on Saturday, October 29, from 10:00 to 4:00. So come downtown and hang out with us at the English Department table! We'll talk about Dickens, Austen, Poe, Morrison--whatever your literary longings! We'll have a Halloween-themed basket this year for our drawing, and you know you want a little raven in your life. All the donations go to help send our graduate students to the Dickens Universe next August in Santa Cruz. Enjoy! http://www.louisianabookfestival.org/

Louisiana Book Festival

Meet Mary Pappalardo and Stacey Amo, our brilliant graduate student delegates to the 2016 Dickens Universe. Thanks to our generous donors (and to LSU’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, of course!), we are able to send both to benefit from this exciting opportunity. Congratulations to Stacey and Mary!

We're delighted to announce our 2016 grad student essay winners: Mary Pappalardo and Stacey Amo!

We hope to find funds to send both these brilliant PhD students to this summer's Dickens Universe to study the novel Dombey and Son. You can help through the LSU Foundation website. Go to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and write "Special Literary Projects Fund" in in the Comments field. We can't do it without your support. Many, many thanks! https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1585/social.aspx?sid=1585&gid=1&pgid=683.

Humanities & Social Sciences

Another great year at the Dickens Universe!

Congratulations to Ph.D students Helana Brigman and Caleb Doan, whose award-winning essays mean they are selected to attend the 2015 Dickens Universe! Check out the fabulous line-up of keynote speakers, which includes our own Inimitable, Professor Elsie Michie, currently Chair of the LSU Department of English. http://dickens.ucsc.edu/conferences/index.html

Conferences The Dickens Project sponsors scholarly conferences, institutes, and public presentations throughout the year. Chief among these is a week-long gathering known as the Dickens Universe. Held every year at the beginning of August on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus, the Dickens Universe brings togeth…