Building a Common Vocabulary

MORNING SESSION 1

Textual Discussion Great Expectations chapters 1-6; activity: the Global “Covers” of Great Expectations

Chapter Discussion: Linda Hutcheon, ch. 1 “Beginning to Theorize Adaptation” of A Theory of Adaptation, New York: Routledge, 2013. 1-32.

MORNING SESSION 2

Article Discussion: John Jordan and Nirshan Perera, “Introduction” to Global Dickens, London and New York: Routledge, 2012: xv-xxix.

Article Discussion: Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Alicia Mireles Christoff, Amy R. Wong. “Undisciplining Victorian Studies.” Victorian Studies 62.3, Spring 2020, 369-391.

Optional: Article Discussion: Linda Hutcheon and Gary R. Bortolotti, “On the Origin of Adaptations: Rethinking Fidelity Discourse and ‘Success’ Biologically,” New Literary History, 38.3, 2007, 443-458.

EVENING

Film Screening(s): The Boy and the Convict (1909), directed by Dave Aylott (silent 12-minute film short); Great Expectations (1917), directed by Robert G. Vignola and Paul West, a lost silent film of which stills survive. Great Expectations (1946), directed by David Lean.

What to Look for When Looking at Film

MORNING SESSION 1

Textual Discussion Great Expectations chapters 7-12

Film Discussion of the previous day’s viewing

MORNING SESSION 2

Article Discussion: Jørgen Bruhn, “Dialogizing Adaptation Studies: From a One-Way Transport to a Dialogic Two-Way Process” in Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, 69-88.

Chapter Discussion: Mary Hammond, “Great Expectations in the New Media Age, 1900-1945,” in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations: A Cultural Life, 1860-2012, London and New York: Routledge, 2016. 79-112.

Chapter Discussion: Christina Sharpe. Chapter 1 “The Wake” in In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 1-24.

Optional: Chapter Discussion: Robert Stam, “Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Adaptation,” in Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 1-30

EVENING

Film Screening: 孤星血淚 (An Orphan’s Tragedy) (1955), directed by Chu Kei (Hong Kong adaptation)

Dickens in South LA, Dickens in Hong Kong

MORNING SESSION 1

Textual Discussion: Great Expectations, Chapters 13-19

Film Discussion of the previous day’s viewing

High School Pedagogy Talk: Dr. Jaqueline Barrios Dear Charles Dickens, Love South LA (forthcoming)

MORNING SESSION 2

Chapter Discussion: Regenia Gagnier, “Dickens’s Global Circulation,” in The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 723-738.

Article Discussion: Ting Guo, “Dickens on the Chinese Screen.” Literature Compass 8.10, 2011. 795-810.

Context Chapter: Lee Vivian P. Y . “Remaking Cantonese film culture: Union and Sun Luen,” in The Other Side of Glamour: The Left-wing Studio Network in Hong Kong Cinema in the Cold War Era and Beyond, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 59-76.

“Undisciplining”

MORNING SESSION 1

Guest Lecture: “Undisciplining” with Dr. Amy Wong

MORNING SESSION 2

Chapter Discussion: Sukanya Banerjee. “The Victorians: Empire and the East” in Orientalism and Literature ed. Geoffrey P. Nash. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 82-100.

Article Discussion: Jessica Valdez. “Victorian Studies, Literature, and the Global Nineteenth Century.” Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 1.1, 2022, 37-42.

Article Discussion: Sukanya Banerjee, Ryan D. Fong, and Helena Michie. “Introduction: Widening the Nineteenth Century.” Victorian Literature and Culture 49.1, 2021, 1-26.

Adapting Dickens to Early 1900s Japan

MORNING SESSION 1

Guest Lecture: “Ishiguro” with Dr. Rae Greiner

Textual Discussion: Great Expectations, Chapters 20-26

MORNING SESSION 2

Book Discussion: When We Were Orphans

Article Discussion: Wai-chew Sim, “Aesthetic Innovation and Radical Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro’ s When We Were Orphans,” in British Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary, Amherst: Cambria Press, 2008. 329-350.

Article Discussion: Rafał Łyczkowski, “Charles Dickens and Colonial Expansionism ‘Obscured’ in When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro,” in Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre, 7.2. 17-26.

What is Postcolonialism?

MORNING SESSION 1

Textual Discussion Great Expectations, Chapters 27-33

MORNING SESSION 2

Chapter Discussion: Edward Said. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf, 1993. xi-xxviii and 62-80.

Article Discussion: Tim Dolin, “First Steps Toward a History of the Mid-Victorian Novel in Colonial Australia.” Australian Literary Studies 22, no. 3 (2006): 273–93.

Article Discussion: Thomas Leitch. “Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads.”Adaptation 1.1 (Winter 2008): 63-77.

Article Discussion: Sukanya Banerjee. “Transimperial.” Victorian Literature and Culture 46.3-4, 2018, 925-928.

EVENING

TV Viewing: Great Expectations, 2023 (Hulu) episode 1 (episodes 2-3 optional)

Havisham and Monsters

MORNING SESSION 1

Guest Lecture: “Havisham and Monsters” with Dr. Renée Fox

Textual Discussion Great Expectations, Chapters 34-40

MORNING SESSION 2

Article Discussion: Inkoo Kang, “Victoriana Drenched in Red Bull, in FX’s Great Expectations,” The New Yorker.

Chapter Discussion: Renée Fox. “Dickensian Zombies in Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend.” The Necromantics: Reanimations, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature. Columbus, OH: OSU Press, 2023. 79-111.

Chapter Discussion: Simon Gikandi. Chapter 2 “Through the Prism of Race: Black Subjects and English Identities” in Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 50-83.

EVENING

TV Viewing: Great Expectations, 2023 (Hulu) episodes 4-6

Blackness and Dickens + Project Check-In

MORNING SESSION 1

Textual Discussion Great Expectations, Chapters 40-46

MORNING SESSION 2

Chapter Discussion: Elaine Freedgood, “Realism, Fetishism, and Genocide: Negro Head Tobacco in and around Great Expectations,” in The Ideas of Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 81-110.

Chapter Discussion: Robert Stam, “Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogics of Adaptation.” Film Adaptation. Ed. James Naremore. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2000. 54-76.

Selected contemporary reviews of the BBC/Hulu adaptation

EVENING

Film Screening: Mr. Pip, 2012.

Undisciplining in the Secondary Classroom

MORNING SESSION 1

Guest Lecture: “Undisciplining in the Secondary Classroom” with Dr. Pearl Chaozon Bauer

Textual Discussion Great Expectations, Chapters 46-52

MORNING SESSION 2

Syllabi and Lesson Plan Discussion: “Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom” website

Article Discussion: Pearl Chaozon Bauer, Ryan D. Fong, Sophia Hsu, Adrian S. Wisnicki. “Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom.” Victorian Studies 64.2 (Winter 2002): 240-248.

Article Discussion: Danny Sexton. “Stranger in the Classroom: What Victorian Literature Says to Students of Color.” Victorian Studies 64.2 (Winter 2002): 249-253.

Article Discussion: Nirshan Perera. “How Tony Morrison Helps My High School Students Understand Dickens.” Victorian Studies 64.2 (Winter 2002): 270-275.

Article Discussion: Ankhi Mukherjee. “Missed encounters: repetition, rewriting and contemporary returns to Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations.” Contemporary Literature 46: 108-133.

EVENING

Film Screening: Selections from the eight hour Great Expectations: The Untold Story (1987)

MORNING SESSION

Book Discussion: Jack Maggs

Film Discussion: Selections from Great Expectations: The Untold Story

Article Discussion: Colette Selles. “Heritage in Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies 27: 63-75.

Article Discussion: Laura E. Savu. “The ‘crooked business’ of storytelling: authorship and cultural revisionism in Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs.” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 36: 127-163.

Article Discussion: Beverly Taylor. “Discovering new pasts: Victorian legacies in the postcolonial worlds of Jack Maggs and Mister Pip.” Victorian Studies 52: 95-105.

Optional Article Discussion: Jason Rudy. “Introduction” in Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 1-19.

MORNING SESSION 1

Textual Discussion Great Expectations, Chapters 52-59

MORNING SESSION 2

Article Discussion: Edgar Rosenberg, “Putting an End to Great Expectations,” in Great Expectations, New York: Norton. 491-527.

Article Discussion: Thomas Leitch, “Twelve Fallacies in Contemporary Adaptation Theory,” Criticism, 45.2, 2003, 149-171.

Discussion of Art (painting and photography) exhibitions:

 “Great Expectations” (2016) by Jenevieve Aken, a Nigerian photographer

Louise Weir (15 March 2018), a London-based artist

Brooke Shields’s Calvin Klein Jeans commercial, 1981

Dickens animated, South Park’s “Pip” (4.14) (2000).

Great Expectations–Animated Classic (1983).

Christian Lehmann, “Into the Dickens-Verse,” on Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse as an adaptation of Great Expectations.

EVENING

Film Screening: Fitoor, 2016.

Cinema in India

MORNING SESSION 1

Guest Lecture: “Cinema in India” with Dr. Sukanya Banerjee

Final Project: Participants begin workshopping their projects

MORNING SESSION 2

Film Discussion: Fitoor

Chapter Discussion: Marty Gould, “Global Cinema,” in The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Optional Chapter Discussion: Vivian Kao. “Adapting Improvement: Screen Afterlives of Nineteenth-Century Progress,” in Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 1-39.

Dickens on Stage

MORNING SESSION

Performance Discussion: Gupta’s Great Expectations

Guest Lecture: “Dickens on Stage” with Dr. Sharon Weltman

Article Discussion: Tony Williams, “Modern Stage Adaptations,” in Charles Dickens in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 59-66

Chapter Discussion: Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, “Adopting and Adapting Dickens since 1870: Stage, Film, Radio, Television,” in The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 738-755.

EVENING

Film Screening: Great Expectations (1998) dir. Alfonso Cuarón.

Singing and Dancing Dickens Guest

MORNING SESSION

Performance Viewing: Dominick Argento’s “Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night” with Odyssey Opera (2016)

Article Discussion: Johnson, Michael K. “Not Telling the Story the Way it Happened: Alfonso Cuarón’s Great Expectations.” Literature Film Quarterly 33: 62-78.

Article Discussion: Ana Moya and Gemma Lopez. “I’m a Wild Success: Postmodern Dickens/Victorian Cuarón.” Dickens Quarterly 25: 172-89.

FINAL PRESENTATIONS