Past Programs
NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes
2025 Great Expectations in the Global Imaginary
2019 Reimagining Jane Eyre and Great Expectations: Teaching Literature through Adaptations
2018 Why Literature Matters: Voices from Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
2016 Dickens: Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities
2014 Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page, Stage, and Screen
2014 Great Adaptations: Dickens in Literature and Film
2011 Great Adaptations: Teaching Dickens Through Literary and Cinematic Adaptations
2007 Adaptation and Revision: The Example of Great Expectations
2004 The Remaking of Charles Dickens: Crisis and Transformation
1997 Reading Bleak House: Charles Dickens and Serial Production
1995 Reading Our Mutual Friend: Charles Dickens and Serial Production
1988 Victorian Novels of Selfhood: Great Expectations and Jane Eyre
1985 Dickens Humanities Institute
1983 Dickens and the Fantastic
Dickens Day of Writing
2025 Santa Cruz, CA | Atlanta, GA | Cleveland, OH | San Mateo, CA
2024 Santa Cruz, CA | Atlanta, GA | Cleveland, OH | Dunwoody, GA | San Mateo, CA
2023 Santa Cruz, CA | Atlanta, GA | Cleveland, OH
2022 Santa Cruz, CA
LitLab
In partnership with the AP English teachers at the James A. Foshay Learning Center in South Los Angeles.
2024 Great Expectations
2023 A Tale of Two Cities
2022 Iola Leroy or, Shadows Uplifted
2021 Dear Iola, Love South LA (Iola Leroy or, Shadows Uplifted)
2020 LA Copperfield (David Copperfield)
2019 Barnaby Lab (Barnaby Rudge)
2018 Dorrit Lab (Little Dorrit)
2017 Middle Lab (Middlemarch)
2016 The House of Dombey (Dombey and Son)