Past Programs

Dickens Day of Writing

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

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)

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