Dickens in a Minute

The Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Little Dorrit

The Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Our Mutual Friend

The Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Barnaby Rudge

A Ph.D. candidate in English at UC Davis, Jennifer Tinonga-Valle’s research explores how designing, discussing and making craft items offers a distinctive type of participation with literary texts because it is linked with a still accessible legacy of craft practices and values in which authors like Emily Dickinson, Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë participated.

Jennifer Tinonga on Needlework in Victorian Novels

Melisa Klimaszewski on Dickens Today

Mark Celeste on Maritime Fiction

Professors Renee Fox and Murray Baumgarten introduce "Little Dorrit," a novel by Charles Dickens. Recorded on January 14, 2018 at the first meeting of the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club.

Renee Fox and Murray Baumgarten introduce "Little Dorrit"

UCSC History Professor Bruce Thompson discusses the historical context behind "Little Dorrit," a novel by Charles Dickens. Recorded on February 11, 2018 at the second meeting of the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club.

Bruce Thompson discusses the historical context behind "Little Dorrit"

Zoe Beenstock on Politics and Literature

Susan Zieger on Cigarette Cards

Pacific Collegiate School English teacher, Nirshan Perera, leads a  discussion on the colonial imagination, in "Little Dorrit," a novel by Charles Dickens. Recorded on March 11, 2018 during the third meeting of the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club.

Nirshan Perera leads a discussion on "Dickens and the World"

Cathy Cress, MSW, discusses the depiction of aging characters in "Little Dorrit," a novel by Charles Dickens. Recorded on April 8, 2018 during the fourth meeting of the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club.

Cathy Cress discusses aging characters in "Little Dorrit"

John Jordan explores Dickens's serial parts

Katie Brandt is a recent MA English literature graduate from San Francisco State University where her thesis research focused on the portrayal of alcoholism and addiction in Victorian realist novels. She attended the Dickens Universe for the first time in July 2017. Currently, Katie teaches English grammar and reading comprehension at ATS Institute of Technology, an accelerated nursing program in downtown Chicago.

Katie Brandt on Alcoholism and Addiction in Victorian Literature

Rebecca Ehrhardt is a Doctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California, where she works on 18th and 19th century British literature, narrative theory, and the philosophy of language. Her current project focuses on character and reference in 19th century poetry and prose.

Rebecca Ehrhardt on Free Indirect Discourse

Holly Simpson Fling is a PhD Candidate in the English Department at the University of Georgia, where she is studying Romantic and Victorian literature and working toward a Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate. She was one of the 2016 organizers for the British Women Writers conference, and during the spring of 2018 she will serve her third term in Oxford as a graduate assistant for the UGA at Oxford Program. Holly was a 2016 recipient of a Willson Center Graduate Student Research Award, which she used to further her dissertation research during her time in Oxford. In her dissertation, Holly traces Lewis Carroll’s looking-glass into Virginia Woolf’s work, and then she reads nineteenth-century women-written fiction through Woolf’s adaptation of the looking-glass to call attention to the dissolution of boundaries between time and space, and between subject and object. She also has a book chapter in Critical Insights: Harlem Renaissance (Salem Press, 2015).

Holly Fling on the Erosion of Temporal and Spacial Boundaries

Renee Fox, Co-Director of The Dickens Project, provides an introduction to "Our Mutual Friend," a novel by Charles Dickens. Recorded on September 9, 2018 during a meeting of the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club.

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Our Mutual Friend, An Introduction to the Novel with Renee Fox

Wendy Martyna of the Sociology department at UCSC leads a discussion on Book III. 
Recorded on November 11, 2018, during a meeting of the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club.

Our Mutual Friend, Book III with Wendy Martyna

Our Mutual Friend, A Conclusion with Murray Baumgarten

John Jordan, Director of The Dickens Project, provides an introduction to "Barnaby Rudge," a novel by Charles Dickens. Recorded on February 10, 2019, during a meeting of the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club.

John Jordan Introduces Barnaby Rudge

Scenes from Hard Times, Performed by The Dickens Players

Scenes from Great Expectations, Performed by The Dickens Players

Bruce Thompson, instructor of history and literature at UCSC, contextualizes the Gordon Riots that appear throughout chapters XVIII-XXXIII.

The History of the Gordon Riots with Bruce Thompson

Tara Thomas, a PhD candidate studying Victorian Literature at UCSC, discusses mothers and sons in Dickens.

Mothers and Sons in Barnaby Rudge with Tara Thomas

Brian Malone, an instructor at De Anza College, explores the Gordon Riots and offers 13 ways to represent a mob.

13 ways of looking at a mob with Brian Malone

Featuring guest speakers Kristin Brunk (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Michael Cohen (UC Los Angeles), Carla Freccero (UC Santa Cruz) and John MacNeill Miller (Allegheny College).

Animal Studies Panel Discussion

Tara Thomas led a discussion of David Copperfield, Chapters 41-50 as part of the Pickwick Club. This recording is from their meeting on February 23, 2020.

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