I’m Iain Crawford, Faculty Director of Undergraduate Research and Associate Professor of English at UD. This is a blog about the Dickens Universe written by three students from the University of Delaware who will be attending it this summer. I’ve asked them to write in response to a series of prompts that I’ll paste in… Read more

About a week and a half from the conference, and after a trip to LA to visit an old friend, I am finally home happily taking some time to reflect on my experiences. My experience at the Dickens Universe this summer was one I will treasure forever. It was an exercise in breaking out of… Read more

Under an almost full moon we sat in the dry grass between the Cowell Apartment Community Room and fields that look off over the sea. Earlier that day we went to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. We played mini golf and rode the Giant Dipper. Now we were sitting beneath the glow of the wooden… Read more