Speakers

Professor Holly Furneaux

Holly Furneaux is Professor of English at Cardiff University. Alongside her research on soldiers’ experience in the Crimean War, Professor Furneaux works in Dickens studies, writing articles on queer Dickens fan fiction and on Dickens’s antisocial women. Professor Furneaux is an adviser for the BBC’s Dickensian (on screen from Dec 2015) and a co-organiser of the annual Dickens Day in London.

She is also author of Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Military Men of Feeling: Emotion, Touch and Masculinity in the Crimean War (Oxford University Press, 2016). She is co-editor, with Sally Ledger, of Dickens in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and editor of John Forster’s Life of Dickens (Sterling, 2011).

Professor Michael Slater MBE

Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies. He is a former Editor of The Dickensian, and a Past President both of the Dickens Fellowship and of the Dickens Society of America. He is also Hon. Academic Adviser to the Trustees of the Charles Dickens Museum. Among his published works are Dickens and Women (1983), Charles Dickens (2009), and an edition for Penguin Classics of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (2003). He is currently working on an edition of Dickens’s later uncollected short fiction for OUP’s Clarendon Dickens.

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