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Dickens Journals Online (DJO): Editorial Advisory Board
Dr Catherine Waters
MA
(Hons)
DipEd
(Macq),
PhD
(Syd)
Senior Lecturer in English
University of New England, Australia
Cathy Waters joined the Department at UNE in 1990 and her teaching has been concentrated in the areas of Romantic, Victorian and Modern Literature, feminist literary theory and Women's and Gender Studies. Her research interests lie in the field of Victorian Studies. She has published on Dickens and is particularly interested in nineteenth-century fiction and periodical writing. Her current research concerns the representation of commodities in Dickens's journal Household Words. In 1997, she published Dickens and the Politics of the Family (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Cathy is currently Academic Coordinator of the School's offshore programs and Managing Editor of the Australasian Victorian Studies Journal.
Source: http://www.une.edu.au/ect/staff/cwaters.php (external link) [accessed 5 April 2007]
Dr Leon Litvack
Reader in Victorian Studies; Head of Undergraduate Teaching
Queen's University, Belfast
Leon teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and his current research focuses on Dickens, as well as on cultural studies and post-colonial theory. He has authored John Mason Neale and the Quest for Sobornost (1994), Literatures of the Nineteenth Century: Romanticism to Victorianism (1996), Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son: An Annotated Bibliography (1999) and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century: Regional Identity (2000). He has done work on Dickens for BBC radio and television, and is a Trustee of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. He is currently completing The Complete Critical Guide to Charles Dickens for Routledge, and is working on the Clarendon edition of Our Mutual Friend.
Source: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/Staff/StaffProfile/ (external link) [accessed 5 April 2007]
Professor Toru Sasaki
Department of English
Faculty of Letters
Kyoto University
Kyoto 606-8501 JAPAN
A native of Osaka, Japan, Professor Sasaki was educated at Kyoto and New York universities and is associate professor of English literature at Kyoto. He is widely published, especially in the area of criticism of Victorian fiction, and is a frequent presenter at international conferences featuring the work of Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens. He is also an expert on novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and has edited John Marchmont's Legacy for Oxford World's Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Source: http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/eibeibun/index_English.html (external link) [Accessed 5 April 2007]
Dr Tony Williams
Research Fellow
School of Humanities
University of Buckingham
Buckingham MK18 1EG
Dr Williams taught English in secondary schools from 1969 to 1997 when he took early retirement. From 1999 to 2006 he was Joint General Secretary of The International Dickens Fellowship and a Trustee of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. He is Associate Editor of The Dickensian and organises the London programme of events for the Dickens Fellowship, as well as being a frequent speaker on Dickensian topics both in the UK and overseas. He is currently a member of the group planning the programme for the celebrations in 2012 of the bicentenary of Dickens’s birth.
Email: tony.williams@buckingham.ac.uk
Dr Paul Schlicke
School of Language and Literature
Taylor Building
King's College
University of Aberdeen
Old Aberdeen AB24 2UB
Paul Schlicke has been Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen since 1989. Born in the United States, he took his BA from Stanford University, and his PhD from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a National Defense Education Act Fellow. A distinguished Victorianist, he has published extensively on Dickens: general editor of the Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens (1999), author of Dickens and Popular Entertainment (1985), compiler of the Dickens entry for the 3rd edition of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (1999) and co-compiler of The Old Curiosity Shop: An Annotated Bibliography (1988). He has edited Hard Times (1989) and Nicholas Nickleby (1990) for World's Classics, The Old Curiosity Shop (1995) for Everyman, and The Pickwick Papers for British Heritage Database (2002), and published numerous articles in the Dickensian, Dickens Quarterly, Studies in English Literature and Dickens Studies Annual. He has just completed the editing of the Clarendon edition of Sketches by Boz, using the original periodical versions of the sketches, which have never before been reprinted. He is also a past President of the international Dickens Fellowship (2003-2005), of the Dickens Society of America (1994) and is currently Chairman of the trustees of the Charles Dickens Museum.
Source: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~enl017/pscv.htm (external link) [Accessed 5 April 2007]
Professor David ParoissienProfessorial Research Fellow
School of Humanities
University of Buckingham
Buckingham MK17 1EG
Professor David Paroissien is a distinguished 19th-Century scholar, with degrees from the Universities of Hull, New Mexico and California. He spent the majority of his career at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he taught from 1968 to 2001. Since 1983, he has worked tirelessly, and generously, as editor of Dickens Quarterly (the US equivalent of The Dickensian), and since 1997 has been general editor, with Susan Shatto, of the much-admired Companion series of monographs, contextualising and annotating each of Dickens's major works in unparalleled detail. He lives in Oxford - where he maintains good links with Trinity College, having directed the UMass summer program there during the 1990s - and is writing and editing more vigorously than ever, with various books and articles pending, including, for Blackwell, The Companion to Dickens (2007).
Email: david.paroissien@buckingham.ac.uk
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