If you missed the paper (either thanks to the vast array of parallel panels, or just not being able to make the conference), fear not. You can read the full story in my book, and even get a preview of it in my forthcoming article in VII (which will be out this fall).

It's October so the spooky season has officially begun, and just in time! Next Saturday in London Dickens Day is all about Dickens and the Gothic. Join us! ies.sas.ac.uk/events/dickens…

Spent the morning working through the first article I am helping to prepare for publication in my new role as Assistant Editor for Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal.

Elizabeth Grimshaw ( Buckingham English ) presents "Dickens and the Directress: Women and Dickens on Stage, 1838-1868" at Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century (II) (Universitat de València, 18-20 October 2023), organized by LAP Research Group youtu.be/l19OTd5G1pY?si…

I'm in London for the first Dickens Seminar of term. John Drew is taking the floor tonight to discuss the SEVEN possible endings for Great Expectations.

I am super excited to be program chair for this coming year's South Central Renaissance Conference and to share with you our CFP. The conference will take place in St. Louis. and will be held, for the first time, in coordination with AnnualSMRS. Please do send in your abstracts!

The Michaelmas term card is now out, so I am delighted to share that I have been invited to address the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society this term. I will be talking about the different ways Lewis engaged with and was haunted by (in a good way) Shakespeare throughout his life.

Pete Orford gets us underway at Dickens Day 2024 Senate House Library

And off we go! ⁦Pete Orford⁩ & Dr Claire Wood ⁦The Dickens Code⁩ are opening #DickensDay! Ready for the Gothic! 👻⁦Dickens Day UK⁩

What a day. #Dickensday was awesome as ever. Where to begin...well we had a fantastic exhibition courtest of Senate House Library that was on display through the day

👻🧐Dr Jen Baker 🧐👻 @amy_coles_ This was followed by Jeremy Parrott Jeremy Parrott discussing Frankenstein's echoes in David Copperfield and that monstrous Uriah Heep

I had a great time presenting at Dickens Day today, and heard so many fascinating papers which have me full of ideas!

An exciting start to the week! I just signed and returned my contract to Lexington Press for my first book "The Eight Archetypes of the Double in Culture and Literature"! Now I just have to write it...

Delighted to share that my article "Hamlet in Narnia: The Prince and the Poem in Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia" is now out in Mythlore. Quick preview in the abstract below, but the good news is Mythlore is open access so you can read the whole piece here: dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol43…

I may need to get a tour t-shirt made up for Dickens Fellowship - four talks coming up in the next few months, starting with the Aberdeen branch today!

Thrilled to have survived and passed my viva with minor corrections! After three long years I can officially call myself Dr Coles! #PhDone

Looking forward to speaking at this C.S. Lewis conference over in Belfast in a week's time, I'll be giving a paper entitled "New Mo(u)rnings in Narnia" with an emphasis on The Last Battle.

Yesterday we had Jo M-C give her talk to our postgraduates on Goblins in The Chimes. Now it's my turn: I'll be talking to our Dickens students tonight on Dickens’s experience of writing in Italy (including, of course, The Chimes!)

I know, I know..."don't judge a book by its cover"...but nonetheless: look at this! It's beautiful. Can't wait to see the physical copy in Spring next year.

Saw this in person this summer at Magdalen, and it was fantastic. So glad to see that now everyone can get a flavour of how great it was via this online version of the exhibit.