Applications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014</b>, we’ll examine <i>Oliver Twist </i>(1837-1839) and <i>Great Expectations</i> (1860-1861), along with a range of important film, television, and stage adaptations from 1837 to 2012. The seminar will also ask more broadly how adaptations and performances interpret their source texts and affect their meaning. Placing different scholarly, critical, and theoretical traditions of performance, adaptation, literature, music, theater, and film in conversation with one another will yield important new insights. Dickens—as an author who is inherently theatrical and is more frequently adapted than any other—is an ideal vehicle to consider these issues. Sixteen college and university teachers will read and discuss “performing Dickens” as they work on their own related research projects, with a <b>stipend of</b> <b>$3,300.00</b>. Two of these sixteen spots are available for graduate students. The applications are due by <b>March 4, 2014. </b>
