Dickens Universe 2026

Helena Michie, a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, teaches Victorian literature and feminist theory at Rice University. Author of five books on Victorian studies and gender, including the award-winning Love Among the Archives, she is currently developin... Read More →

Miriam Margolyes is an award‑winning actress and memoirist known for her vivid character work on stage and screen, including her role as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films. A longtime friend of the Dickens Project, she has performed and recorded numerous Dickensian characters and brought Victorian literature to audiences worldwide... Read More →

Rebecca Stern is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She is working on her second monograph, Forming: Deep Time and Aesthetic Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain... Read More →