Katie Bell
The Haunting of "Bleak House"
Talk given for the Charles Dickens Museum’s opening of the special exhibition, “To Be Read at Dusk.” Dickens’s opinions on the...
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Notions in the Nineteenth
Katie Bell: Victorianist, Dickensian Researcher and Educator
My work on how Charles Dickens's writing influenced the repudiated outsider Joe Christmas of William Faulkner's Light in August can be seen in Dickens After Dickens.
“Dickens and Faulkner: Saving Joe Christmas.” Dickens After Dickens, ed. Emily Bell. York: White Rose University Press. pp 57-81.
I am an academic specializing in the life and works of Charles Dickens. My areas of study also include other members of the Dickens household, Victorian culture, and writers working within the Southern Gothic genre of American fiction. I co-edit the Dickens Society Blog and am happy to take submissions from prospective authors. I currently assist the Charles Dickens Museum of London in curatorial research and am available for consultation and speaking engagements on Dickens or other aspects of the long nineteenth century. I work in public education teaching an overview American Literature course.
It is my aim to make this an open-access forum of my writing on nineteenth-century history, culture, and literature. Should you choose to use my work in any way, please credit this site.
B.A. English, Georgia State Univ.
M.A. Victorian Studies, University of Leicester
PhD English Literature: “The Diaspora of Dickens: Charles Dickens and Writers of the American South.” https://lra.le.ac.uk/handle/2381/45036,
University of Leicester
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