Friends of the UNCG Libraries

Wednesday, March 28, 6:30 p.m. (reception) 8:30 p.m. (program) - Friends of the UNCG Libraries Annual Dinner - A Celebration of Blues Music with Bill Ferris and Logie Meachum . Elliott University Center. Call the UNCG Box Office at 336-334-4849 for tickets. Fee. Exhibit (through April 2): “What They Were Wearing While They Were Reading,” Jackson Library 1st Floor. Exhibit (through March 31): "Windows to the World: The Immortal Works of Charles Dickens." Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library, 2nd Floor. Wednesday, March 21, 3:30 pm-- “Dickens, Our Contemporary,” presented by Professor Eileen Gillooly, Associate Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, sponsored by the Atlantic World Research Network, Hodges Special Collections Reading Room, Jackson Library. Free.

“Dickens, Our Contemporary”—Wednesday, March 21, 3:30 p.m., Hodges Special Collections Reading Room, Jackson Library 2nd Floor Professor Eileen Gillooly, Associate Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Professor Gillooly will discuss Dickens’s continuing transatlantic, trans-cultural, and trans-historical appeal, which, like Shakespeare’s, has much to do with the essentially dramatic quality of his imagination. She will consider the ethical and therapeutic power of role-playing for Dickens, for his characters, and for the reader in some scenes from his novels. Eileen Gillooly specializes in 19th-century British literature and culture; gender and psychoanalytic studies; 19th-century moral psychology; and 19th-century British colonial literature and culture. She is the author of Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (University of Chicago Press, 1999)—which was awarded the Perkins Prize by the International Society ...

The University Libraries and Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at UNCG welcome Matthew Pearl to Greensboro to participate in A Dickens of a Celebration commemorating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. Pearl’s first three novels, The Dante Club , The Poe Shadow , and The Last Dickens were New York Times bestsellers, have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have over one million copies in print combined. Critics have likened Pearl to E. L. Doctorow, and described him as “at the very forefront of contemporary novelists.” Reviews have proclaimed his writing as a "franchise on the cusp of mystery, literature and historical fiction" (Janet Maslin, “CBS Sunday Morning”), and said that Matthew is “a young author worth following,” adding “one can’t wait to see what he’ll do next.” The author will speak and sign copies of his books at 7 p.m. in the Virginia Dare Room in the Alumni House on the UNCG campus. The event is free and open to the public. In The Las...

Note that in order to accommodate more guests, the lecture has been moved to the Jackson Library Reading Room on the first floor of the building, rather than the Hodges Reading Room on the second floor.

The Freshman Seminar Program at UNCG is pleased to sponsor Charles Dickens: 200 Years of being "The Inimitable" by Dr. Elliot Engel on Tuesday, February 21 at 3 p.m. in Jackson Library on the UNCG campus. With the program, Dr. Elliot Engel brings to life the extraordinary genius of the man many critics recognize as the greatest novelist in our language. Using anecdotes, analysis, and large doses of humor, Professor Engel will reveal Dickens' fascinating business acumen that was every bit as creative as his literary imagination. The program is free and open to all, but seating is limited. Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, Dr. Engel now lives in Raleigh, where he has taught at the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State University, and Duke University. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at UCLA. While at UCLA he won that university’s Outstanding Teacher Award. Dr. Engel has written ten books published in England, Japan, and the United St...

Matthew Pearl’s first three novels, The Dante Club , The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens have been translated into more than thirty languages and have more than one million copies in print combined. Because of his authorship of The Last Dickens about the publication of The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Pearl's appearance is made in conjunction with UNCG's “A Dickens of a Celebration.” The appearance is sponsored by the University Libraries and the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at UNCG. Critics have likened Pearl to E. L. Doctorow, and he has been described as “at the very forefront of contemporary novelists” (Caleb Carr), “sparkling with erudition” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times), and “the shining star of literary fiction” (Dan Brown). With his new novel THE TECHNOLOGISTS, Pearl expands his repertoire to bring the same suspense to nineteenth-century science that he did to three of literary history’s greatest mysteries. In nineteenth-century Boston, a war exists between...

Charles Dickens was born in 1812. UNCG is celebrating the bicentennial of his birth with a series of programs sponsored by the University Libraries, the English Department, the Freshman Seminar Program, the Atlantic World Research Network, the Friends of the UNCG Libraries, the Greensboro Public Library and others. Books by and about Dickens abound, with more than 900 titles in the UNCG library catalog alone. Some of these are highlighted at the GRAB A BOOK display near the Circulation Desk in Jackson Library during Feburary , and may be checked out. In addition to his own work, there are numerous biographies, books of criticism, and studies of Dickens on subjects ranging from criminology and prisons to psychology, history, travel, theatre, cinema, journalism, and parent-child relations. We invite you to choose from among these selections and others in our book collection, and visit "Windows to the World: The Immortal Works of Charles Dickens," now on exhibit in the Hodges...

UNCG's celebration of the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens opens with "Windows to the World: The Immortal Works of Charles Dickens " now on exhibit in the Hodges Reading Room on the second floor of Jackson Library through March 30. Exhibited are a number of items from the Special Collections in Jackson Library, as well as items from local collectors. Browse a catalog of the exhibit here . "A Dickens of a Celebration" will continue with a series of programs sponsored by the University Libraries, the English Department, the Freshman Seminar Program, the Atlantic World Research Network, the Friends of the UNCG Libraries, the Greensboro Public Library and others. For a schedule of events, including visits by novelist Matthew Pearl and scholars Eliot Engel and Eileen Gillooly, as well as a birthday party, a book discussion and films at the Greensboro Public Library, see http://tinyurl.com/DickensUNCG or http://www.uncgfol.blogspot.com/2012/01/dickens-of-celebration...

The year 2012 marks the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. UNCG will mark the occasion with a series of events sponsored by the University Libraries, the English Department, the Freshman Seminar Program, the Atlantic World Research Network, the Greensboro Public Library and others. As of January 3, these are the events scheduled. Follow this blog to learn about other events as they are scheduled. Events at UNCG Exhibit of Charles Dickens Collection Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library 2nd Floor 9 a.m.—5 p.m. Monday-Friday, January 23—March 30, 2012 Grab a Book by Dickens display Jackson Library, First Floor February 2012 Friends of the UNCG Libraries book discussion of Great Expectations , led by Hepsie Roskelly, of the UNCG English Department Monday, February 6 at 4 p.m. Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library Dickens's 200th Birthday Party/favorite readings Tuesday, Feb. 7, from 2-4 p.m. Cake and libations throughout Brief readings beginning at about 3, followed by a toast to Dicken...