PAUL SCHLICKE

School of Language and Literature, Taylor Building, King's College,

University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen AB24 2UB Scotland

phone 01224 272642 fax 01224 272624

e-mail <mailto:p.schlicke@abdn.ac.uk>

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~enl017/pscv.htm

I am retired from the University of Aberdeen, where I taught English as Lecturer (1971-89) and as Senior Lecturer (1989-2009). I was born in the United States and grew up in Spokane, Washington. I took my BA from Stanford University, where I was captain of the University track and field team, and my PhD from the University of California, San Diego, where I was a National Defense Education Act Fellow.

I am general editor of the Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens (1999), author of Dickens and Popular Entertainment (1985), compiler of the Dickens entry for the 3rd edition of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (1999) and co-compiler of The Old Curiosity Shop: An Annotated Bibliography (1988). I have edited Hard Times (1989) and Nicholas Nickleby (1990) for World's Classics, The Old Curiosity Shop (1995) for Everyman, and The Pickwick Papers for British Heritage Database (2002). I have published articles and reviews on Dickens and other nineteenth-century topics, including “Revisions to Sketches by Boz” (Dickensian 101 (2005), 29-38), “The Impact of Sketches by Boz” (Dickens Quarterly 22 (2005), 3-18), “Hazlitt, Horne, and the Spirit of the Age” (SEL, Studies in English Literature 45 (2005), 829-51), and “Embracing the New Spirit of the Age: Dickens and the Evolution of The Old Curiosity Shop” (Dickens Studies Annual, 32: 2003). I am currently editing the Clarendon edition of Sketches by Boz, using the original periodical versions of the sketches, which have never before been reprinted. It is due to appear in 2012. For the novice reader I have written an introduction, presented as an imagined interview, entitled Coffee with Dickens, and I have also edited Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen and Young Couples, forthcoming in World’s Classics in 2012.

I have served as President of the international Dickens Fellowship (2003-2005) and of the Dickens Society of America (1994) and as Chairman of the trustees of the Charles Dickens Museum (2005-09). I am active in Dickens2012.org, the committee promoting plans for the bicentenary of Dickens’s birth, which coincides in 2012 with the London Olympics. I have been awarded grants and fellowships from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, and the University of Aberdeen. I was University of Aberdeen Research Fellow for 1993-94.

I was Director of Undergraduate Programmes (Arts and Social Sciences) at the University of Aberdeen, a member of the University Academic Senate, the University Academic Standards Committee, and the University Committee for Teaching and Learning. I have served as Examinations Officer for the School of Literature and Language, convener of the Department of English Planning Committee and a member of the University Library Committee. I was secretary of the Aberdeen Literary Society from 1976-92. I served for many years as course convener for level one courses in English. I have been an adviser to visiting students from North America and to Aberdeen students in the Department of English on exchange programmes to America (1987-2005).

I am married with a daughter. I have two sons by a previous marriage.

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Paul Van Waters Schlicke

Curriculum Vitae

ADDRESS:

· Hill Cottage, Thainstone, Inverurie AB51 5NT Scotland

· e-mail <mailto:p.schlicke@abdn.ac.uk>

PERSONAL:

· Born 21 April 1943

· Dual nationality: United States citizen, British citizen.

· Married with one daughter; two sons by a previous marriage.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

· Lecturer in English, University of Aberdeen, 1971-89.

· Senior Lecturer in English, University of Aberdeen, 1989-2008.

· Teaching Fellow, University of Aberdeen, 2009.

EDUCATION:

· Gonzaga Preparatory School, Spokane, Washington, 1957-61; Honor Classical Diploma, 1961.

· Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1961-65; Bachelor of Arts (English Literature), 1965.

· University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1965-67; Medical School, 1965; Graduate School (English Literature), 1966-67.

· University of California, San Diego, 1967-71; Doctor of Philosophy (English and American Literature), 197l; dissertation title "Comic Characterization in Dickens's Early Fiction"; supervisor Andrew H. Wright.

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

· Dickens and Popular Entertainment (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988; first published by Allen & Unwin 1985), pp. xiv + 288; "the year's finest critical study of Dickens" (Jerome Meckier, Dickens Studies Annual).

· The Old Curiosity Shop: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1988), pp. xxii + 495 (co-compiler).

· Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. xxvii + 654; “magnificent. . .indispensable” (Adrian Poole, Times Higher Education Supplement); “a singular and thorough success. . .splendid” (Patrick McCarthy, Dickensian).

· Coffee with Dickens, with introduction by Peter Ackroyd (London: Duncan Baird, April 2008), pp. 144. Reissued with new title, Q & A: Dikcens . . .Off the Record (2011).

ARTICLES:

· "Bumble and the Poor Law Satire of Oliver Twist," Dickensian 71 (1975), 149-56.

· "The Life of a Strolling Player: Frederic Coleman Nantz (1810-1844)," Theatre Annual 34 (1979), 5-24.

· "A `Discipline of Feeling': Macready's Lear and The Old Curiosity Shop," Dickensian 76 (1980), 78-90.

· "The Pilgrimage of Pierce Egan," Journal of Popular Culture 21 (1987), 1-9.

· "When Found: The Old Curiosity Shop?" Dickensian 85 (1989), 57-8.

· "`Delightful, Splendid, and Surprising': The Theatre Dickens Knew," Dutch Dickensian, 11 (1990), 15-27

· "The True Pathos of The Old Curiosity Shop," Dickens Quarterly 7 (1990), 189-99.

· "Crummles Once More," Dickensian 86 (1990), 2-16.

· "The Showman of The Pickwick Papers," Dickens Studies Annual 20 (1991), 1-15.

· "Dickens in the Circus," Theatre Notebook 47 (1993), 3-19.

· "Glorious Apollers and Ancient Buffaloes," Dickensian 90 (1994), 171-78.

· “The ‘Other World’ of ‘The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices’,” in Dickens, Europe, and the New Worlds, ed. Anny Sadrin (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999), pp.194-98.

· “Social Class in Great Expectations,” BBC web page to accompany the 1999 dramatization: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dickens/ge/bckgrnd/society.htm

· “Editing the Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens,” Dickensian 95 (1999), 206-11.

· “Embracing the New Spirit of the Age: Dickens and the Evolution of The Old Curiosity Shop,” Dickens Studies Annual 32 (2003), 1-35.

· “Dickens and Shakespeare,” Japan Branch Bulletin of the Dickens Fellowship no. 27 (2004), 84-98.

· “Dickens and the Pirates: The Case of The Odd Fellow,” Dickensian 100 (2004), 224-25.

· “Revisions to Sketches by Boz,” Dickensian 101 (2005), 29-38.

· “The Impact of Sketches by Boz,” Dickens Quarterly 22 (2005), 3-18.

· “Hazlitt, Horne, and the Spirit of the Age,” SEL, Studies in English Literature 45 (2005), 829-51.

· “Macrone, Cruikshank and the proposed part-issue of Sketches by Boz,” Dickensian 105 (2009), 33-35

• “Victorian Popular Culture,” Dickens in Context, ed. Sally Ledger and Holly Furneaux (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press).

EDITIONS

· Hard Times by Charles Dickens (edited, with introduction and notes); Oxford University Press World's Classics series, 1989 (adopted by the Open University as a set text for their Arts Foundation course).

· Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (edited, with introduction and notes); Oxford University Press World's Classics series, 1990. "Paul Schlicke confirme par cette nouvelle publication ses qualitiés de très bon spécialiste de Dickens" -- Sylvère Monod, Études Anglaises.

· The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (edited, with introduction, notes and appendices); Dent's Everyman Dickens series,1995.

· The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. Edition, with introduction and notes. British Heritage Database, 2002.

REVIEWS: I have written 50-odd reviews for the Dickensian, Dickens Quarterly, Review of English Studies, etc.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Sketches by Boz. Clarendon Press. Forthcoming 2012.

· Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen and Young Couples. World’s Classics. Forthcoming 2012.

· Dickens’s first imaginative writing, monograph based on work done editing Sketches by Boz. Projected completion date 2013.

· Nicholas Nickleby: An Annotated Bibliography. Contracted with AMS Publisher, New York (Annotated Dickens bibliographies series)

ENTRIES

· "Dickens," Annotated Bibliography for English Studies (with Michael Hollington and Adam Roberts), 1996.

· "Charles Dickens 1812-1870," Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd edn., ed. Joanne Shattock et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 1181-1273.

· "Gilbert Abbott À Beckett 1811-1856" Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd edn., ed. Joanne Shattock et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 1988-92.

· "Frederic Coleman Nantz 1810?-1844, Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd edn., ed. Joanne Shattock et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 1973.

· "Gilbert Abbott À Beckett," New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University press, 2004)

· “F.C. Nantz," New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University press, 2004)

· "John Richardson," New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University press, 2004)

REPRINTED PIECES

· "Hard Times: The Necessity of Popular Entertainment" and "Popular Entertainment and Hard Times," Reading Hard Times, ed. Murray Baumgarten (Santa Cruz: The Dickens Project, University of California, 1989), pp. 94-99, 159-64.

· "Popular Entertainment and Childhood," Reading David Copperfield, ed. John O. Jordan (Santa Cruz: The Dickens Project, University of California, 1990), pp.198-99.

· "`Delightful, Splendid, and Surprising': The Theatre Dickens Knew," Rptd. Beyond Philology 1 (1999), 141-54. Rptd. Japan Branch Bulletin of the Dickens Fellowship no. 24 October 2001.

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

· "The Old Curiosity Shop: Dickens and Travelling Showmen". Conference on Popular Theatre, University of Kent, 1977.

· "The Life of a Strolling Player: Frederic Coleman Nantz". Conference on Provincial Culture, Sheffield Polytechnic, 1981.

· "Mr. Dickens at Home on the Stage" (keynote paper). Conference on “Dickens and the Theatre”, University of Texas at Austin, 1986.

· "The Showman of The Pickwick Papers". Conference on “Dickens, Shakespeare, and the Theatre”, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1986.

· "Crummles Once More". Dickens Fellowship Conference, York, 1989.

· "The True Pathos of The Old Curiosity Shop". Conference on “Dickens, Sentimentality, and Victorian Culture”, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1989.

· "The True Pathos of The Old Curiosity Shop". "Little Nell Day”, Birkbeck College (University of London), 1990.

· "Dickens in the Circus". Conference on “Victorian Publishing and the Circulation of Books”, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991.

· "W C Macready: Tragedy, Enlightenment and the spirit of the Age". Conference on "Characterising the Victorian", Trinity and All Saints, Leeds, 18 March 1995.

· "W C Macready: Tragedy, Enlightenment and the spirit of the Age". Victorian Studies in Scotland conference, Stirling, 1 April 1995.

· "The Other World of 'The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices'". Conference on "Dickens, Europe and the New Worlds", University of Bourgogne, Dijon, 13-16 June 1996.

· "'Delightful, Splendid and Surprising': The Theatre Dickens Knew". Dickens Fellowship 90th annual conference, University of Portsmouth, 18-22 July 1996.

· "The Topicality of Little Nell". Conference on "Dickens, Empire and Children" University of Rhodes, Grahamstown, South Africa, 2-5 September 1996.

· "Tragedy, enlightenment and the spirit of the age: W C Macready's 1838 production of King Lear". Conference on "Victorian Studies: into the 21st century", University of Liverpool, 7-8 September 1996.

· "Tragedy, enlightenment and the spirit of the age: W C Macready's 1838 production of King Lear". Victorian Literature Research Seminar, Oxford, 24 February 1997.

· “Hazlitt, Horne and the Spirit of the Age” (plenary paper). Conference on “Radical Cultures”, Trinity and All Saints, Leeds, 13-15 July 1998.

· “Editing the Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens”. Dickens Fellowship 90th annual conference, York, 18-22 July 1999.

· "Another Thing Needful". "Hard Times Day," Birkbeck College (University of London), 2001.

· “The Topicality of Bleak House”. Dickens Fellowship Conference, London, 18-25 July 2002.

· “Revisions to Sketches by Boz”. Conference on the 1830s, University of Salford, 13-15 September 2002.

· “Revisions to Sketches by Boz”. Dickens Fellowship annual conference, Bristol, 24-28 July 2003.

· “The Impact of Sketches by Boz”. Dickens Fellowship Headquarters lecture programme, 17 March 2004.

· “Dickens in the Circus,” Dickens Fellowship annual conference, Melbourne, 15-22 July 2004.

· “’Delightful, Splendid and Surprising’: the Theatre Dickens Knew,” Gad’s Hill lecture series, 17 September 2004.

· “Editing Sketches by Boz,” Dickens Fellowship annual conference, Canterbury, 1 August 2005.

· “The Impact of Sketches by Boz”. Dickens Fellowship annual conference, Amsterdam 30 July 2006.

· “Imagination and Brotherly Love”. Dickens Fellowship annual conference, Philadelphia 22 July 2007.

LECTURE TOURS

· Five lectures on the English novel, University of Oran, Algeria, 1983.

· Eight lectures on Dickens, Universities of Kinki, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Osaka, Konan, Kinjo and Seijo, Japan, 2000.

THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS:

· The Miller and His Men (producer and director,1977)

· Luke the Labourer (producer and director, 1978).

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

· numerous athletics awards at school and University, including Curtis Sharp Award for scholarship, leadership, and athletics, Gonzaga Preparatory School, 196l and Al Masters Award for Stanford University Athlete of the Year, 1965. Pacific Coast Collegiate Conference mile champion and record holder (4:02.5), 1964.

· National Defense Education Act, Title IV, Fellow, 1967-70.

· University of Aberdeen Fund for Travelling Allowance grants, 1976, 1977, 1978. 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994.

· Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland grant in aid of illustrations for Dickens and Popular Entertainment, 1985.

· Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland research grant for study at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1986.

· Dickens and Popular Entertainment nominated for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award, 1989.

· The Old Curiosity Shop: An Annotated Bibliography nominated for the Besterman medal, 1989.

· University of Aberdeen grant for research assistants, 1991, 1993, 1995.

· University of Aberdeen Research Fellow, 1993-94.

· Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland research grant for research at Harvard Theatre Collection, 1993.

· University of Aberdeen Faculty of Arts and Divinity grants for travel to MLA convention in Toronto 1993; in San Diego, 1994.

· British Academy grant for travel to speak at the conference "Dickens, Empire and Children" at the University of Rhodes, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1996.

· Arts and Humanities Research Board grant for one year’s leave of absence, 1999-2000 to work on Towards a New Spirit of the Age.

· British Academy grant to assist gathering of primary materials for edition of Sketches by Boz, 2002.

· Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland grant to assist gathering of primary materials for edition of Sketches by Boz, 2002.

· Friends of Aberdeen Library grant in aid of purchase of edition of Sketches by Boz.

· Arts and Humanities Research Board grant to support research assistant for work on Sketches by Boz.

· British Academy grant for travel to Dickens Fellowship annual conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2004.

· British Academy grant for travel to Dickens Fellowship annual conference, Amsterdam, 2006.

EXTERNAL EXAMINING:

· A.M.A.M. Aly, "The Tragic Vision in the Major Plays of Eugene O'Neill from 1920-1941", MPhil, University of Dundee, 1985.

· Heather Pike, “‘The Most Dreadful Visitation’: an Examination of Dickens’s Treatment of Madness in his Novels”, PhD, University of Salford, 1995.

· Benedikte Ranum, “Typecast Victorian—Uses of Biblical Typology in Late Victorian Literature”, PhD, University of Stirling, 1996.

· Grant Cerny, “How to Hang an Apprentice: The moral problem of Industry and Idleness re-examined in Victorian Illustrated Fiction”, PhD, Linacre College, Oxford, 1999.

· Karl Smith, “Dickens and the Unreal City: the Metropolitan Symbolism of the Mystery Story”, PhD, St Andrews, 2002.

· Mark Willis, “The Language of the Crowd: Models of the City in London Literature and Politics 1838-1870”, PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2002.

· Hazel Waters, “How Oroonoko Became Jim Crow: The Black Presence on the English Stage from the Late Eighteen to the Mid-Nineteenth Century”, PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2002.

· Fumei Tamai, “The Representation of Empire and Class in Dickens’s Novels.” PhD, Leeds, 2004.

· Anna Brown, “To Revive the Drama: The 1832 Select Committee Report on Dramatic Literature”, PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2007.

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

· Director, University of Aberdeen Undergraduate Programmes in Arts and Social Sciences, 2005-08.

· Chairman, Internal Teaching Reviews, University of Aberdeen: School of Biological Sciences, 2006; Department of Public Health, 2007; Law School, 2008

· Member, University Committee for Teaching and Learning, 2005-08.

· Member, Dickens Fellowship, 1969-present; president, 2003-2005.

· Member, University of Aberdeen Academic Standards Committee, 2002-08.

· School of Language and Literature Examinations Officer, 2002-05.

· Member, Dickens Society, 1970-present; president, 1994.

· Secretary, Aberdeen Literary Society, 1976-92.

· Member, Society for Theatre Research, 1978-present.

· Member, University of Aberdeen Library Committee, 1987-96.

· Adviser to visiting North American students, University of Aberdeen, 1987-2005, and to Department of English students on exchange programmes to America, 1997-2005.

· Member, University of Aberdeen Senatus Academicus, 1989-92, 1998-2002, 2005-08.

· Reader for articles submitted to SEL and Journal of Victorian Culture, 1992-present.

· Convener, EL1003 (formerly EL1001) Fiction and Poetry, 1994-2003, and EL1501, Tragedy and Comedy, 1994-96 (included induction and supervision of teaching assistants and dealing with some 2-300 students annually).

· Reader for monograph proposals submitted to Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Manchester University Press, Yale University Press, Ohio State University Press and Palgrave 1994-present.

· Member, University of Aberdeen working party on Academic Skills, 1995-8.

· Convener, University of Aberdeen Department of English Planning Committee (latterly Teaching & Learning Committee), 1997-9, 2000-02; member 2002-08.

· Member, University of Aberdeen Department of English Research Committee, 1998-2000.

March 2011