The Charles Dickens Letters Project

Michael was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2014 for his services to literary scholarship. He is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of a number of studies of Dickens, notably a major biography, Charles Dickens 1812-1870 (Yale University Press, 2009). He is a former Editor of The Dickensian and a Past President of both the Dickens Fellowship and the Dickens Society of America. During 1994–2000 he edited The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens's Journalism (4 vols., vol. 4 co-edited with John Drew).