Leon is Reader in Victorian Studies at the Queen's University of Belfast, in Northern Ireland. He has been a Dickens Letters Editor since 2005, and is an acknowledged authority on Dickens's handwriting and manuscripts. He regularly serves as a consultant for auction houses, museums and booksellers, and is the author of many publications on Dickens, focussing primarily on manuscripts, letters, painting, photography, and the historical and cultural contexts surrounding Dickens's life and work. His latest book, Reading Dickens Differently, was published by Wiley Blackwell in 2020. He is also editing Our Mutual Friend for the authoritative Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens series.
The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Leon Litvack (Principal Editor)
Jeremy Parrott (Associate Editor)
Jeremy is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham, but lives in Szeged, Hungary. He previously worked for the British Council and taught English at universities in Britain, France, Jordan and Hungary. He has concurrently been engaged in antiquarian bookselling for over 30 years and has published several bibliographies of Victorian authors as well as a guide to naming in the works of Samuel Beckett. In 2015 he announced his discovery of the only known marked set of All the Year Round (1859-68) and spent the next three years compiling a guide to the 320+ contributors to the magazine and their contributions for Yale University Press, still in the course of publication. He writes for The Dickensian and Dickens Quarterly and recently published a Bibliography of the Lifetime UK Editions of Dickens's Collected Works (Kakapo Press 2020). Since June 2020 he has run the YouTube channel Dickens & Co., regularly posting videos on aspects of his Dickens-related research.
Michael Slater (Consultant Editor)
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).
Malcolm Andrews (Consultant Editor)
Malcolm Andrews is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent and a former Editor of The Dickensian. He has published a number of books on Dickens and on landscape in literature and art.
Emily Bell (Consultant Editor)
Emily is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Leeds. She has published articles and chapters on Dickens, life writing and commemoration, and recently edited a volume, Dickens After Dickens, for White Rose UP (2020), and a special issue of Victoriographies with Claire Wood on Dickens's death and legacy (2020). Emily is currently editing Dickens’s later short fiction for the Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens with Michael Slater and writing a biography of Dickens for Reaktion Books. She is the Honorary Editor of The Dickensian.
Lydia Craig (Associate Editor)
Lydia is an instructor of English at Lake Land College. Among other publications, she has contributed chapters and articles on textual studies and digital research in Dickens Studies to Dickens and Women Reobserved (ed. Edward Guiliano), The Theological Dickens (2021) (ed. Brenda Ayres; Sarah Maiers), Dickens Quarterly and Dickens Studies Annual. Besides holding various positions in the Dickens Society, she has reviewed for the Dickens Quarterly and is co-editor, with Emily Bell, of the open-access Omeka database Dickens Search (in-beta). As part of a current research project, she has been researching the history behind what appear to be Dickens’s fictionalized portrayals of several friends and acquaintances in Bleak House.
Scott Caddy (Assistant Editor)
Scott is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He completed his PhD in English Literature at Arizona State University (2021). His research focuses on digital humanities, Romantic and Victorian literature, with special emphasis on stylometric analysis and literary outliers. He has previously taught at the University of Michigan-Flint, Northern Arizona University, and for the UC-Berkeley Digital Humanities summer sessions.