Please join Dr. Peter Capuano, James E. Ryan Professor of English at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, for his talk, “On the Mutuality of Method: Distant (Digital) and Close (Analogue) Reading in Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language.” 

Dr. Capuano has published two monographs. His most recent, Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language (Cornell University Press, 2023) is available on Cornell University Press and Amazon. His previous book, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body (University Michigan Press, 2015), was shortlisted for the British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize.

Parking is available in Lots D and E, just north of the Clock Tower. Light refreshments will be served.