Meet Our Faculty
Dr. Christian Dickinson
Assistant Professor of English
Division of Christian Studies and Humanities
Assistant Director of the Academic Success Center
Education
- PhD, Baylor University
- MA, Florida State University
- BA, University of North Florida
- AA, Florida State Community College at Jacksonville
Biography
I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida where my father serves as a music minister at First Baptist Church. I developed an early interest in science fiction and fantasy literature, and from there began to explore the classics. In addition to my research interests, I have a love for theater and fiction writing.
Interesting Facts About Me
- I have acted in a number of community theater performances and have even served as an assistant director at The Baptist College of Florida
- I am working with my brother, a composition graduate who lives in Savannah, on a musical adaptation of “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Research Interests
- The Victorian Novel
- Victorian Culture and Religion
- The Western Canon
Professional Organizations/Memberships
- Dickens Society Symposium
- International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA)
Favorite Classes Taught at BPC
- BPC 98 – Reading and Writing for College
- ENG 101 – Writing and Rhetoric
- ENG 204 – Survey of British Literature II
- ENG 432 – Modernism and Post-Modernism
Favorite Bible Verse
“Gleams from a Brighter World, Too Soon Eclipsed”: Charlotte Yonge’s Anglo-Catholic Reserve in The Heir of Redclyffe (Under Review at The Journal of Anglican and Episcopal History)
“Neither High-Church, Low-Church, nor No-Church”: Religious Dissatisfaction and Dissent in
Bleak House”: Dickens Studies Annual, Vol 49, no 2
“A Crucified God: Charles Kingsley’s Broad-Church Embodiment in Hypatia”: Victorians: A
Journal of Culture and Literature, No 136, Winter 2019
“If He Could Turn Back Time: Scrooge’s Missing Hours in the Christmas Carol”
(Online Publication – http://dickenssociety.org/?p=2185)
Using the Whole Animal: Domestic Economy in The Charles Dickens Cookbook
(Online Publication – http://dickenssociety.org)
Alfonso Cuarón’s Great Expectations: (Online Publication – www.streakybacon.net)
“The Umbrella Academy: Addicted to Love”: Christ and Pop Culture
(Online Publication – https://christandpopculture.com/the-umbrella-academy-addicted-to-love/)
“Too Familiar” (Fiction)
(Online Publication – https://martinmatthewswrites.com/blog/too-familiar-christian-dickinson)
“Dickens” contributor: Years Work in English Studies, 2015
“Dickens” contributor: Years Work in English Studies, 2016
“Dickens” contributor: Years Work in English Studies, 2017
