"The energy comes from Dickens telling stories of the city’s urban uprising. I couldn’t really teach that in South LA without addressing the 1992 LA riots and addressing the history of LA urban riots….I asked (my students) 'how can you be the Dickens of your times?'" ___ One of the highlights at this year’s Dickens Universe — the largest multi-campus consortium on Victorian studies in the world which takes place at UC Santa Cruz — will be a featured exhibit related to "Barnaby Rudge." The exhibit is coming to the campus from Los Angeles along with a contingent of students and their teacher, Jacqueline Barrios. A graduate student in English at UCLA, Barrios is using Dickens’ novel to explore the impact and history of the Los Angeles riots of 1992 with her high school students from South LA at the James A. Foshay Learning Center. The exhibit will be open to the public. Get more info on our news center. Link in bio. ___ #ucsc #ucsantacruz #dickens #dickensuniverse #learn #learning #ucla