Professor Eric Lorentzen recently published an article in Dickens Studies Annual on Charles Dickens and education entitled “‘This Schoolroom is a Nation’: Subverting the Catechistic Method in Dickens.” Dr. Lorentzen’s article examines rote memorization as Victorian pedagogical practice and its relationship with social positions. His research surveys educational primers and early nineteenth-century British literature and analyzes how Dickens’s novels critique those practices in and beyond the arena of the Victorian classroom in relation to social control.