Leon Litvack Author & Editor

Leon Litvack is Reader in Victorian Studies at the Queen's University of Belfast. He is the Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project, and an authority on the author's manuscripts, letters, and handwriting, as well as on his photographic portraits. He has held Visiting Professorships at Columbia University and the University of New Brunswick, and has been awarded major research grants by the British Academy and the Arts & Humanities Research Council. He is a former Trustee of the Charles Dickens Museum, and founder and Past President of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Leon is Joint General Editor of the Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens.