Natalie McKnight
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Professor of Humanities at Boston University
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Professor McKnight is a Professor of Humanities as well as Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Her research focuses on Victorian studies, gender studies and general education. Her teaching emphasis is on survey literature and art courses, Victorian studies, creative writing and ethical philosophy. Professor McKnight is the author of Idiots, Madmen and Other Prisoners in Dickens as well as Suffering Mothers in Mid-Victorian Novels.
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When Dickens’s dream of Lowell came crashing down
January 8, 2014
Boston.com “Brainiac” Natalie McKnight, College of General Studies On December 15 I wrote a story for Ideas about new research suggesting Charles Dickens may have found inspiration for “A Christmas Carol” in an unexpected place: a literary journal called “The Lowell Offering” written by Lowell “mill girls” that Dickens encountered on his 1842 tour of the United […]
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Scholars: Dickens classic may have Lowellian links
December 16, 2013
Lowell Sun Natalie McKnight, College of General Studies The great Charles Dickens may have had some help in crafting his timeless classic “A Christmas Carol,” thanks to the Lowell “mill girls” of the 1840s… Expert quote: “I do think some people just like to think there was this traditional genius… a lone man getting divine […]
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Was Dickens’s Christmas Carol borrowed from Lowell’s mill girls?
December 13, 2013
Boston Globe (subscription required) Natalie McKnight, College of General Studies The industrial city of Lowell might seem a world apart from the fireside British scenes we associate with Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.”… Expert quote: “There’s a way in which [the Lowell women] pulled together the supernatural elements, the Christmas setting, the sentiment, that theme […]
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The roots of Scrooge
December 8, 2013
Dickens Blog Natalie McKnight, College of General Studies [Natalie McKnight] and Boston College student Chelsea Bray has done some fascinating research on how The Lowell Offering, a literary journal run by female textile workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, helped inspire A Christmas Carol… View full article
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The continuing popularity of A Christmas Carol
December 3, 2013
The holiday season is now upon us which means people will be reading and watching A Christmas Carol, the Charles Dickens novella written in 1843. An immediate commercial and critical success, it remains immensely popular to this day. Natalie McKnight, Dean of the College of General Studies, is a scholar of Victorian culture and an […]
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Charles Dickens’ American Tour
February 8, 2012
PRI’s The World Natalie McKnight, College of General Studies Today’s Geo Quiz feels about 200 years old. English novelist Charles Dickens was born 2 centuries ago Tuesday, but he remains relevant even now said Archbishop of Canterbury because his books and characters explore what it means to be human… View article and listen to audio
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Charles Dickens: first pop culture celebrity
February 5, 2012
Houston Chronicle Natalie McKnight, College of General Studies Colorful caricatures from Charles Dickens’ novels have become fixtures of our 21st-century imagination…. View article
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