University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Trey Philpotts, PhD, Chair

Rank: Professor
Office: 501-O Stabler Hall
Office Phone: 501-683-7768
Email: hlphilpotts@ualr.edu

Educational Background

PhD, University of Delaware
MA, University of Virginia
BA, University of Virginia

Areas of Focus

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Literature, Charles Dickens

Selected Publications

• The Companion to Dombey and Son (forthcoming)
• The Companion to Little Dorrit (2003)
• “Dickens and Technology,” A Companion to Charles Dickens (Blackwell) (2008)
• “Dickens, Invention, and Literary Property in the 1850s.” Dickens Quarterly (2007)
• “The ‘Civil Service’ and ‘Administrative Reform’: The Blame Game in Little Dorrit.” Dickens Quarterly (2000)
• “Trevelyan, Treasury, and Circumlocution.” Dickens Studies Annual (1994)
• “Dickens, Patent Reform, and the Inventor: Daniel Doyce and the Question of Topicality.” Dickens Quarterly (1992)
• “The Real Marshalsea.” The Dickensian (1991)
• “`To Working Men’ and `The People’: Dickens’s View of Class Relations in the Months Preceding Little Dorrit.” Dickens Quarterly (1990)

Other Scholarly Work and Awards

• Review Editor, Dickens Quarterly (1995-2009)
• Faculty Award of Excellence for Teaching, Arkansas Tech University (2005)
• Faculty Award of Excellence for Scholarship, Arkansas Tech University (2003)