Claire Wood
SECRETARY, 2023-2026
Associate Professor, School of Arts, University of Leicester
Claire Wood is Associate Professor in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Dickens and the Business of Death (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and has published on epitaphs, material culture, adaptation, and Dickens’s ghost stories. Together with Professor Hugo Bowles, she led the award-winning Dickens Code project (2021-2023), which sought solutions to Dickens’s undeciphered shorthand writing. Claire is also Secretary of the Dickens Society.
Website: https://le.ac.uk/people/claire-wood