USC’s 2026 Summer Bookpacking class is underway.
For the next four weeks a group of USC students are on location in London and Paris, bookpacking two classic historical novels, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens, and ‘Les Misérables’ by Victor Hugo. We’ll be exploring the locations of these epic stories, tracing their trajectories - to the guillotine, to the barricades - and discovering how these tales of Revolution still resonate in our own fractured age.
Follow along as we blog our experiences.
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Joan Chong
Kate Diers
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Explore the locations from the novels using old maps.