Tag: American Humor

Center for Mark Twain Studies Offers Travel Grant for “Humor in America 2018” in Chicago

Posted on by Matt Seybold

The quadrennial conference  co-sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle of America will be held at Roosevelt University in Chicago from July 12-15, 2018. Please check out the Call for Papers at the conference website for complete information about submissions, registration, accommodations, etc. For the first time in 2018, the Center for Mark Twain Studies is offering a $500 grant to support travel and registration for a […]

CMTS ANNOUNCES SPRING 2017 “TROUBLE BEGINS” LECTURE SERIES LINE-UP

Posted on by Joe Lemak

In 1985, the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies inaugurated The Trouble Begins at Eight lecture series. The title comes from a handbill advertising Mark Twain’s October 2, 1866 lecture presented at Maguire’s Academy of Music in San Francisco. The lectures are now held in the Fall and Spring of each year, in the barn at Quarry Farm or at Peterson Chapel in Cowles Hall on Elmira College’s campus. All […]