Center for Mark Twain Studies - Elmira, NY

“We are perched on a hill-top that overlooks a little world of green valleys, shining rivers, sumptuous forests, and billowy uplands veiled in the haze of distance. We have no neighbors. It is the quietest of all quiet places, and we are hermits that eschew caves and live in the sun.” – Mark Twain

ABOUT THE CENTER FOR MARK TWAIN STUDIES

Mark Twain wrote his most famous works in an octagonal study overlooking Elmira, NY, the hometown of his wife, Olivia. For more than two decades the Clemens family summered with Olivia’s siblings at Quarry Farm. All are buried at the nearby Woodlawn Cemetery. In 1983, both Quarry Farm and the study, since relocated to the Elmira College campus, became part of the Center for Mark Twain Studies. CMTS is dedicated to serving an international community of Twain Scholars.

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2020 Mark Twain Writing Contest and Art Competition Open to Elmira College Students
Dec12
The Writing Contest and Art Competition both come with cash prizes
Art Exhibit Inspired by the View from the Quarry Farm Porch Coming Soon
Dec05
Exhibit Opening is Saturday, December 14, 2019 at Community Arts of Elmira
Perfect Pairings of Music & Literature: A Holiday Collaboration with The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes
Dec02
Learn about how the Clemens family celebrated Christmas and enjoy a holiday-themed musical program at the historic Clemens Center.
CFP: Mark Twain Circle at ALA Conference in San Diego, CA (May 21-24, 2020)
Nov26
CFP Deadline is January 15, 2020
Through a Southern Woman Writer’s Eyes: Seeing the Man in “A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain’s Court: Letters from Grace King’s New England Sojourns”
Nov19
A new collection from a recent Quarry Farm Fellow memorializes the relationship between Mark Twain and Grace King.

2021 Quarry Farm Fellowships GUIDELINES

QUARRY FARM
VIRTUAL TOUR
AND
ELMIRA 1901 MAP

CMTS 2019 Lectures
in Review

2020 Quarry FArm Symposium
“American Humor and Matters of Empire”

CMTS RESOURCES

Mark Twain Day by Day

TROUBLE BEGINS ARCHIVES

ONLINE RESOURCES
FOR MARK TWAIN STUDIES

THE Mark Twain
ARCHIVE

PHOTO GALLERY

RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS & STUDENTS

PAST QUARRY FARM FELLOWS

PAst Quadrennial Conferences

PASt Quarry FArm SymPOSIA

Upcoming Events & Call for Papers

British Association of Nineteenth Century Americanists

4th Biennial Symposium

December 16-17, 2019 – Nottingham, United Kingdom

Deadline for CFP has passed

CFP: American Humor Studies at 2020 ALA Conference

May 21-24, 2020 – San Diego, California

Abstracts Deadline: December 16, 2019

CFP: Special Issue of Journal of Transnational American Studies

“Global Huck: Mapping the Cultural Work of Translations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn“

Proposals Deadline: January 1, 2020

Mark Twain Circle at 2020 MLA

January 9-12, 2020 – Seattle, Washington

Deadline for CFP has passed

Nineteenth Century American Forum at 2020 MLA

January 9-12, 2020 – Seattle, Washington

Deadline for CFP has passed

CFP: Mark Twain Circle at 2020 ALA Conference

May 21-24, 2020 – San Diego, California

CFP Deadline: January 15, 2020

CFP: American Humor Studies Association Conference

June 18-20, 2020 – Austin, Texas

CFP Deadline: February 3, 2020

Panel on “Afterlives of Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee at 2020 NEMLA

March 5-8, 2020 – Boston, Massachusetts

Deadline for CFP has passed

C19 Biennial Conference

April 2-5, 2020 – Coral Gables, Florida

Deadline for CFP has passed

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