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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Members of the Elmira College Community Perform A Revised Version of “A True Story”
Nov11
In September 2019, the Elmira College community performed a revised version of "A True Story"
Celebrity Authors For A Cause: The Anti-Vivisection Connection Between Mark Twain & Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Nov05
Did you know that Mark Twain was an Animal Rights activist?
CFP: American Humor Studies Association in Austin, TX (June 18-20, 2020)
Nov01
Call for Papers deadline is February 3, 2020
You Could Get Bookings: A Review of Holbrook/Twain
Oct29
A new documentary paints an intimate portrait of the actor who spent 63 years playing one of America's most iconic…
Judith Yaross Lee Concludes the 2019 Fall ‘Trouble Begins’ Series
Oct28
The lecture takes place on Wednesday, October 30, starting at 7pm at the Quarry Farm Barn

2020 Quarry Farm Fellowships GUIDELINES

QUARRY FARM
VIRTUAL TOUR
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ELMIRA 1901 MAP

CMTS 2019 Lectures
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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: 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: 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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