The Blacks Who Built America’s Hometown: An Introduction to “Hannibal’s Invisibles”
Shelley Fisher Fiskin’s introduction to G. Faye Dant’s “Hannibal’s Invisibles” captures why the book is so important.
Author: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Unlearning Racism: What Roles Can Works By Mark Twain Play in An Anti-Racist Pedagogy?
A wonderful essay by Shelley Fisher Fishkin originally published in the Japanese literary journal, Mark Twain Studies.
Call For Papers: Special “Global Huck” Forum in Journal of Transnational American Studies
Consider contributing to this forthcoming special issue of JTAS on translations of Huckleberry Finn.
A Bouquet of Birthday Wishes from Mark Twain Scholars to Hal Holbrook on his 94th Birthday: What “Mark Twain Tonight!” Means To Us
A montage honoring acclaimed actor and Mark Twain scholar, Hal Holbrook, on his 94th birthday.
Inaugural Issue of International Journal Features Essay By Award-Winning Twain Scholar
Hunan Normal University, a higher education institution serving over 30,000 students in Changsha, China, recently launched The Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal targeted at a broadly interdisciplinary and international audience. Each issue of the journal will be published in both English and Mandarin, and the editorial board includes scholars from nine countries on three continents. Among the fifteen articles in the opening issue, there are analyses of […]
Hal Holbrook’s Timeless Gift: The Performance of a Lifetime
In literally thousands of extraordinary performances of his groundbreaking show, “Mark Twain Tonight!,” Hal Holbrook has brought Mark Twain alive for millions of people in the U.S. and around the world for over 60 years. To prepare for his first solo performance as Mark Twain, he researched reviews of Twain’s lecture tours and combed through little-known Twain texts in the Mark Twain Papers at Berkeley. The spectacularly innovative off-Broadway show that […]