Six Degrees of Samuel Clemens (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)
Quarry Farm Fellow Alan Rankin talks about Nina Gabrilowitch, Mark Twain’s granddaughter, and his time at Quarry Farm
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CMTS Announces the 2021 Fall Trouble Begins Lectures
Lectures will be in-person at Quarry Farm and online. Check out the schedule to learn more.
Hartford Continues Its “Trouble Begins at 5:30” Lecture Series
Virtual talk is on October 13 at 5:30pm.
Antiracism In The Contemporary University with Amanda Bailey, Tita Chico, & Emily Yoon Perez
New episode features organizers of Antiracism project at University of Maryland.
“And that has made all the difference.”: Scaffolding Mark Twain’s Poetry
Building on work from the Summer Teachers Institute, Jocelyn Chadwick and Matt Seybold discuss using Mark Twain’s comedic verse to prepare students for Robert Frost’s much-anthologized “The Road Not Taken.”
Lecture on Twain’s complicated view of the Hawaiian landscape now available
Ryan Heryford is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature in the Department of English at California State University, East Bay
The Shush (& The Chair) with Michelle Chihara & Kyla Wazana Tompkins
The future of the English Department cannot be the same as its past.
Hartford Announces Trouble Begins Lecture
Former Quarry Farm Fellow, Dwayne Eutsey, gives a lecture for the Mark Twain House and Museum on September 1
A Chair On The Chair with Karen Tongson
Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | CastBox | ListenNotes Last week Netflix released an original series, The Chair, starring Sandra Oh, and created by Amanda Peet and Annie Julia Wyman. The show tracks the personal and professional life of Ji-Yoon Kim, during her first semester as Chair of the English Department at fictional Pembroke University. Over the next few episodes of The American Vandal Podcast, we’ll be featuring conversations not only about the show itself, as a cultural […]
On Material Sanctity (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)
Merav Schocken talks about her time at Quarry Farm and her research project on INNOCENTS ABROAD