CFP: Panel on (Re)Presenting Realism
Abstracts are due August 31, 2021
Blog
Broken Idol: An Encomium For Hal Bush
Harold K. Bush, known to his friends as Hal, passed away earlier this week after a prolonged and finally unsuccessful recovery from a traumatic brain injury. Hal was a professor at St. Louis University and an acclaimed Twain scholar, probably best known for Mark Twain & The Spiritual Crisis of His Age (2007) and The Letters of Mark Twain & Joseph Hopkins Twichell (2017). His chapter on Twain in Continuing […]
Lecture on Mark Twain’s Granddaughter Now Available
Alan Rankin gives a heart-warming account of Nina Gabrilowitsch’s life, filled with happiness and tragedy.
Encountering Mark Twain in Palestine
Lubna Alzaroo discusses how Mark Twain’s descriptions have become part of contested claims of Israel upon Palestine.
CFP: C19 Roundtable on Print Genres
Abstracts for the C19 Roundtable are due August 15
CFP: C19 Panel – Reconstructing Radicalism
Abstracts for the proposed C19 Panel are due September 5
CFP: Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom
Submission abstract deadline is October 1, 2021
CCHS Announces 2021 Twain Lectures
Lectures will take place on Thursdays in August and September at the Chemung County Historical Society.
The Invisible Home of Frederick Douglass, John W. Jones, & Mark Twain with Jill Spivey Caddell & Shirley Samuels
Special Emancipation Week Episode of The American Vandal Podcast!
The Fickle Affections of The Elmira Advertiser For Frederick Douglass
How did the editor of a paper that was habitually rude to Frederick Douglass end up with the manuscript of his Emancipation Day speech?