CLICK HERE FOR A FULL RECAP OF ELMIRA 2026 Conference Theme: Irreverence, Rebellion, and Resilience Established in 1989, the quadrennial International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies is the oldest and largest gathering of scholars interested in the field...
For the tenth year the Center for Mark Twain Studies has sponsored the "Portraying Mark Twain" art competition for all Elmira College students. Five final images were selected from twenty-five submissions that represented Mark Twain, his literature, or aspects of his...
The Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) concluded the 2025 Park Church Lecture Series last night with a talk entitled, "Beyond Mental Telegraphy: Twain's Late Psychological Fiction" by Thomas W. Howard, Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey). The Trouble Begins and The...
The 2025 Park Church Summer Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) begins at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 16 at the historic Park Church, known for its architecture and connection to Mark Twain and his close family and friends. Located at...
The Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) continued the 2025 Park Church Lecture Series last night with a talk entitled, “Detecting Twain in Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins” presented by Aliza Theis, University of California, Berkeley. Mark your...
The 2025 Park Church Summer Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) begins at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 9 at the historic Park Church, known for its architecture and connection to Mark Twain and his close family and friends. Located at...
The 2025 Park Church Summer Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) begins at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 25 at the historic Park Church, known for its architecture and connection to Mark Twain and his close family and friends. Located at...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 11, 2019EDITOR”S NOTE: The following was offered as an introduction to the performance of “Mark Twain’s Music Box” at the Park Church in Elmira on February 8th, 2019.117 years ago this week, in February of 1902, Mark...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on February 28, 202 Sometimes we labor under the delusion that by actively cultivating tastes for specific flavors of mortal risk, social isolation, physical pain, and other varietals of suffering we might transcend the oppressive...
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on October 5, 2018At the outset of his chapter on “The Economics of American Literary Realism” in The Routledge Companion to Literature & Economics (published today, by the way), Henry Wonham asks whether “the diverse set of...