2022 Mark Twain Circle Awards Presented at Elmira Conference
Congrats to this year’s recipients!
Category: Mark Twain Circle
Jervis Langdon Jr. & Henry Nash Smith Awards Presented At Quadrennial Conference
Our quadrennial service awards for members of the local and scholarly communities.
Inaugural Mark Twain Circle Emerging Scholar Award Goes To Mika Turim-Nygren
For her article “Mark Twain’s Modernism” in J19.
2022 Mark Twain Circle Business Meeting
May 25, 4:00-5:30PM via Zoom
The John T. Lewis Story: A Repeat Epistolary Performance
Two scholars from the Mark Twain Project analyze Twain’s storytelling technique by comparing two letters recounting the same famous incident at Quarry Farm.
Athens By Moonlight: Mark Twain Tours Ancient Greece in The Innocents Abroad
Sam Clemens broke quarantine in 1867 to sneak into Athens and produce a vision of the “birthplace of democracy” that would appeal to American readers of the time.
New Issue of MARK TWAIN ANNUAL Now Available
Ben Click, editor of the MARK TWAIN ANNUAL, talks about the brand new issue
Encountering Mark Twain in Palestine
Lubna Alzaroo discusses how Mark Twain’s descriptions have become part of contested claims of Israel upon Palestine.