The 2025 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) concluded its lecture series on October 29, 2025. The Trouble Begins and The Park Church Summer Lecture Series are made possible by the support of the Mark Twain...
The 2025 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) concludes at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 29 in the Quarry Farm Performance Barn, Located at 131 Crane Road, Elmira, the lectures are free and open to the public and...
In a 2011 PMLA Editor’s Column “Literature in the Ages of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources” Patricia Yeager asked what might happen if, rather than organizing literary history by segments of chronological time (historical...
The 2025 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) continued its lecture series on October 16, 2025. The Trouble Begins and The Park Church Summer Lecture Series are made possible by the support of the Mark Twain...
The 2025 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) continued its lecture series on October 15, 2025. The Trouble Begins and The Park Church Summer Lecture Series are made possible by the support of the Mark Twain...
The 2025 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) begins at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 15 in the Quarry Farm Performance Barn, Located at 131 Crane Road, Elmira, the lectures are free and open to the public and...
Wednesday, October 8 in Gibson Theater, Elmira College (7:00 PM) Ron Chernow's Mark Twain Book Tour Ron Chernow, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Biographer Mark Twain ranks as America’s most beloved humorist, the largest literary figure this country has produced. Posterity...
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...