The Black University Concept & The Second Curriculum (A Tale of Today, Episode #6)
The second act of “A Tale of Today” opens with a survey of the history of HBCUs.
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Gillman’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available
Susan Gillman explores the intersection of caste, orientalism, and occultism in FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR
CFP: FOURTH MARK TWAIN CONFERENCE IN HANNIBAL, MO
CFP deadline is February 15
“Ever The Twain” (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)
James Plath writes about the challenges/opportunities at Quarry Farm
Ponzi Austerity In The Age of Cultural Abundance (Criticism LTD, Episode #3)
How has the systemic defunding and deprofessionalizing of humanities academia impacted literary criticism? Why is there such a flourishing culture industry if demand for cultural education is supposedly declining?
Hungover From The Bad Old Days of High Theory (Criticism LTD, Episode #2)
What is criticism? Why should it matter? Can it be saved from the gun-toting businessman? A crossover episode with the High Theory podcast.
A Tour of Quarry Farm’s Historic Interiors and Furnishings
Explore the Quarry Farm collections like never before!
CMTS 2023-2025 Strategic Plan (and 2022 Review)
Check out what we did in 2022 and what our goals are in the upcoming years
Quarry Farm Fellowship Deadline Approaching
Deadline is Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Samuels’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available
The 2022 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) held its second lecture on Wednesday, October 12 at Quarry Farm. The lectures are free and open to the public and recordings of the lectures will be posted to the CMTS website. The second lecture, “Haunting the River: Melville and Twain,” was presented by Shirley Samuels (Cornell University). For Mark Twain, the Mississippi River appears as a recursive site […]