CMTS Announces the 2025 Class of Quarry Farm Fellows

The Center for Mark Twain Studies is honored to announce the 2025 Class of Quarry Farm Fellows!

You can find the 2025 Class HERE.

Every year, The Center for Mark Twain Studies offers eleven Quarry Farm fellowships to any scholar, writer, and artist working in the field of Mark Twain Studies at any career stage, giving Fellows the opportunity to work on academic or creative projects at Quarry Farm, the family home of Twain’s sister- and brother-in-law, Susan and Theodore Crane. Twain and his family lived at Quarry Farm for over twenty summers. During this time, in an octagonal study located about one hundred yards from the main house, Mark Twain wrote the majority of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and many other major works. Fellows are consistently struck by the beauty and quiet of the home and its surroundings, an environment inspiring in its own right and especially conducive to writing and research. You can find more information about the Quarry Farm Fellowship Program HERE.

Reflecting the mission of the Center for Mark Twain Studies, Quarry Farm Fellowships foster and support scholarship and creative works related to Mark Twain, including, but not limited to, his literature, life, family, associations, influences, reception, and significance. The fellowship selection process aims to assist scholars, writers, and artists in producing work of highest distinction and cultivate a diverse community across backgrounds, specializations, and ranks.

Mark Twain was interested in a myriad of different subjects. The Quarry Farm Fellowships reflect Twain’s insatiable curiosity. Not only are scholars in the field of literature and history encouraged to apply, but applicants from any academic or creative field are eligible for fellowships. While projects focusing on a critical analysis of Twain’s literary corpus are common, projects emerging from cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, environmental science, political science, economics, and the creative arts are also most welcome. For more information about the Visual Arts Fellowship, click HERE.

The Quarry Farm Fellowship Program is funded by the Mark Twain Foundation. The Center for Mark Twain Studies deeply appreciates its magnanimous, continued support.