Recorded Presentations

• John Bird, “Irreverent Humor on Death and Dying: Mark Twain’s ‘The Undertaker’s Tale'” (July 31, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Zsanna Mária Bodor, “‘Extinction in the Smoke-Clouds of the Stake’: Evolution and Ecogothic in Mark Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc” (July 31, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Gregg Camfield, “Is He Dead?” (August 1, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• David Carlyon, “Why Send Huck to a Circus? Why Bind Jim?” (July 30, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• James Caron, “Marietta Holley and the Gilded Age Women’s Movement” (July 31, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Kerry Driscoll, “‘Not for sin but for sentiment – and stupidity’: Mark Twain’s Brief (and Unhappy) Association with the Connecticut Prisoners’ Friends’ Society” (July 30, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Dwayne Eutsey, “‘I don’t take no stock in dead people’: Mark Twain’s Holy Irreverence” (July 31, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Kaine Ezell, “‘Showing Off’ for Who?: Twain’s Analysis of Spiritual Motivation in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer“
• Edward Guimont, “Twain, Astronomy, and Speculative Fiction” (July 30, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Anjalee Gunaratnam, “Latimer’s Matter: The Decomposition of Self, Hegelian Dialectics, and George Eliot’s Physics of Sympathy in ‘The Lifted Veil'” (July 30, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Ryuzo Hamamoto, “An Unrealized Connection between Japan and Twain: Hannah Riddell’s Letter and Its Transnational Context” (August 1, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Harold Hellwig, “Connecticut Yankee and Innocents Aborad: Catholicism and Antithesis; Pilgrimage, Conversion, Reverence, and Betrayal” (August 1, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Robert Hirst, “Looking Back, Looking Forward” (July 31, 2026 – Elmira College Campus) KEYNOTE EVENT
• Kumi Ikoma, “The Defiant Daughter and the Silent Father: ‘Wapping Alice’ and Susy Clemens” (July 31, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Holger Kersten, “Jim in a New Light: Revisiting Huckleberry Finn Illustrations in American and German First Editions (July 30, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Takuya Kubo, “Biocultural Reading of Huckleberry Finn: Huck’s Oscillation between Body, Thought, and American Dichotomies” (July 30, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• James W. Leonard, “Enumerating Myth: ROUGHING IT and the Disorder of Things (August 1, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Kevin Mac Donnell, “Mark Twain’s Black Muse: The Life and Legacy of His Butler, George Griffin” (July 31, 2026 – Elmira College Campus
• Kotaro Nakagaki, “Dictating Grief: Writing as Mourning in Mark Twain’s Autobiography” (July 31, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Terry Oggel, “Twain and Tesla: The Twain Shall Meet” (July 30, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Nicholas Otranto, “Mark Twain and American Belonging” (July 30, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Susan Poulson, “Love, Marriage, and Murder: Samuel Clemens and the Perils of Passion” (July 31, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Patrick Prominski,”The Microscopist and Mark Twain: Expanding Twain’s Elmira Social Circle and Influence on ‘The Great Dark'” (July 30, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Stephen Rachman, “Thinking Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman and Mark Twain’s ‘How To Tell A Story'” (July 31, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Alan Rankin, “In Their Right Minds: Livy, Clara, Nina, and ‘Americanitis'” (July 31, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Jeanne Campbell Reesman, “The ‘Australasian Spartans’ of Tasmania: Classical Allusion as Satire in Following the Equator“
• Laura Rice, “From Twain to Trump: A Genealogy of Incivility” (August 1, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Ann Ryan, “Cowards, Critics, and the Untold True Story of ‘The United States of Lyncherdom'”
• Jeff Steinbrink, “Quantum Failure and Gunplay in Huck Finn“
• Todd Nathan Thompson, “‘Siberia,’ Rechristened ‘Future’: Imaginative Mapping Meets Imperial Anxiety in Gilded Age Humor” (July 31, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)
• Hillary Warolin, “Transmediality and Adaptation: Moby-Dick and Tom Sawyer” (July 30, 2026 – Elmira College Campus)