FROM THE STUDY

Below you will find an index of original scholarly materials created exclusively for MarkTwainStudies.org.

Alphabetical Order by Author

• Alvarado, Diandra, “Livy Clemens & Mark Twain’s Moment of Enlightenment”
• Alzaroo, Lubna, “Encountering Mark Twain in Palestine”
• The American Vandal Podcast (from this page you can link to homepages for individual episodes, which include bibliographies, guest bios, etc.)
• Ball, Nathaniel, “Rev. Thomas K. Beecher Presides Over the Memorial For Susy Clemens”
• Bates, Courtney, “Mark Twain Expected Us to Read His Fan Mail”
• Beidler, Peter G., “Building A Model of Huck and Jim’s Raft”
• Beydoun, Mona & Samantha DeRosia, “2018 Undergraduate Quarry Farm Fellows Interview Filmmakers Aaron & Adam Nee about Their Adaptation of Tom Sawyer“
• Bronson-Bartlett, Blake and Terry Catapano, “The John T. Lewis Story: A Repeat Epistolary Performance”
• Bianculli, David, “Mark Twain: Television Star”
• Bossart van Otterloo, Bridget, “Plein Air Painting at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Caddell, Jillian Spivey, “A Caring Man’: Remembering John W. Jones & Mark Twain in Elmira”
• Caddell, Jillian Spivey, “A Writer’s Table (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Cadle, Nathaniel, “Contemplating Nineteenth-Century Print Culture (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Caron, James “Humor Scholar James E. Caron Discusses His New Book On ‘Truthiness’”
• Cavitch, Max “Living the Life (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Chadwick, Jocelyn, “The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part I”
• Chadwick, Jocelyn,“The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part II”
• Chadwick, Jocelyn, “21st-Century Students Respond to Sensitive Texts”
• Chadwick, Jocelyn “When Will We Listen? Mark Twain Through The Lens of Generation Z”
• Chadwick, Jocelyn and Matt Seybold, “‘And that has made all the difference’: Scaffolding Mark Twain’s Poetry”
• Click, Ben, “Editor’s Re:Marks (Introduction to the 2020 Mark Twain Annual)”
• Courtney, Steve “The Beginnings of The Hartford House, Part I”
• Courtney, Steve “The Beginnings of The Hartford House, Part II”
• Courtney, Steve “The Handsomest Man That Ever Was: Twain’s Joseph Twichell”
• Csicsila, Joseph, “The Legacy of Lawrence I. Berkove”
• Dawidziak, Mark, “Hal Holbrook: An Appreciation, An Obituary, A Remembrance, A Friendship”
• Dawidziak, Mark, “Mark Dawidziak Celebrates Will Vinton, Oscar-Winning Director, producer, and Revolutionary Animator”
• Dawidziak, Mark, “The Impact & Importance of Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight!“
• DeMarco, Laura, “Wild To Move: Mark Twain in Cleveland”
• DeRusha, Courtney,“At Home With Susan Crane (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Dierckx, Hiedi, “Elmira Archaeology Students Explore Mystery Structure at Quarry Farm”
• Douglass, Frederick, “The Lessons of Emancipation to The New Generation”
• Driscoll, Kerry, “Kerry Driscoll Discusses The Inspiration for Her New Book, Based on Research That Began at Elmira College in 1986”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “A Connecticut Yankee in the New Gilded Age”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “A Tragic Spring for Joe Twichell”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “An Amazing Job: Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain & President…Garfield”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “An Unlikely Patron of Civil Rights Jurisprudence”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “Dave Chappelle, Richard Pryor, & The Mark Twain Prize”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “Dreaming India The Marvelous & Mark Twain’s Mysterious Stranger”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “Happy Halloween!: Twain’s Favorite Ghost Story and Twain Speaks from the Netherworld”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “Mark Twain, The Mason: Anticipating The Premiere of Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem“
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “Never In A Hurry To Believe: The Theology of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn“
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “Of Walls & Wangdoodles”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “‘One of the Best Men I Have Ever Known’: Mark Twain’s Friendship with Rev. Thomas K. Beecher”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “Remembering Reverend Conway: Mark Twain’s Second Favorite Clergyman”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “Scrub Angels and Practical Cats at Quarry Farm”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “‘That Friendless Child’s Noise Would Make You Glad’: Unremembered Slaves on Frederick Douglass Day”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “The Alternative Facts of 1863: Mark Twain’s ‘A Bloody Massacre Near Carson’”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “The ‘Earthiness’ of Mark Twain in Western Film & TV”
• Eutsey, Dwayne, “The Mugwump Bump: Mark Twain, Independent Politics, & The Election of 1884”
• Ezell, Kaine, “The Android & The Icon: Mark Twain’s Appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation“
• Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, “A Bouquet of Birthday Wishes from Mark Twain Scholars to Hal Holbrook on His 94th Birthday: What ‘Mark Twain Tonight!’ Means to Us”
• Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, “Hal Holbrook’s Timeless Gift: The Performance of A Lifetime”
• Gardaphe, Fred, “Living Literature: My Stay At Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Garvey, Ellen Gruber,“How Mark Twain Supported Women’s Suffrage”
• Garvey, Ellen Gruber, “Who Tells The Story?: The Scrapbook of Warner McGuinn, A Civil Rights Activist in Mark Twain’s Shadow”
• Gilbert, Christopher, “The U.S. in a Comic Looking Glass: Caricature & National Character”
• Harris, Susan K., “Elmira Girl Marries Hannibal Boy Courtship of Sam and Livy (And the Rest Is Literary History)”
• Harris, Susan K., “ Mark Twain, Suffragette Ally & Overprotective Father”
• Harris, Susan K., “Quarry Farm, A Thank You Note (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Hellwig, Harold H., “150 years of Innocents Abroad: The American Vandal in Venice”
• Hernandez, Aleksandra, “Reflections on The Uses of Disgust in Twain’s Animal Stories (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Heryford, Ryan, “Harvesting: A Thank You To Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Hood, Clifton, “Quarrying the Twain Research Library (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Howard, Mallory, “Fellowship, Friendship, & Felines…Oh My! (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Howe, Larry, “Black Lives Matter at Quarry Farm”
• Howe, Larry, “April in Elmira & Redding (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Jao, Charline, “Joking Aside: Jon Stewart & The Mark Twain Prize”
• Johnson-Schmidt, Elise, “CMTS Obtains Historically Relevant Furniture For Quarry Farm Porch”
• Jordan, Steve, “A Feeble Salute To Mark Twain” (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Jyothinagaram, Maya and Emilia Murphy, “To The Country Sitting In Darkness: Mark Twain’s Satirical Debate On American Diplomacy”
• Kassam, Hamada,“Mark Twain in Damascus: A Quest for Immortality”
• Kassam, Hamada, “Tom Sawyer Had A Dream and It Shot Him”
• Kather, Jan, “Mark Twain & Controversial Art”
• Kather, Jan, “‘The Obscenest Picture The World Possesses’: A Twainian Homage to John Berger, George Michael, David Bowie, Prince”
• Ketterer, David,“Recalling ‘Epoch-Eclipse & Apocalypse’ & Anticipating August 21 Eclipse”
• Ladd, Barbara, “Writing & Discovery at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Lemak, Joe, “C19 Podcast Focuses on John W. Jones, important Elmira historical figure”
• Lemak, Joe,“Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago – January 1871 – Buffalo – Twain Accused of Plagiarism”
• Lemak, Joe, “CMTS Launches the Quarry Farm Preservation Campaign – And Needs You!”
• Lemak, Joe, “Mark Twain Day By Day: The Day Mark Twain Defended A Serial Killer”
• Lieberman, Jennifer L., “The Shocking Truth About Mark Twain’s Fascination with Electricity”
• Lovell, Cindy, “Host of Hannibal: A Tribute to Henry Sweets”
• Mark Twain Circle of America, “Mark Twain Circle of America Issues Statement of Solidarity With Protesters Against Police Brutality”
• McCall, Corey,“Adorno’s Tom Sawyer”
• McLaughlin, Don James, “Germ: A Growing Point. A Bud. (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• McNemee, Deborah Eades, “Twain for Teachers: Why not Mark Twain’s “A Medieval Romance”?
• Melton, Jeffrey, “An Ode to The Innocents Abroad“
• Melton, Jeffrey, “Athens By Moonlight: Mark Twain Tours Ancient Greece In The Innocents Abroad“
• Michelson, Bruce, Michelson, Bruce, “The Mad Monk & Not-So-Distant Mirror of Mark Twain (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Millard, Frances, “Quarry Farm Carpet Leaves for Thirty Years, Goes to Turkey, and Comes Back Home”
• Morris, Linda A.,“The Quietest Place (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Muller, John, Muller, John, “A Tale of Today: Mark Twain on Impeachment”
• Nance, Sarah, “On Top of the Hill: Losing and Living at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Neider, Charles, “Mark Twain & The Russians: An Exchange of Views”
• Obenzinger, Hilton, “Getting Innocent”
• Pascal, John, “Twain for Teachers: 88 Days In the Mother Lode Documentary”
• Pascal John, “Twain for Teachers: Mark Your Own Patent Medicine”
• Pasqualina, Stephen, “Mark Twain’s Modernism”
• Pasqualina, Stephen,“Visions of History at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Pfeffer, Miki, “Grace King: The Clemens Family’s Friend From New Orleans”
• Pfeffer, Miki,“Through A Southern Woman Writer’s Eyes: Seeing the Man in A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain’s Court: Letters from Grace King’s New England Sojourns“
• Rankin, Alan, “Finding the Lost Diaries of Mark Twain’s Granddaughter, Nina Gabrilowitsch”
• Rankin, Alan,“Six Degrees of Samuel Clemens (A Quarry Farm Testimonial”
• Reesman, Jeanne Campbell, “From Innocent to India: Mark Twain’s Evolving Sympathies”
• Reigstad, Thomas, Reigstad, Thomas, “Mark Twain’s Father-in-Law’s Monopoly: A Breif History of the J.Langdon Coal Company”
• Reigstad, Thomas, “New Documentary Focuses on Twain’s Time in Buffalo”
• Rice, Laura, “No Place Like Home (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Roark, Jarrod, “Gallows Without Humor: How I Mined Mark Twain’s Western Violence”
• Schmidt, Barbara, “Mark Twain, Mad Magazine, & Old Crow Whiskey”
• Schocken, Merav, “On Material Sanctity (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Seybold, Matt, “150 Years Ago Mark Twain Celebrated New Year’s Eve By Debating How Drunk He Had Been During The Preceding Year & Listening to Charles Dickens Read David Copperfield With His Future Wife”
• Seybold, Matt, “150 Years of Mark Twain in Elmira: Dickens Holidays, The Gospel of Revolt & The Quarry Farm Style”
• Seybold, Matt, “150 Years of The Revised Catechism”
• Seybold, Matt,“A Loving & Clairvoyant Parasite: George Steiner in ‘The Archives of Eden’”
• Seybold, Matt, “A Mark Twain Studies Primer”
• Seybold, Matt, “Ah Shucks, Satan!: Mark Twain’s Style, Quantified”
• Seybold, Matt, “Amy Kaplan & The McDonaldization of Mark Twain”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Blue Jays Play Their Home Opener On The Site of Mark Twain’s Buffalo Boarding House”
• Seybold, Matt, “Broken Idol: An Encomium for Hal Bush”
• Seybold, Matt, “Brutal Things Must Be Said: James Baldwin on Huckleberry Finn“
• Seybold, Matt, “Buried In The Rose Garden, And The Coroner Notified: Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal, & the Electoral Burlesque”
• Seybold, Matt, “‘Buy It, Laugh, & Grow Fat’: The 1869 Reviews of Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad“
• Seybold, Matt, “Death at Christmastime: Mark Twain & The Music of Merciful Release”
• Seybold, Matt, “Drinking with Twain: A Rare Manuscript”
• Seybold, Matt, “Even If He Weren’t My Friend: Frederick Douglass & Mark Twain”
• Seybold, Matt,“Hanging The Crane in Hartford: Mark Twain’s 39th Birthday”
• Seybold, Matt, “In Memory of Noted Twain Scholar, Carl Dolmetsch”
• Seybold, Matt, “Life, In Arbitrage (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)”
• Seybold, Matt,“Life, In Purgatory (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)”
• Seybold, Matt,“Mark Twain in Elmira: A Short Film”
• Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain: Lovesick at Christmas”
• Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain: Santa Claus Impersonator”
• Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, & The Nadirs of U.S. Electoral History”
• Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain Wishes ‘A Happy New Year” with 1876 Postcard”
• Seybold, Matt,“Mark Twain’s 43rd Thanksgiving”
• Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain’s Portfolio: Existential Hedging & The United Fruit Company”
• Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain’s Portfolio: Hell-Hound Rogers, Anaconda Copper, & The Spider Aristocracy of Finance”
• Seybold, Matt, “Mark Twain’s ‘The War Prayer’ Excites 21st-Century Artists & Activists”
• Seybold, Matt, “Neoliberal Rationality in The Old Gilded Age: Introductory Address at 2018 Quarry Farm Symposium”
• Seybold, Matt, “On April 21st, Easter Sunday…”
• Seybold, Matt, “‘Put the Reader through Hell’: In Memory of Toni Morrison, Twain Scholar”
• Seybold, Matt, “Sam & Livy Clemens: Married & Buried in Elmira”
• Seybold, Matt, “Silent Work in Elmira: Letters from the Wilbur H. Siebert Underground Railroad Collection”
• Seybold, Matt, “#StagecoachLife: 150 Years of Mark Twain’s Roughing It“
• Seybold, Matt, “Teachers Convene at Quarry Farm and Elmira College to Discuss Mark Twain and Generation Z”
• Seybold, Matt, “Thanksgiving at Quarry Farm, 1897”
• Seybold, Matt, “Thanksgiving Steeple-Jumping: The Sesquicentennial of Mark Twain’s ‘Conditional’ Engagement”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Not Just for English Majors”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘America is Built on a Tilt And Everything Loose Slides to California’ (Plus Things Mark Twain Really Said About California!)”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘Golf Is A Good Walk Spoiled’”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘I Have Never Let Schooling Interfere With My Education’”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘If Voting Made Any Difference, They Wouldn’t Let Us Do It’”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘If You Don’t Read The Newspaper, You’re Uninformed. If You Do, You’re Misinformed”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘It Is Easier To Con A Man Than To Convince Him He Has Been Conned’”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘It’s Not The Size of the Dog In The Fight, But The Size of The Fight In The Dog”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘Kindness Is Language The Deaf Can Hear”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘Politicians Are Like Diapers’”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: Ron Chernow’s Encomium to the American Press at the White House Correspondents Dinner Ends on a False Note”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘The Things You Didn’t Do”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘The Two Most Important Days of Your Life…’”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘Things We Know That Just Ain’t So.”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: Tom Wolfe Memorial Edition”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘When The Rich Rob The Poor, It’s Called Business”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Apocryphal Twain: ‘Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.’”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Benediction of A Kiss This Christmas Morning”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Best Defense Is A Good Offense: False Virtue, Fake News, & Mark Twain’s Birthday Roast of Ben Franklin”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Calculated Incivility of Anson Burlingame, The Only Congressman Mark Twain Could Tolerate”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Fickle Affections of The Elmira Advertiser for Frederick Douglass”
• Seybold, Matt, “‘The Gospel of Revolt: Mark Twain in Elmira’: An Episode of the C19: America In the Nineteenth Century Podcast, Featuring Hal Holbrook”
• Seybold, Matt, “‘The Greatest Showman’ vs. ‘The World’s Greatest Laughmaker’”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Nastiest Things Mark Twain Said About Teddy Roosevelt”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Park Church Culture Into Which Mark Twain Married: An Introduction to ‘Mark Twain’s Music Box’”
• Seybold, Matt, “‘The Texan Steer’: A Rediscovered Sketch by Mark Twain?”
• Seybold, Matt, “The Twain Doctrine”
• Seybold, Matt, “‘The White House Funeral’ by Mark Twain”
• Seybold, Matt, “Twain for Teachers: Huckleberry Finn in the Era of Resurgent Bigotry”
• Seybold, Matt, “What Was Mark Twain Doing The Last Time The Cubs Won The World Series?”
• Seybold, Matt, “You Could Get Bookings: A Review of Holbrook/Twain“
• Shannon, Edward, “Away from the Feuds at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Sharlow, Gretchen, “‘Adieu, Dear Friend’: A Tribute to Victor Doyno, The First Quarry Farm Fellow”
• Silver, Ariel, “Searching For Even In Twain’s Garden of Eden (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Stanleigh, Andy, “The Untold Story of the Making of the Fantastical, Historically Inaccurate, Adventurous, and Mysterious Mark Twain’s Niagara, Book 1 Graphic Novel”
• Sugimura, Atsushi, “‘I Killed Thirty-Eight Persons’: Sam Clemens & The Sioux Wars, 1862-1876”
• Thompson, Todd N., “Writing, Roosting, Roistering: Two Weeks at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)
• Trombley, Laura Skandera, “A Disturbing Passion?: Mark Twain & The Angelfish”
• Trombley, Laura Skandera, “‘Mark Twain & Libation’: A Talk by The 2017 Louis J. Budd Award Winner”
• Trombley, Laura Skandera, “Quarry Farm Redux (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Turim-Nygren, Mika, “Twainadventures: Life & Learning at Quarry Farm (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)”
• Various Scholars, “Twain Scholars Pay Tribute to Hal Holbrook & Mark Twain Tonight!“
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: A House of Fiction”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: A Tree Named Lewis”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: Autumn Arrives”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: Distance Lends Enchantment to The View”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: Huck! Speak Up. We Need You.”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: I’m Lookin Out The Window Again”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: It’s Definitely The Cat”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: Sympathetic Funk”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: The Allium”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: The Cat, Plays Bass.”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: The First Snow”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: The Last Cigar of the Next Caretaker”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: The New Guy”
• Webb, Steve, “Dispatches from Quarry Farm: The Quadrennial”
• Williams, Nathaniel, “Gears & God: What Powered Twain’s Speculative Fiction?”
• VanDette, Emily, “Celebrity Authors for A Cause: The Anti-Vivisection Connection between Mark Twain & Elizabeth Stuart Phelps”
• Young, Melissa Scholes, “The Crane House Speaks (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)