The Trouble Begins Lecture Archives

…with Mark Twain” (May 20, 2020 – Online) Laura Skandera Trombley, “Riding with Mark Twain” (May 27, 2020 – Online) Lecture Images Lawrence Howe, “Scandal at Stormfield: Mark Twain’s ‘Ashcroft-Lyon…

A Mark Twain Studies Primer

…well as her own fresh perspective.   Mark Twain in the Company of Women (1994) by Laura Skandera-Trombley While critical debates about gender in Twain’s life and work haven’t the…

From The Study (Index)

…(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…

Michael J. Kiskis Quarry Farm Fellowship

…the North American Review. Second Edition, with a new introduction. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. February, 2010. Constructing Mark Twain:  New Directions in Scholarship.  Eds. Michael J. Kiskis and Laura Skandera-Trombley. Columbia: University…

Livy Clemens & Mark Twain’s Moment of Enlightenment

…Beecher and Isabella Beecher Hooker who, as Laura Skandera-Trombley describes, “were dynamic, intelligent, unapologetic, as well as committed feminists – women who had rejected the purely domestic sphere in favor…

History

…Driscoll, Saint Joseph University, the Symposium featured twelve scholarly papers and a Keynote Address by Laura Skandera Trombley, Pitzer College President and Mark Twain Scholar. August 1-3, 2013 The Center…

Contributors

…Gretchen Sharlow, CMTS Director Emerita, Elmira College Atsushi Sugimura, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tokyo Laura Skandera Trombley, President, University of Bridgeport Steve Webb, Quarry Farm Caretaker, Elmira College Nathaniel Williams,…