The Trouble Begins Lecture Archives

…Lecture Images Shirley Samuels, “Witnessing the Civil War: In Elmira with Mark Twain” (May 20, 2020 – Online) Laura Skandera Trombley, “Riding with Mark Twain” (May 27, 2020 – Online)…

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

…in Scholarship.  Eds. Michael J. Kiskis and Laura Skandera-Trombley. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography: The Chapters From the North American Review. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990: with…

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,…