Hawai’i (Mark Twain’s Time in Hawai’i)

…his Hawai‘i letters reinvents the travel letter by merging the antebellum comic tradition of mock travel letters, exemplified by Seba Smith’s Major Jack Downing, with the highbrow style of travel

Mark Twain Forum Reviews: Twain at Sea, edited by Eric Paul Roorda

…of his major travel books. More general accounts of his travels and travel writings form an entire genre. A representative sampling of the latter are Charles Neider’s Travels of Mark…

150 Years of Innocents Abroad: The American Vandal in Venice

…by Twain scholars who have done extensive research and writing about the travel book and the voyage it describes. “Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen…

Center for Mark Twain Studies Offers Travel Grant for “Humor in America 2018” in Chicago

…is offering a $500 grant to support travel and registration for a graduate student or emerging scholar presenting at the conference. The award will be distributed to eligible participants selected…

Past Quadrennial Conferences and Symposia

and Other Tales of Foreign Travel (Union Square Press, 2009). Second CMTS Symposium “en route: Mark Twain’s Travel Books: A Tramp Abroad and Following the Equator“ October 15 and Ocotber 16, 2010 Quarry…

2019 Quarry Farm Fellows

travel writing in Chapter 4, “Pacific in Repose: Genial Travel Writing and the Lure of the Polynesia,” which focuses on the centrality of comic geniality to Americans’ visions of the…

Athens By Moonlight: Mark Twain Tours Ancient Greece in The Innocents Abroad

…(read Athens) is special. One passage from a traveler a decade before Twain’s travels can provide a fair representation of the disinterest tourists on the whole had for any current…

Twain for Teachers: Huckleberry Finn in an Era of Resurgent Bigotry

A recent issue of NCTE’s English Journal includes a Special Section on “Teaching Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The editors open the section by acknowledging it “may offend some readers” and