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…

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…

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…

Grace King: The Clemens Family’s Friend from New Orleans

…Women’s Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. Trombley, Laura Skandera. Mark Twain in the Company of Women. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997….

Grace King: A Southern Woman of Letters

…————. Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women’s Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. Trombley, Laura Skandera. Mark Twain in…

Past Quadrennial Conferences and Symposia

…Driscoll and Ann Ryan. The keynote address, “Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Michael Honey,” was given by Laura Skandera Trombley. The following papers were in the Peterson Chapel in Historic Cowles Hall…