Sheri-Marie Harrison concludes the 2021 Trouble Begins Lecture Series
Harrison discusses Twain’s anti-sentimentality and contemporary African American satire
Tag: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Fall ‘Trouble Begins’ Lecture Series Continues Oct. 27
Lecture begins at 7pm in person at the Quarry Farm Barn
CMTS Announces the 2021 Fall Trouble Begins Lectures
Lectures will be in-person at Quarry Farm and online. Check out the schedule to learn more.
Mika Turim-Nygren’s Park Church Lecture is now available
Turim-Nygren posits that Twain gives Huck a “truly American” literary language that overcomes racial divisions
New Documentary focuses on Twain’s Time in Buffalo
For over three decades I poked around in the area of Twain’s connection to my hometown, Buffalo, NY. I spent countless hours in the Grosvenor Room of the Central Library in downtown Buffalo flipping through pages of the over one hundred volumes of the Local History and Local Biographies scrapbooks, taking notes from pasted newspaper clippings that contained relevant information. I read and cross-referenced entries in Buffalo City Directories of […]
Relive Twain’s Summer of 1884 with the Final Lecture of the “Trouble Begins” 2018 Season
The fall portion of the 2018-2019 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies, concludes Wednesday, November 7 when presenter John Bird takes the audience through Twain’s summer of 1884 at Quarry Farm. The final fall lecture begins at 7:00 p.m. in the Barn at Quarry Farm. The lecture is free and open to the public. Bird, emeritus professor of English at Winthrop University, will […]
Dwayne Eutsey’s Talk Focuses on Joseph Twichell’s Sermons at Elmira’s Park Church
The 2018 Mark Twain Lecture Series, hosted by the Chemung County Historical Society and the Center for Mark Twain Studies, concludes on Thursday, August 23 at the Chemung Valley Museum (415 East Water St., Elmira). The lecture begins at 7:00 p.m., and is free and open to the public. “Never Be in a Hurry to Believe”: How Joe Twichell’s Visits to Elmira and Cornell May Have Saved Huck Finn’s Soul” Dwayne […]
Mark Twain Forum Reviews: The Ballad of Huck & Miguel by Tim DeRoche
Editor’s Note: CMTS is proud to partner with the Mark Twain Forum, which has long been a leading venue for reviews of new publications in Mark Twain Studies. Visit their extensive archive. Follow the link at the bottom of the page to read the complete review. A portion of Amazon purchases made via links from Mark Twain Forum Book Reviews is donated to the Mark Twain Project. The Ballad of Huck & […]
Twain Scholar Ben Click Concludes the Spring 2018 Trouble Begins Series
The spring portion of the 2018 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies, continues Wednesday, May 30 in Cowles Hall, Elmira College. The lecture begins at 7:00 p.m., and is free and open to the public. The fourth and final lecture, “My Penchant for Silence: Mark Twain’s Rhetorical Art of the Unspoken” will be given by Ben Click, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. There is […]
When Will WE Listen? Mark Twain Through the Lenses of Generation Z
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Duluth Public School District in Minnesota recently decided to drop two novels from their curriculum, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird. Jocelyn Chadwick, current President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and a former Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, is both an expert on secondary education in the U.S. and an acclaimed scholar of Mark Twain, having authored The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn. She […]