Close Reading Feudalism(s) in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with James Phelan (A Project Narrative Crossover)
James Phelan and Matt Seybold read and discuss the Shepherdsons and Grangerfords episode.
Tag: Huckleberry Finn
Unlearning Racism: What Roles Can Works By Mark Twain Play in An Anti-Racist Pedagogy?
A wonderful essay by Shelley Fisher Fishkin originally published in the Japanese literary journal, Mark Twain Studies.
Inaugural Mark Twain Circle Emerging Scholar Award Goes To Mika Turim-Nygren
For her article “Mark Twain’s Modernism” in J19.
Excerpt from Special Forum On Global Huck in Journal of Transnational American Studies
Last week The Journal of Transnational American Studies published a Special Forum on Global Huck: Mapping the Cultural Work of Translations of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The forum features ten essays and two bibliographic appendixes exploring the translation and reception of Twain’s novel is a wide range of cultural contexts. The Center For Mark Twain Studies is excited to share an excerpt from the editorial introduction to the […]
Teaching With Tension & The Illusion of Postracialism with Philathia Bolton, Cassander Smith, & Lee Bebout
Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | CastBox | ListenNotes A new episode of The American Vandal Podcast features the co-editors of Teaching With Tension: Race, Resistance, & Reality in The Classrooom (Northwestern, 2019). In their introduction to this collection, they write that the book “advances pedagogical scholarship by examining the discourse of race in a particular cultural moment when the idea of postraciality and color-blind logics […]
Unsealing the Archive of T.S. Eliot’s Love Letters to Emily Hale
In 2020, Princeton unsealed an archive left behind by a fairly anonymous teacher and dramatist with a very famous friend…
Project Huckleberry (a.k.a. The Mandalorian)
New episode of The American Vandal Podcast focuses on The Mandalorian and Twainian SciFi
2021 Season of The American Vandal Podcast Begins With “The Myths of Reconstruction in the Wake of Insurrection”
Brook Thomas discusses the myths of Reconstruction on new episode of The American Vandal.
Buried In The Rose Garden, And The Coroner Notified: Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal, & the Electoral Burlesque
In 1992, Gore Vidal used Mark Twain’s characters to allegorize what he believed might be the last U.S. presidential election.
CMTS Announces the 2019 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series
All CMTS lectures are open to the public at no cost.