Editor’s Re:Marks (Introduction to the 2020 Mark Twain Annual)
Ben Click, editor of the Mark Twain Annual, shares his introduction to the 2020 issue, which includes a survey of its contents.
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New Issue of the Mark Twain Circular Now Available
The Mark Twain Circle has also made all past issue of the Circular available online!
CFP: Mark Twain Circle at MLA Conference in Toronto, Canada (January 7-10, 2021)
CFP deadline is March 16, 2020.
CFP: Mark Twain Circle at ALA Conference in San Diego, CA (May 21-24, 2020)
CFP Deadline is January 15, 2020
CFP: Mark Twain Circle at MLA in Seattle, WA (January 9-12, 2020)
“Mark Twain and Globalism” Although Mark Twain is often characterized as a quintessentially American writer, he is almost as frequently noted as a citizen of the world. The Mark Twain Circle seeks proposals for papers that investigate Twain’s writings in a transnational context, interpreting representations of the American and the other in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, international politics, and cultural contact. MLA requires that presenters be members of MLA […]
Call For Papers: “Mark Twain & Gender” at MLA 2019, Sponsored by Mark Twain Circle of America
Although Mark Twain’s writing shows a partiality toward masculine experiences and perspectives, critical scholarship in the last 20 years or so has chipped away at the masculine critical bias. The Mark Twain Circle seeks proposals for papers that pursue these gender investigations further, re-interpreting representations of masculinity, femininity, or cross-dressing in the writings of Mark Twain or the influence of gendered social conventions on the life of Samuel Clemens. We […]