Mark Twain in Elmira: A Short Film
Created for Summer Orientation at Elmira College, a concise introduction to Mark Twain’s historical connections with the Elmira community.
Tag: Mark Twain
The Apocryphal Twain: “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.”
The search for the origin of this popular aphorism run through Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Bear” Bryant, and the B&O railroad!?!
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
Why Trust in Antitrust? with Sanjukta Paul & Marshall Steinbaum
Final episode of second season of The American Vandal Podcast focuses on antitrust in Mark Twain’s Gilded Age and our own.
Generation Z, Mark Twain’s Poetry, & Teaching English From East Texas To Harvard with Jocelyn Chadwick
New episode of American Vandal preview Summer Teachers Institute.
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 […]
Mark Twain, Journalism, & The Search for Genus Americanus with Loren Ghiglione, Alyssa Karas, & Dan Tham
Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | CastBox | ListenNotes In 2011, a Northwestern journalism professor invited two graduating students to join him for a three-month road trip. They loosely followed the path set by Mark Twain and it took them to 38 states, covering over 14,000 miles. Interviewing other journalists, scholars, immigrants, nomads, and many others, they were looking for what John Steinbeck had called Genus Americanus, or “what was uniquely American about Americans.” They reported their trip […]
Exterminate All The Brutes with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Andrew Hoberek, & Ignacio Sanchez Prado
New episode of The American Vandal Podcast focuses on Raoul Peck’s HBO documentary series.
Special Episode of The American Vandal Podcast Dedicated To Twain Scholar, Hal Bush
Fellow Twainiacs read aloud to friend and colleague, Hal Bush, as he recovers from a severe brain injury.
The Suez Canal, #Stuckboat, & The Sinews of War and Trade with Laleh Khalili
On the past, present, & future of the Suez Canal.