Tag: Mark Twain

Excerpt from Special Forum On Global Huck in Journal of Transnational American Studies

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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 […]

“And that has made all the difference.”: Scaffolding Mark Twain’s Poetry

Posted on by Jocelyn Chadwick & Matt Seybold

Building on work from the Summer Teachers Institute, Jocelyn Chadwick and Matt Seybold discuss using Mark Twain’s comedic verse to prepare students for Robert Frost’s much-anthologized “The Road Not Taken.”

Lecture on Twain’s complicated view of the Hawaiian landscape now available

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Ryan Heryford is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature in the Department of English at California State University, East Bay

Broken Idol: An Encomium For Hal Bush

Posted on by Matt Seybold

Harold K. Bush, known to his friends as Hal, passed away earlier this week after a prolonged and finally unsuccessful recovery from a traumatic brain injury. Hal was a professor at St. Louis University and an acclaimed Twain scholar, probably best known for Mark Twain & The Spiritual Crisis of His Age (2007) and The Letters of Mark Twain & Joseph Hopkins Twichell (2017). His chapter on Twain in Continuing […]

The Invisible Home of Frederick Douglass, John W. Jones, & Mark Twain with Jill Spivey Caddell & Shirley Samuels

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Special Emancipation Week Episode of The American Vandal Podcast!