A conversation about the personal essay boom, memoir, social media, the style of “too late capitalism,” and other self-indulgences with two decorated literary critics and theorists.
A ranging conversation about platform capitalism from the perspective of gigworkers.
“The World’s Work,” a new season of The American Vandal Podcast, kicks off with discussion of the labor of Higher Education.
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 […]
Inspired by Joel Coen’s description of Mark Twain’s influence on The Big Lebowski, Dwayne Eutsey catalogs some Twain’s appearances in 20th century cinema.
Get rich. Dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.
Jillian Spivey Caddell (University of Kent) talks about her time at Quarry Farm and the inspiration of a simple table
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.”
Ryan Heryford is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature in the Department of English at California State University, East Bay
The future of the English Department cannot be the same as its past.
