CFP: Mark Twain Circle at 2025 MLA in New Orleans, LA (January 9-12)
CFP deadline is March 15, 2024
CFP deadline is March 15, 2024
CFP Deadline is March 15, 2023.
Deadline for submissions is Monday, March 21, 2021
CFP deadline is March 1, 2021.
CFP deadline is March 16, 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 […]
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 […]