Griffin’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available
PUDDN’HEAD WILSON is one of the most taught and scrutinized Twain texts in the 21st century. Griffin discusses the challenges of editing the seminal work.
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Fall ‘Trouble Begins’ Lecture Series Begins October 2
Lecture is Wednesday, October 2 at 7:00pm in the Quarry Farm Barn.
Next Trouble Begins Discusses Charles Chesnutt and Mark Twain
Rafael Walker (Baruch College) will deliver his lecture on Wednesday, May 13 at 7:00pm in the Quarry Farm Barn
Fielder’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available
Brigitte Fielder explores the character of Roxy, the mixed-race Black mother, who changes her child’s place with the child of her enslaver
Next Trouble Begins Lecture Deals with Motherhood in Puddn’head Wilson
Brigitte Fielder’s (University of Wisconsin-Madison) lecture will take place on Wednesday, May 8 at 7:00pm in the Quarry Farm Barn
Mark Twain Forum Reviews: “Pudd’nhead Wilson: Manuscript and Revised Versions, with “Those Extraordinary Twins”
Barbara Schmidt reviews the new edition of one of Twain’s most well-known texts
Unlearning Racism: What Roles Can Works By Mark Twain Play in An Anti-Racist Pedagogy?
A wonderful essay by Shelley Fisher Fishkin originally published in the Japanese literary journal, Mark Twain Studies.
Park Church Lecture Series Begins This Wednesday
The 2018 Park Church Lecture Series, hosted by the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, begins Wednesday, June 13 in the historic and cultural landmark, The Park Church, 208 W. Gray Street, Elmira. The lecture begins at 7:00 p.m., and is free and open to the public. The first lecture, “Fingerprints and Microbe Time: Mark Twain and Scientific Skepticism,” is presented by James W. Leonard, adjunct English professor with The […]
Trouble Begins Lecture Series Continues With A Discussion on Race, Law, and Satire
The spring portion of the 2017-2018 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies, continues Wednesday, May 16 in The Barn at Quarry Farm. The lecture begins at 7:00 p.m., and is free and open to the public. The second lecture, “Raising the Bar: Satirizing Law in Puddn’head Wilson and The Sellout” will be presented by Rebecca Nisetich from the Honors Program at University of Southern Maine. This lecture explores […]
CMTS announces the Spring 2018 “Trouble Begins” Lineup
The Spring 2018 Trouble Begins” Lecture Series Previous “Trouble Begins” lectures can be found and downloaded in the “Trouble Begins Archives” or by clicking here. Wednesday, March 21 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus 7 p.m. “Mark Twain: Travelin’ Man” Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, media critic, and New York Times best selling author Mark Twain’s prodigious travels around his region, then the nation, and then the world, have […]