#StagecoachLife: 150 Years of Mark Twain’s Roughing It
Mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Mark Twain’s Roughing It by joining a discussion of the book with CMTS’s resident scholar.
Tag: Roughing It
The “Earthiness” of Mark Twain in Western Film & TV
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.
Annual Twain Symposium Celebrates 150 years of ROUGHING IT and Twain in the American West
Check out the keynote address and all the paper presentations!
Lecture on Twain’s complicated view of the Hawaiian landscape now available
Ryan Heryford is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature in the Department of English at California State University, East Bay
The Apocryphal Twain: “America is built on a tilt and everything loose slides to California.” (Plus Things Mark Twain Really Said About California!)
Is Mark Twain really responsible for this aphorism about curiously unhinged Californians?
CFP: Special Issue of Mark Twain Annual & 2019 Quarry Farm Symposium – “Mark Twain & the Natural World”
CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE: MARK TWAIN AND THE NATURAL WORLD The Mark Twain Annual is seeking article-length submissions that examine aspects of Twain’s work that comment on the relation between human beings and the natural world. This broad scope allows for critical examinations of Twain’s writing about the natural world in any number of ways: as nature writing; as a form of environmentalism; as commentary on animal welfare, […]
The Legacy of Lawrence I. Berkove (Courtesy of Mark Twain Journal)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We were saddened to learn this past weekend of the passing of Lawrence I. Berkove, a former Quarry Farm Fellow, Trouble Begins lecturer, and frequent guest of Elmira College and Friend of CMTS. With permission from the Mark Twain Journal, we are pleased to reprint this essay, written for the occasion of Prof. Berkove being named a Legacy Scholar in 2014 by his former student, colleague, and longtime collaborator, Joe […]
Twain in Hawaii is the focus of the next Trouble Begins Lecture
Elmira, New York — The spring portion of the 2017-2018 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies, continues Wednesday, May 23 in Cowles Hall, Elmira College. The lecture begins at 7:00 p.m., and is free and open to the public. The third lecture, “An American Cannibal at Home: Comic Diplomacy in Mark Twain’s Hawai’i” will be presented by Todd Nathan Thompson from the Indiana University of […]
Spring 2017 “Trouble Begins” Series Continues with Plaque Dedication and Twain Lecture
The 2016-2017 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series continues May 3 at Quarry Farm with the lecture and a special plaque dedication ceremony honoring the recent designation of Quarry Farm as a New York Literary Landmark. The ceremony and lecture is free and open to the public. The evening begins with tours of the grounds at 5:00 p.m., followed by the plaque dedication and light refreshments. The Trouble Begins lecture begins at 7:00 p.m. in the Barn at Quarry Farm […]