This year’s American Literature Association Annual Conference will be held in Cambridge, MA. The Mark Twain Circle will sponsor a plenary session, a panel, and a business meeting.
Plenary Session: Mark Twain Whither Thou Goest?
Chair:
Michael J. Kiskis, Elmira College
Participants:
§ Laura Skandera-Trombley, Coe
College
§ John Bird, Winthrop University
§ Ann Ryan, LeMoyne College
§ Gary Scharnhorst, University
of New Mexico
§ Tom Quirk, University of
Missouri
Panel: "Distance lends enchantment to the
view": Uncovering Mark Twain
Chair: Tom
Quirk, University of Missouri
Papers:
§ Louis J. Budd (Duke
University), "Mark Twain Sounds Off on the Fourth of July"
§ Neil Schmitz (SUNY, Buffalo),
"Mark Twain, Traitor"
§ Paul Sorrentino (Virginia Tech), "Mark Twain's 1902
Visit to Missouri"
§ Gerry Brenner (University of
Montana), "Through Another Looking-Glass: The Complex (Self-)Satires of
Twain's 'A Fable.'"