Call For Papers

The Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies announces the First Call for Papers for Elmira 2001: The 4th International Conference on The State of Mark Twain Studies, August 16-18, 2001.

Ten page papers suitable for twenty-minute presentations are invited on the following topics:

· Mark Twain and Visual Representation (May include films, posters, television shows, documentaries, cartoons, illustrations)

· Mark Twain and the Body (May include bodies in pain, the racialized body, the gendered body, the sexualized body, transformed bodies)

· Mark Twain and Status (May include economic class, social class, racial class, manners, titles, behaviors)

· Mark Twain and the Nation (May include civic identities, racial identities, hybrid identities, nationalism, imperialism, exceptionalism)

· Global Mark Twain (Mark Twain in countries other than the United States. How is Mark Twain used in other countries?)

· Mark Twain: Friends and Enemies (Loyalties to and animosities toward his contemporaries)

· Mark Twain: Narrative Strategies (May include structure, persona, voice, closure)

· Mark Twain in Pieces (May include short stories, maxims, fragments, letters, sketches, speeches)

· Mark Twain: 1900–1910 (May include biography, works, crusades, self‑imaging)

· Mark Twain in His Funniest (. . .)

Papers will be read by juries without knowledge of authorship.

Send papers in duplicate to:

Gretchen Sharlow, Director

The Center for Mark Twain Studies

Elmira College

One Park Place

Elmira, NY 14901

Deadline: January 31, 2001