Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies

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Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies

The Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies is dedicated to fostering and supporting scholarship

The Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies is dedicated to fostering and supporting scholarship and pedagogy related to various aspects of Mark Twain, including, but not limited to, his family, associates, influences, and reception. The Center’s responsibilities include (1) management of Quarry Farm, a scholar’s retreat, (2) the Mark Twain Study and Exhibit, the destination of thousands of t

ourists every year, (3) the Mark Twain Archive, the home of a number of book collections and photograph assemblages dedicated to Mark Twain and his circle, and (4) the facilitation and sponsorship of a number of events, including symposia, lectures, teaching institutes, and the Quadrennial International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies, the world’s largest scholarly conference focusing on Mark Twain. The purpose of the Center is to serve an international community of amatuer and professional scholars and educators, as well as local and regional community members and organizations, by promoting and preserving the legacy of Twain and his deep connection to Elmira.

05/11/2026

2026 "PORTRAYING MARK TWAIN" ART COMPETITION WINNERS

For the tenth year the Center for Mark Twain Studies has sponsored the "Portraying Mark Twain" art competition for all Elmira College students. Five final images were selected from twenty-five submissions that represented Mark Twain, his literature, or aspects of his life in Elmira and Quarry Farm. The winners are Jade Madill '27, Kate Forsythe '26, Amani Wandolo '26, Akira Ducot '28 and Madelynn Dziedzic '28. Their winning entries included four digital collages that altered or combined historic images of Twain with contemporary photos. The fifth entry creatively captured the well known "view from the porch" at Quarry Farm as a bold, graphic watercolor rendering. Look for their images on future promotional materials for CMTS.

12/25/2024

The holiday season was very important to the Clemens family. Sam & Livy’s first date was on New Year’s Eve. They got engaged on Thanksgiving. And both had birthdays in late November.

But the most important occasion for us to mark, took place in the wee hours of Christmas morning 156 years ago, when Mark Twain made a promise without which CMTS might not exist.

But for this promise, made by a famously itinerant and oft-inebriated author in the wee hours of Christmas morning 154 years ago, the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies would not exist.

12/05/2024

CFP Deadline is January 15, 2025.

CFP deadline is January 15, 2025.

11/22/2024

CFP Deadline is November 30, 2024.

CFP deadline is November 30, 2024

11/20/2024

CFP deadline is December 15, 2024.

CFP deadline is December 15, 2024

11/19/2024

Please join the Mark Twain Circle of America for a Zoom discussion of three papers presented at the recent Quarry Farm Symposium "Gilded Ages: Humor, Literature, and Society."

Zoom discussion will take place on Wednesday, November 20 at 4:00pm EST. Click here to learn more.

Zoom discussion takes place Wednesday, November 20 at 4:00pm EST

11/11/2024

Professor Susan K. Harris's notebooks focus on Elmira and the Langdon family in the 1850’s-1860’s. They are a valuable addition to the CMTS Mark Twain Archive.

Click here to learn more about the collection.

Notebooks focus on Elmira and the Langdon family in the 1850’s-1860’s.

11/05/2024

In what has become an Election Day tradition, Matt Seybold writes about Gore Vidal writing about Mark Twain.

On Gore Vidal’s Italian adaptation of Mark Twain’s “To The Person Sitting in Darkness.”

11/04/2024

Webinar takes place on Tuesday, November 12 from Noon to 1pm.

10/31/2024

Last night at Quarry Farm.

Happy Halloween!

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1 Park Place
Elmira, NY
14901

Telephone

(607) 735-1941

Website

http://www.marktwainstudies.org/

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