Mark Twain at the Turn-of-the Century -- 1890-1910

A Stanford-UC Santa Cruz Symposium

Friday, May 14 at Stanford

10:00 - 12:00, Terrace Room

Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg. 460

Karen Lystra, Professor of English, CSU Fullerton on "'Telling the Truth is the funniest joke in the world': Reevaluating the Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript".

David Lionel Smith, Professor of English, Williams College on "Mark Twain, Pretexts, and Iconoclasm".

2:00 - 4:00, Levinthal Hall

Stanford Humanities Center

John Carlos Rowe, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine on "Mark Twain's Critique of Globalization (Old and New) in 'Following the Equator: A Journey around the World'".

Forrest G. Robinson, Professor of American Studies, UC Santa Cruz on "The General and the Maid: Mark Twain on Ulysses S. Grant and Joan of Arc".

Saturday, May 15 at UC Santa Cruz

9:30-12:30, Cowell College Conference Room

Gregg Camfield, Professor of English, University of the Pacific

“In the Mirror of the Imagination: Twain’s Kipling”

http://english.stanford.edu/FMPro?-db=personnel2.fp5&;-format=bio.html&-sortfield=lastname&SortField=FirstName&-max=2147483647&-recid=32805&-findall="> Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Professor of English and Director of American Studies,

Stanford University

“Mark Twain and the Jews”

http://english.stanford.edu/FMPro?-db=personnel2.fp5&;-format=bio.html&-sortfield=lastname&SortField=FirstName&-max=2147483647&-recid=73&-findall="> Hilton Obenzinger, Associate Director of Honors Writing and Lecturer in English, Stanford University

“Better Dreams: Political Satire and Twain’s Final ‘Exploding’ Novel”

2:30-5:30, Cowell College Conference Room

Peter Messent, Professor of American Literature, University of Nottingham, England

“Mark Twain, Manhood, the H.H.Rogers Friendship, and ‘Which Was the Dream?’”

Susan Gillman, Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz

“Mark Twain’s Occult Time”

Moderator for both days: Edgar A. Dryden

Editor, The Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literatures, Culture and Theory