Center For Mark Twain Studies
The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College offers distinctive programs to foster and support Mark Twain scholarship and strengthen the teaching of Mark Twain at all levels. The Center serves the Elmira College community and regional, national, and international students and scholars of Mark Twain. CMTS activities include The Trouble Begins at Eight lecture series, the Quadrennial Conference in Mark Twain Studies, frequent Symposia, and the support of Quarry Farm Fellows. For more information, please visit Elmira.edu.
The Mark Twain Study & Cowles Hall
Quarry Farm Exterior Video & Drone Work
A Tour of Quarry Farm - inside & out
Dwayne Eutsey, “‘I have always preached’: Mark Twain and Liberal Religion”
Caroline Levine, "Collective Forms"
Jeffrey Insko, "How to Shut Down a Pipeline"
John Kendall, "Abstracting the Earth"
Elizabeth Barrios, "Boom, Bust, and Infrastructure Failure: Latin American Energy Humanities"
Kerry Driscoll, Ann Ryan, and Matt Seybold, "Beyond the White Suit: Mark Twain in the 21st Century"
Kerry Driscoll, “A Delicate Balance: Work and Play in Mark Twain’s Creative Process”
Caleb Wellum, "'The Energy Gap' and the Practice of History"
Alexis Schmidt, "American Exhaustion: Reading Turn-of-the-Century Literature through Energy Studies"
Brent Bellamy, "The Aesthetic Textuality of Oil"
Nathan Wolff, "Extremely Violent and Perilous Weather: On PUDDN'HEAD WILSON and Hydropower"
Kathryn Dolan, "Mining Gilt: Interrogating the Search for Coal in THE GILDED AGE"
Rachel Banner, "Marital Entropy: Domestic Science & Domestic Violence at the Dawn of Thermodynamics"
2025 Quarry Farm Symposium "Energy Studies: Keynote Event: "Everyday Ecofascism"
Thomas W. Howard, "Beyond Mental Telegraphy: Twain's Late Psychological Fiction"
Aliza Theis, "Detecting Twain in PUDDN'HEAD WILSON and THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS"
Christopher Gilbert, "The Descent of the Laughing Animal"
Bernard J. Dobski, "Twain's Critique of Divine Providence: Joan of Arc and PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS"
Jess Libow, "Mark Twain and the 'Commerce of Disease'"
American Vandal Podcast Live, "A Tale of Today"
Alicia Campbell & Steve Jordan, "Two Talks on the Restoration of the Mark Twain Study"
"A Conversation with Benjamin Griffin, editor of the new edition of PUDDN'HEAD WILSON"
Linda A. Morris, “Before There Was Twain There Was Whitcher”
Todd N. Thompson, "Seward's Real Estate Transactions": Comic Imperialism int he Reconstruction Era"
Lawrence Howe, "Skewering Gilded Age Corruption: The Visual Satire of Thomas Nast"
Teresa Prados-Torreira, "The Comic Lecturer in the Gilded Age"
Bruce Simon, "The Badge of Servitude and the Device of Race in Mark Twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne"