Lecture Series Audio Recordings

Gary F. Scharnhorst; Distinguished Professor of English, University of New Mexico 
 Mark Twain Interviews; The Final Report 
Download   the audio recording |23MB | MP3 format   

Terrell Dempsey; Independent Scholar 
 Searching for Jim: Slavery in Sam Clemens's World
Download   the audio recording |19MB | MP3 format  

Laura Skandera Trombley; President, Pitzer College
Mark Twain's Annus Horribilis of 1908
Download   the audio recording | 22MB | MP3 format  

Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Professor of English and Director of American Studies, Stanford University
The “War-Prayer” Revisited: A Text for Our Time
Download the audio recording | 16.8MB | MP3 format 

Hal Bush, Associate Professor of English, Saint Louis University
Mark Twain and Spiritual Crisis 
Download the audio recording | 20.9MB | MP3 format 

Joe Fulton, Associate Professor of English, Baylor University
The Reverend Mark Twain: “This Career of Sparkling Holiness, Usefulness, and Health-Giving Theological Travel”
Download the audio recording | 20.9MB | MP3 format  

J. Michael Pratt, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, Elmira College
A Fossil Guide to Mark Twain's Essay "Was the World Made for Man?"
Download   the audio recording | 12.8MB | MP3 format

Philip Ashley Fanning, Independent Scholar, San Francisco, CA
Mark Twain, Orion Clemens, and the Mysterious Stranger
Download   the audio recording | 16.5MB | MP3 format

Donald Hoffman, Independent Scholar, Kansas City, Missouri
Sailing to Bermuda with Mark Twain
Download   the audio recording | 18.9MB | MP3 format

Stephen Railton, Professor of English, University of Virginia
Mark Twain, Virtually
Download   the audio recording | 20.8MB | MP3 format

 

David Caplan, Associate Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University
“That Grotesque and Laughable Word, Patriotism”: Rethinking Mark Twain on Patriotism
Download   the audio recording | 18.8 MB | MP3 format

Steve Courtney, Independent Scholar, Hartford, CT
Joe Twichell’s War: How Mark Twain’s Good Friend and Confidant Handled Three Tough Years in the Army of the Potomac
Download   the audio recording | 16.7 MB | MP3 format

Bruce Michelson, Professor of American Literature, University of Illinois
Mark Twain and the American Media Revolution
Download   the audio recording | 19.4 MB | MP3 format