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The spring 2023 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS), continues at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 24 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Lectures will be held each Wednesday through the end of May. The lectures are free and open to the public and recordings of the lectures will be posted to the CMTS website.
This week’s lecture features Ann M. Ryan, Professor of American Literature at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. Ryan is also the past president of the Mark Twain Circle, the former editor of The Mark Twain Annual, and co-editor of Cosmopolitan Twain (Missouri, 2008). Her research focuses primarily on issues of race and racism in Mark Twain’s life, his writings, and the culture that produced him. She is completing a book that explores these topics.
In her lecture, titled “The Dangers of Loving Mark Twain,” Ryan will discuss the difficulty of teaching the life and works of Mark Twain today. According to Ryan, currently, there are those who insist that Twain was a committed racial progressive and that any suggestion otherwise is simply the by-product of “cancel culture.” At the other extreme are those who point to Twain’s love of racial caricature and racist vocabulary and then relegate Twain to the literary dustbin, just one more white man whose privileges have expired. Ryan’s talk will explore a method of teaching that lies between these extremes. She will discuss the relevance of Mark Twain at a moment when all sorts of cultural icons–from Flannery O’Connor to Dr. Seuss–are being questioned by virtue of their racial politics, at the same time that the entire field of African American studies is being attacked and censored. However, there may be a place for Twain in an objective, honest exploration of race and racism (two separate categories) in American culture. For Ryan, if Twain is to have relevance in a 21st-century classroom, it means getting away from “St. Mark”–the white hero in the white suit–and embracing the somewhat grittier, more complicated human being that was Samuel Clemens.
The Trouble Begins Lecture Series is free and open to the public. The spring lectures will be in the Barn at Quarry Farm and will continue Wednesdays through the end of May.
Wed., May 24: “The Dangers of Loving Mark Twain” by Ann M. Ryan, Professor of American Literature at Le Moyne College.
Wed., May 31: “Mark Twain, Property, and Poetry“ by Lawrence Howe, Professor Emeritus of English and Film Studies at Roosevelt University.
Go to Spring Trouble Begins Lecture Series for recordings of previously held lectures.
In 1984, the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies initiated a lecture series, The Trouble Begins at Eight lecture series. The title came from the handbill advertising Mark Twain's October 2, 1866 lecture presented at Maguire's Academy of Music in San Francisco. The first lectures were presented in 1985. By invitation, Mark Twain scholars present lectures in the fall and spring of each year, in the Barn at Quarry Farm. All lectures are free and open to the public.
