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The Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) at Elmira College announced the schedule for the 2025 Park Church Summer Lecture Series, which takes place at the historic Park Church, known for its architecture and connection to Mark Twain and his close family and friends. Located at 208 W. Gray Street, the lectures are free and open to the public. They begin at 7:00 p.m. and will be held on June 25, July 9, and July 16.
The June 25 lecture, entitled “Descent of the Laughing Animal,” features Christopher Gilbert, Associate Professor of English in Communication & Media at Assumption University. Gilbert will discuss Twain’s comparison of humans to other animals that laugh. He will look at how Twain’s interest in nonhuman animals impacted his sense of humor and suggests that humans may be the most laughable of all the animals.
The July 9 lecture, entitled “Detecting Twain in Puddn’head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins,” features Aliza Theis, a PhD student in the English Department at UC Berkeley. Her talk will explore the relationship between racial and authorial identity making in Puddn’Head Wilson and its companion publication, Those Extraordinary Twins. In writing Puddn’Head, Twain adjusted the novel to become a detective story but kept the content he removed and published it separately, and justified the double publication with several remarks. Theis will discuss how these comments and his decisions of what to keep provide insight into Twain’s desire to curate his “persona.”
The July 16 lecture, entitled “Beyond Mental Telegraphy: Twain’s Late Psychological Fiction” features Thomas W. Howard, Assistant Professor of Humanities at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Howard will suggest that Twain’s late fiction has a significant place in the emerging field of psychology, revealing how his fictional “experiments,” such as transforming readers into participants in psychological research, contribute to broader cultural conversations about mental life in the pre-Freudian United States. His late works suggest that literature served, and continues to serve, as an essential laboratory for testing ideas about the mind.
The Park Church Lecture Series is sponsored by CMTS and Park Church. The Series, along with The Trouble Begins Series, is made possible by the support of the Mark Twain Foundation and generous gifts from individual donors.
