Taylor,

Thanks for sharing the link to Alan's talk.

It was a great way to end my busiest day of classes this week.

Michael



On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:29 AM Taylor Roberts <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Congratulations to Alan Gribben for being awarded the Eugene Current-Garcia
> Award for Alabama's Distinguished Literary Scholar, which is the highest
> honor for an English professor in his state.
>
> Twainians have long been beneficiaries of Gribben's _MT's Library_ (1980
> and updates in press), editorship of the _MT Journal_ (2009-2020), and many
> other scholarly contributions to MT studies, some of which are listed in
> the award announcement at
>
> https://www.monroevilleliteraryfestival.com/post/dr-alan-gribben-selected-as-eugene-current-garcia-recipient
>
> Forum members are invited to the virtual award ceremony where Alan will
> have the opportunity to discuss how his half-century quest to research Mark
> Twain's literary resources has influenced his life:
>
> Talk Title: "Living in Mark Twain's Mind: A Fifty-Year Puzzle" by Dr. Alan
> Gribben
> Date: March 4, 2021
> Time: 6:30-7:30 PM Central Standard Time (7:30pm EST / 4:30 PST)
> Location: Zoom
> Free registration:
> https://www.monroevilleliteraryfestival.com/registration
>
> After you register they will send you the Zoom information the day before.
>
> Congratulations again to Alan!
>
> -TR
>


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Michael A. Torregrossa (he/his/him), M.A.

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Lancelot, Gawain and *Galahad*, with them *all...* Be *thou *what they
were--a *hero!* Strive forever to maintain the rule of *right*--of law and
*justice*--against those who live and rule by *might*."

Chris Claremont, "From the Holocaust--A Hero!" *Captain Britain* No. 2 (20
Oct. 1976)


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of the Medieval in Popular Culture:
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