On behalf of Co-Chairs Kerry Driscoll and Ann Ryan, the Elmira College
Center for Mark Twain Studies is pleased to announce the following
Weekend Symposium:

"Complicating Twain:  Biography, Autobiography, and the Personal
Scholar:  Remembering Michael J. Kiskis"

October 19th and 20th, 2012 at Elmira College

"Complicating Twain" will address topics relating to the biographical
and autobiographical narratives that Twain both inspired and produced,
on domesticity and Twain, including Twain's representations of the child
and of women, on the subject of the sometimes fraught relationship
between Twain and his biographers, editors, and his reading public; and
on the ways in which scholarly writing is often at odds with the call to
authenticity that underlies so much of Twain's work.  In other words, we
invite submissions that reflect not only upon the scholarly legacy of
Michael Kiskis, but that consider the wonderfully skeptical, ironic,
playful, and original voice of Michael Kiskis as well.  

Please send abstracts to Dr. Kerry Driscoll at [log in to unmask] and to
Dr. Ann M. Ryan at [log in to unmask]  Papers will be considered for
inclusion in an edition of The Mark Twain Annual dedicated to Michael
Kiskis.

The Call for Papers is available at
http://www.elmira.edu/resources/shared/pdf/academics/distinctive_program
s/twain_center/ComplicatingTwain.pdf