Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies Call For Papers Final Call Deadline: January 31, 2001 The Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies announces the Final Call for Papers for Elmira 2001: The 4th International Conference on The State of Mark Twain Studies, August 16-18, 2001. Ten page papers suitable for twenty minute presentations are invited on the following topics: Mark Twain and Visual Representation: (May include films, posters, television shows, documentaries, cartoons, illustrations) Mark Twain and the Body: (May include bodies in pain, the racialized bodies, the gendered bodies, the sexualized bodies, the transformed bodies) Mark Twain and Status: (May include economic class, social class, racial class, manners, titles, behaviors) Mark Twain and the Nation: (May include civic identities, racial identities, hybird identities, nationalism, imperialism, exceptionalism) Global Mark Twain: (Mark Twain in countries other than the United States. How is Mark Twain used in other countries?) Mark Twain: Friends and Enemies: (Loyalties to and animosities toward his contemporaries) Mark Twain: Narrative Strategies (May include structure, persona, voice, closure) Mark Twain in Pieces: (May include short stories, maxims, fragments, letters, sketches, speeches) Mark Twain: 1900-1910: (May include biography, works, crusades, self-imaging) Mark Twain in His Funniest: (. . .) Papers will be read by juries without knowledge of authorship. Send papers in duplicate to: Gretchen Sharlow, Director The Center for Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College One Park Place Elmira, NY 14901