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The Mark Twain Circle of America will sponsor two panels at the annual American Literature Association conference, which will be held 25-28 May 2017, at Boston's Westin Copley Place Hotel.



Please send a 1 page abstract to MT Circle president Kerry Driscoll ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) on or before 7 January 2017.



Panel 1.  Mark Twain and Immigration



Papers are invited examining Twain's representation of national and cultural borders (as well as more abstract conceptual boundaries) and the various individuals crossing them-from Chinese immigrants in the Western U.S. and the Quaker City "pilgrims" in Palestine to the dynamic of ethnic imposture (Irish immigrants masquerading as "Indians" in "A Day at Niagara" and as Chinese in "John Chinaman in New York")



Panel 2.  Open Topic-New Directions in Mark Twain Studies



Papers are invited on any aspect of Twain's work and legacy.


Time is running short, act now!


--LH


Larry Howe
Professor of English & Film Studies
Department of Literature and Languages
Roosevelt University